Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Synonym: Eoanthaxites pumilus Haupt 1956 [replaced name]
Full reference: S. Bílý. 1996. New species of Anthaxia and some nomenclatorical changes in Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Folia Heyrovskyana 4:21-33
Belongs to Anthaxia according to C. L. Bellamy 2008
See also Bílý 1996 and Haupt 1956
Sister taxa: Anthaxia beneckei, Anthaxia buschi, Anthaxia carbonaria, Anthaxia carniolica, Anthaxia crassicollis, Anthaxia deleta, Anthaxia doris, Anthaxia eocenica, Anthaxia exhumata, Anthaxia geiseltalensis, Anthaxia haupti, Anthaxia maculipennis, Anthaxia pallida, Anthaxia prasina, Anthaxia primaeva, Anthaxia punctifera, Anthaxia quadrimaculata, Anthaxia rubididorsa, Anthaxia ventricosa, Anthaxia viridicyanea
Type specimens:
- Anthaxia weidlichi: GPIUH G55/34, an exoskeleton
- Eoanthaxites pumilus: GPIUH G55/34, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Geiseltal (GPIUH collection), which is in a Lutetian mire/swamp lignite/shale in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Geiseltal (GPIUH collection) (Eocene of Germany)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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