Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Synonym: Elater oweni Giebel 1856 [objective synonym]

Full reference: J. O. Westwood. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10:378-396

Belongs to Ctenicerium according to A. Handlirsch 1906

See also Giebel 1856 and Westwood 1854

Sister taxa: Ctenicerium blissus, Ctenicerium gigas, Ctenicerium stygnus, Ctenicerium valgus

Type specimens:

• Ctenicerium hylastes: Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie coll.), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom
• Elater oweni:

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie coll.)

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