Ctenicerium stygnus Westwood 1854

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Alternative combination: Buprestium stygnus

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 Westwood 1854

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

Type specimen: 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

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

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