Buprestites minnae Giebel 1856 (jewel beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Alternative combinations: Buprestis minnae, Perotis minnae

Full reference: C. Giebel. 1856. Insectenreste aus den Braunkohlenschichten bei Eisleben. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaft 7:384-386

Belongs to Buprestites according to C. L. Bellamy 2008

See also Giebel 1856, Giebel 1856, Handlirsch 1907, Haupt 1950 and Pongrácz 1935

Sister taxa: Buprestites aeneoviolacea, Buprestites agriloides, Buprestites alutacea, Buprestites carbonum, Buprestites debilis, Buprestites exstinctus, Buprestites falconeri, Buprestites goniaspis, Buprestites heeri, Buprestites lineatocollis, Buprestites major, Buprestites obscura, Buprestites oeningensis, Buprestites purbecensis, Buprestites splendida, Buprestites viridis, Buprestites xylographica

Type specimen: Its type locality is Schwarze Minna pit, Eisleben, which is in a Chattian terrestrial claystone in Germany

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Germany (1 collection)

• Eocene of Germany (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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