Metabuprestium sibiricum Alexeev 2009 (jewel beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Full reference: A. V. Alexeev. 2009. New jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the Cretaceous of Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 43:277-281

Belongs to Metabuprestium according to A. V. Alexeev 2009

Sister taxa: Metabuprestium arkagalense, Metabuprestium arkharense, Metabuprestium bayssense, Metabuprestium bontsaganense, Metabuprestium cretaceum, Metabuprestium cuneomaculatum, Metabuprestium dundulense, Metabuprestium furcatorugosum, Metabuprestium granulipenne, Metabuprestium ichbogdoense, Metabuprestium latipenne, Metabuprestium minutum, Metabuprestium nobile, Metabuprestium ovale, Metabuprestium oyunchaiense, Metabuprestium shartologoiense, Metabuprestium ustkivdense, Metabuprestium vitimense

Type specimen: PIN 1832/142, an elytra. Its type locality is Arkagala locality, Tal-Yuryakh Creek (PIN collection 1832), which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Arkagalinskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Arkagala locality, Tal-Yuryakh Creek (PIN collection 1832)

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