Buprestites falconeri Heer 1862 (jewel beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Full reference: O. Heer. 1862. On the fossil flora of Bovey Tracey. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 152:1039-1086

Belongs to Buprestites according to C. L. Bellamy 2008

See also Heer 1862

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Divett potteries, Bovey Tracey, which is in an Oligocene pond siltstone in the Bovey Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Divett potteries, Bovey Tracey

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