Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Alternative combination: Buprestis xylographica
Full reference: E. F. Germar. 1849. Ueber einige Insekten aus Tertiärbildungen. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 1:52-66
Belongs to Buprestites according to C. L. Bellamy 2008
See also Germar 1849 and Handlirsch 1907
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 minnae, Buprestites obscura, Buprestites oeningensis, Buprestites purbecensis, Buprestites splendida, Buprestites viridis
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Stöschen near Linz (Oligocene of Austria)
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