Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1926. Some Tertiary fossil insects. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 18:313-324
Belongs to Buprestis according to C. L. Bellamy 2008
See also Cockerell 1926
Sister taxa: Buprestis (Ancylochira), Buprestis (Cypriacis), Buprestis alemanica, Buprestis auratostriata, Buprestis concinna, Buprestis cupreostriata, Buprestis deleta, Buprestis florissantensis, Buprestis gracilis, Buprestis griseomicans, Buprestis hauboldi, Buprestis heydeni, Buprestis kudiensis, Buprestis margineaurata, Buprestis meyeri, Buprestis octomaculata, Buprestis pongraczi, Buprestis pristina, Buprestis redempta, Buprestis rusticana, Buprestis saxigena, Buprestis scudderi, Buprestis senecta, Buprestis seorsus, Buprestis sepulta, Buprestis seyfriedi, Buprestis tertiaria, Buprestis tincta, Buprestis tradita, Buprestis viridis, Buprestis viridistriatus
Type specimen: BMNH In.26200, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (BMNH Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant (BMNH Collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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