Buprestites exstinctus Heer 1847 (jewel beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Alternative combination: Buprestites exstincta

Full reference: O. Heer. 1847. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Erster Theil: Käfer 1-229

Belongs to Buprestites according to C. L. Bellamy 2008

See also Heer 1847

Sister taxa: Buprestites aeneoviolacea, Buprestites agriloides, Buprestites alutacea, Buprestites carbonum, Buprestites debilis, Buprestites falconeri, 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 Oeningen (Carlsruhe collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oeningen (Carlsruhe collection)

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