Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Alternative combination: Eoanthaxites rubididorsum

Full reference: H. Haupt. 1956. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der eozänen Arthopodenfauna des Geiseltales. Nova Acta Leopoldina 18(128):1-89

Belongs to Anthaxia according to C. L. Bellamy 2008

See also Haupt 1956

Sister taxa: Anthaxia beneckei, Anthaxia buschi, Anthaxia carbonaria, Anthaxia carniolica, Anthaxia crassicollis, Anthaxia deleta, Anthaxia doris, Anthaxia eocenica, Anthaxia exhumata, Anthaxia geiseltalensis, Anthaxia haupti, Anthaxia maculipennis, Anthaxia pallida, Anthaxia prasina, Anthaxia primaeva, Anthaxia punctifera, Anthaxia quadrimaculata, Anthaxia ventricosa, Anthaxia viridicyanea, Anthaxia weidlichi

Type specimen: GPIUH G55/39, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Geiseltal (GPIUH collection), which is in a Lutetian mire/swamp lignite/shale in Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Geiseltal (GPIUH collection)

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