Buprestis deleta Heer 1847 (jewel beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Alternative combination: Ancylochira deleta

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

Belongs to Buprestis according to C. L. Bellamy 2008

See also Heer 1847, Massalongo 1856 and Omboni 1886

Sister taxa: Buprestis (Ancylochira), Buprestis (Cypriacis), Buprestis alemanica, Buprestis auratostriata, Buprestis concinna, Buprestis cupreostriata, Buprestis florissantensis, Buprestis gracilis, Buprestis griseomicans, Buprestis hauboldi, Buprestis heydeni, Buprestis kudiensis, Buprestis margineaurata, Buprestis megistarche, 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: 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:

• Miocene of Germany (1 collection)

• Eocene of Italy (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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