†Sphenoptera bogatshevi Richter 1947 (metallic wood-boring beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Full reference: A. A. Richter. 1947. Nekopaemye zlatki iz binagadinskikh kirovykh sloev (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Doklady Akademii Nauk Armyanskoy SSR 6:147-150
Belongs to Sphenoptera according to A. A. Richter 1947
Sister taxa: Sphenoptera eocaenica, Sphenoptera gigantea, Sphenoptera knopi, Sphenoptera lapidaria, Sphenoptera martynovi, Sphenoptera metallica, Sphenoptera minuta
Type specimen: Its type locality is Binagady asphalt lake (Bogachev collection), which is in a Pleistocene tar tar in Azerbaijan
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Binagady asphalt lake (Bogachev collection)
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