Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Buprestidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bellamy 2008, Bouchard et al. 2011, Hörnschemeyer and Wedmann 1994, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Wappler 2003, Weidlich 1987 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: Agrilinae, Agrilium, Ancylochira pinguis, Ancylochira striatopunctata, Ancylochira violaceocyanescens, Andakhudukia, Archelater, Chrysobothrites, Chrysochroa punctata, Chrysochroinae, Coroebus, Ctenicerium, Dictyorachys, Eurynucha, Eurythyreites, Iridotaenia hovassei, Julodinae, Macronotus, Mesostigmodera, Parathyreinae, Planocoleus, Polycestinae, Proctobuprestis, Stigmodera unicolor
Subtaxa: Anthaxiini Brachyspathus Brevista Buprestini Buprestites Chrysobothrini Cretothyrea Eolampra Fuesslinia Glaphyropteridae Illolampra Jurabuprestis Kzylordynia Lomatus Melanophilini Metabuprestium Micranthaxia Protogenia Pseudothyrea Stigmoderini Thomassetiini Trapezitergum
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Colorado collection)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of China (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Germany (7), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Azerbaijan (1), France (2), Germany (6), the United Kingdom (1)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), France (1), Germany (18), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Colorado)
• Paleocene of France (1), Greenland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Cretaceous of China (1), India (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (8)
• Jurassic of Germany (2), Kazakhstan (2), Switzerland (1)
Total: 79 collections including 171 occurrences