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Buprestites minnae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Taxonomy
Buprestis minnae was named by Giebel (1856). It is an impression. Its type locality is Schwarze Minna pit, Eisleben, which is in a Chattian terrestrial claystone in Germany.

It was recombined as Perotis minnae by Pongrácz (1935); it was recombined as Buprestites minnae by Giebel (1856), Handlirsch (1907), Haupt (1950), Bellamy (2008).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Buprestis minnae Giebel p. 79
1856Buprestites minnae Giebel p. 384 figs. Pl 5, fig 1
1907Buprestites minnae Handlirsch p. 755
1935Perotis minnae Pongrácz p. 563 figs. Pl 7, fig 4; text-fig 6B
1950Buprestites minnae Haupt p. 83
2008Buprestites minnae Bellamy p. 38

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyBuprestoidea
familyBuprestidae()
subfamilyBuprestinae
genusBuprestites
speciesminnae()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Buprestites minnae Giebel 1856
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Chattian or 48.07000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lutetian48.07 - 41.03Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) Perotis minnae (155693)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04Germany Buprestis minnae (type locality: 147345)