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Buprestites purbecensis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Taxonomy
Buprestites purbecensis was named by Cockerell (1920). Its type specimen is BMNH I.10423, an elytra, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bagshot Beds, Studland Bay, Isle of Purbeck, which is in a Lutetian pond claystone in the Poole Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Buprestites purbecensis Cockerell p. 69 fig. 6
2008Buprestites purbecensis Bellamy p. 38

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyBuprestoidea
familyBuprestidae()
subfamilyBuprestinae
genusBuprestites
speciespurbecensis

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 purbecensis Cockerell 1920
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available