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Buprestis octomaculata
Taxonomy
Ancylochira octomaculata was named by Piton (1940). Its type specimen is Coll. Piton 85, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.
It was recombined as Buprestis octomaculata by Balazuc and Descarpentries (1964).
It was recombined as Buprestis octomaculata by Balazuc and Descarpentries (1964).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1940 | Ancylochira octomaculata Piton pp. 189-190 figs. 55-56 |
1964 | Buprestis octomaculata Balazuc and Descarpentries p. 55 |
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†Buprestis octomaculata Piton 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available