Buprestites
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Buprestites is a fossil genus of beetle
s in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:
Beetle
Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...
s in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:
- Buprestites agriloides Heer, 1862
- Buprestites alutacea (Germar, 1837)
- Buprestites carbonum (Germar, 1837)
- Buprestites debilis Heer, 1860
- Buprestites exstinctus Heer, 1847
- Buprestites falconeri Heer, 1862
- Buprestites heeri Scudder, 1900
- Buprestites major (Germar, 1837)
- Buprestites minnae Giebel, 1856
- Buprestites oeningensis Heer, 1847
- Buprestites purbecensis Cockerell, 1920
- Buprestites viridis Meunier, 1898
- Buprestites xylographica (Germar, 1849)