Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Full reference: A. V. Alexeev. 2008. New Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) and Similar Beetles from the Cretaceous and Early Paleogene of Asia. Paleontological Journal 42:53-59

Belongs to Metabuprestium according to A. V. Alexeev 2008

Sister taxa: Metabuprestium arkharense, Metabuprestium bayssense, Metabuprestium bontsaganense, Metabuprestium cretaceum, Metabuprestium cuneomaculatum, Metabuprestium dundulense, Metabuprestium furcatorugosum, Metabuprestium granulipenne, Metabuprestium latipenne, Metabuprestium minutum, Metabuprestium nobile, Metabuprestium ovale, Metabuprestium oyunchaiense, Metabuprestium shartologoiense, Metabuprestium vitimense

Type specimen: PIN 4988/17, an elytra (isolated left elytron). Its type locality is Ust’-Kivda locality, which is in a Danian lacustrine horizon in the Tsagayan (Upper) Formation of the Russian Federation.

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Average measurements (in mm): elytron 11.9 x 3.1