Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1921. Die Insektenreste aus dem Lutetien von Messel bei Darmstadt. Abhandlungen der Hessischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Darmstadt 7:2-15

Belongs to Ancylochira according to F. Meunier 1921

Sister taxa: Ancylochira deleta, Ancylochira eocaenica, Ancylochira gracilis, Ancylochira heydenii, Ancylochira metallica, Ancylochira octomaculata, Ancylochira oligostriata, Ancylochira pinguis, Ancylochira prompta, Ancylochira rusticana, Ancylochira seyfriedii, Ancylochira striatopunctata, Ancylochira violaceocyanescens

Type specimen: 4072, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Museum Darmstadt Collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

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Average measurements (in mm): body 22.0 x 10.0, elytron 15.0 x 5.0