Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Full reference: A. V. Alexeev. 1995. New taxa of metallic wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from the Mesozoic of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 30:310-317

Belongs to Metabuprestium according to A. V. Alexeev 1995

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

Type specimen: PIN 3559/5774, an elytra. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559), which is in a Hauterivian/Barremian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

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Average measurements (in mm): elytron 14.0 x 3.5