Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Full reference: A. V. Alexeev. 1996. Buprestid beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of CIS. Paleontological Journal 30:559-565

Belongs to Metabuprestium according to A. V. Alexeev 1996

Sister taxa: 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 ustkivdense, Metabuprestium vitimense

Type specimen: PIN 2055/183(184), an elytra. Its type locality is Arkhara (PIN collection 2055), which is in a Danian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Tsagayan Formation of the Russian Federation.

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Average measurements (in mm): elytron 8.70 x 2.70