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Buprestis
Buprestis is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, the jewel beetles. As of 2011 there were 78 described species distributed across most of the world's ecozones except parts of Africa and Antarctica.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Cypriacis
subgenusCypriacis
Buprestis
subgenusBuprestis
Knulliobuprestis
subgenusKnulliobuprestis
Ancylocheira
subgenusAncylocheira
Stereosa
subgenusStereosa
Nelsonocheira
subgenusNelsonocheira
Yamina
subgenusYamina
Akiyamaia
subgenusAkiyamaia
Orthocheira
subgenusOrthocheira
Pseudyamina
subgenusPseudyamina
Buprestis heydeni
speciesBuprestis heydeni
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 87131.