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Anthaxia

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Description

Anthaxia is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthaxia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	10121944	https://www.gbif.org/species/10121944
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	205333	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=205333

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Buprestidae : Anthaxia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Buprestidae : Anthaxia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

doubtful

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Elateriformia	Crowson 1960
superfamily	Buprestoidea	Leach 1815
family	Buprestidae
subfamily	Buprestinae	Leach 1815
tribe	Anthaxiini	Gory and Laporte 1839
genus	Anthaxia	Bílý 2019

Scientific Name

Anthaxia Bílý, 2019

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Anthaxia	genus	belongs to Buprestidae	stated with evidence	Piton, 1940
Anthaxia	genus	belongs to Buprestinae	stated with evidence	Weidlich, 1987
Anthaxia	genus	belongs to Anthaxiini	stated with evidence	Bellamy, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (9.1%)

First Recorded Appearance

59.2 - 56.0 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune)

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthaxia

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anthaxia beneckei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Anthaxia buschi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Anthaxia carbonaria ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Anthaxia carniolica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Anthaxia crassicollis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	12.7 Ma Miocene	12.7 Ma Miocene
Anthaxia deleta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Anthaxia doris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	12.7 Ma Miocene	12.7 Ma Miocene
Anthaxia eocenica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Anthaxia exhumata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Anthaxia geiseltalensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Anthaxia haupti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Anthaxia maculipennis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Anthaxia pallida ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	12.7 Ma Miocene	12.7 Ma Miocene
Anthaxia prasina species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Anthaxia primaeva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Anthaxia punctifera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Anthaxia quadrimaculata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Anthaxia rubididorsa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Anthaxia ventricosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Anthaxia viridicyanea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Anthaxia weidlichi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1829	Anthaxia Eschscholtz
1940	Anthaxia Piton p. 191
1950	Eoanthaxites Haupt p. 63
1956	Eoanthaxites Haupt p. 39
1987	Anthaxia Weidlich p. 45
2008	Anthaxia Bellamy
2011	Anthaxia Bouchard et al. p. 283

References

Piton L. (1940) , Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune), 1-303

Haupt H. (1950) Die Käfer (Coleoptera) aus der eozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltales, Geologica 6, 1-168

Haupt H. (1956) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der eozänen Arthopodenfauna des Geiseltales, Nova Acta Leopoldina 18 128, 1-89

Weidlich M. (1987) Systematik und Taxonomie der Buprestidae des mitteleozänen Geiseltales (Insecta, Coleoptera), Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften 12, 29-52

Bellamy C. L. (2008) , A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 3: Buprestinae: Pterobothrini through Agrilinae: Rhaeboscelina, 1260-1931

Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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