Buprestis splendens | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Buprestidae |
Genus: | Buprestis |
Species: | B. splendens
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Binomial name | |
Buprestis splendens (Fabricius, 1775)
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Buprestis splendens is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae.[1] It has a wide but scattered distribution from Western Europe to Russia; it is now extinct in Germany, Austria and probably Ukraine; it survives at three localities in Spain, two localities in Basilicata (Italy), Russia, Poland, southwestern Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Greece.[1] It lives in sun-exposed Pinus forest, and is threatened with extinction by logging.[1][2] This species is listed on Appendix II of the Bern Convention and Annex II and IV of the EU Habitats Directive.[1]