Mesoschizopus Cai, Ślipiński et Huang, 2015

Genus Mesoschizopus Cai, Ślipiński et Huang, 2015

Mesoschizopus elegans Cai, Ślipiński et Huang, 2015 – Yixian Formation (Barremian, early Cretaceous ); China

Discussion

The superfamily Buprestoidea consists of the families Schizopodidae and Buprestidae . The oldest records of the subfamily Parathyreinae of the Buprestidae are from the Middle Jurassic, the Bathonian of the Nizhegorodskaya Oblast (Gorky Geological Profile) of Russia ( Alexeev 1994) and from the Callovian of the Middle Jurassic to the Oxfordian of the late Jurassic, the Jiulongshan Formation of China ( Pan et al. 2011). The Buprestidae are also represented by several species described from beetles ( Jiang et al. 2021; Li et al. 2023) and larvae ( Haug et al. 2021; Molino-Olmedo 2023) in Burmese amber.

The modern distribution is limited to south-eastern North America, but fossils are only known from Eurasia ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ). It is thought that the group originated in Asia and later entered the New World in the Paleocene or Eocene, where it has survived to the present day.

Acknowledgements

The author is grateful to the anonymous reviewers who helped to improve the manuscript.

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