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Microcastalia is a genus of metallic wood-boring beetles in the family Buprestidae. There are at least two described species in Microcastalia.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderColeoptera
  5. FamilyBuprestidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
2
Family
Buprestidae
Collections
WAM, NMV
Recorded in
Australia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Buprestidae
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taxon name
Microcastalia
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Microcastalia
taxon author citation
Heller, 1891
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Microcastalia is a genus of metallic wood-boring beetles in the family Buprestidae. There are at least two described species in Microcastalia.

==Species== These two species belong to the genus Microcastalia. Microcastalia globithorax (Thomson, 1878) Microcastalia scintillans (Carter, 1924)

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