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JEWEL BEETLES
(Coleoptera: Buprestoidea)

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2. Genus BLEPHARUM Thomson, 1878
[Neuter - 5 species - Australian, Oriental regions]

Blepharum Thomson 1878b:39; Fairmaire 1881:264; Kerremans 1892:84; 1893a:112; 1902:19; 1905:390; Obenberger 1926:36; 1930:81; Cobos 1955a:4; Obenberger 1958d:488; Cobos 1975:97; Bellamy 1985b:414; 2003b:26.
Type species: Blepharum nigrum Thomson, 1878 (by monotypy).
Blepharum Deyrolle (nomen nudum): Thomson 1878b:39.
Euleptodema Obenberger 1930:81 (nom. nov. for Blepharum Thomson, 1878, nom. superfl. Blepharum Hübner 1808 ruled invalid: ICZN 1966a); 1936b:106; Cobos 1955a:4; Obenberger 1958d:488; Cobos 1975:97 (spp. key); Bellamy 1985b:414; Hołyński 1992c:134; 1993c:12, 19; Bellamy 2003b:26.
Type species: Euleptodema ceramense Obenberger, 1928 (original designation).

  
       
    4. coeruleipes Fairmaire 1878a:278; 1881:264 (redescription); Kerremans 1885:134; 1892:84; 1902:19; 1905:393; Obenberger 1926:36; Cobos 1975:102.
Fiji Distribution: Viti Levu
Type: MNHN
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