BMNH Buprestidae Types
The Natural History Museum (British Museum of Natural History), London (website)

There are digital photos for each of the following types; dorsal habitus view only. The original
photographs were taken during several visits to the museum starting in 1983, again in 1987
and later in the late 1990s. All were 35 mm slides which have been scanned, with some resolution
loss from trying to correct the dark images.

A complete Excel spreadsheet of the BMNH buprestid types is available here

   
    HT - Holotype, PT - Paratype, ST - Syntype , CT - Cotype, T -Type, status unclear or unresolved
    Slide number (BM*), Taxon, Author, type category
   
         
 

BM1 - view slide
Aaata finchi (Waterhouse) HT

BM2 - view slide
Sternocera sternicornis var. linearis Kerremans HT?

BM3 - view slide
Sternocera multipunctata Saunders HT
Sternocera ruficornis Saunders HT

BM4 - view slide
Sternocera ruficornis var. kerremansi Kerremans HT

BM5 - view slide
Sternocera aequisignata Saunder HT
Sternocera punctatofoveata Saunder HT

BM6 - view slide
Sternocera dasypleura Kollar

BM7 - view slide
Sternocera latesignata Kerremans HT

BM8 - view slide
Sternocera brahmina Chevrolat HT
Sternocera nitens Kerremans HT

BM9 - view slide
Xenopsis laevis Saunders HT

BM10 - view slide
Ancylotela oculata Waterhouse HT

BM11 - view slide
Armenosoma atrum Waterhouse HT
Evagora amorpha L & G
Genestia steelae Théry HT

BM12 - view slide
Blepharum maculatum Théry HT MS?

BM13 - view slide
Phrixia vittaticollis Waterhouse

BM14 - view slide
Phrixia auricollis Laporte & Gory HT

BM15 - view slide
Paraphrixia purpurea (Olivier) HT

BM16 - view slide
Paracupta flavofoveata Saunders
Paracupta deplanchei Fairmaire

BM17 - view slide
Paracupta sexmaculata Laporte & Gory
Paracupta convexa Montrouzier

BM18 - view slide
Paracupta meyeri Kerremans HT
Paracupta lateimpressa Fairmaire ST

BM19 - view slide
Paracupta hoscheki Obenb.
Paracupta foveicollis Saunders ST

BM20 - view slide
Paracupta flaviventris (Heer)
    (= P. taciturna Saunders) HT
Paracupta flaviventris var. albilatera Fairm.

BM21 - view slide
Paracupta aeneiventris Saunders HT
Paracupta anomala Fairmaire HT

BM22 - view slide
Paracupta prasina (Heer)
    (= Chrysodema louisa White HT)
    (= P. hypocala Fairmaire HT)

BM23 - view slide
Paracupta artensis (Montrouzier)
Paracupta aeneicollis Saunders HT

BM24 - view slide
Paracupta aurofoveata Saunders HT
Paracupta auricollis Kerremans HT

BM25 - view slide
Paracupta pisciformis Kerremans HT
Paracupta aruensis Kerremans HT

BM26 - view slide
Paracupta isabellina Kerremans HT
Paracupta leveri Théry HT

BM27 - view slide
Paracupta xanthocera Deyrolle
Paracupta reunelli Holynski HT MS?

BM28 - view slide
Gelaeus walkeri Waterhouse HT
Gelaeus cupriventris Kerremans ST
Gelaeus erronea Holynski MS?
Gelaeus walkeri wetteriana Théry PT

BM29 - view slide
Pseudochrysodema schmeltzii Saunders HT
Pseudochrysodema badenii Saunders HT

BM30 - view slide
Thymedes flavicornis Saunders HT
Thymedes flavicornis bifoveolatus Théry HT

BM31 - view slide
Chrysodema elongata Kerremans HT
Chrysodema andamana Kerremans HT
Chrysodema pyrothorax (Snellen van Vollenhoven)

BM32 - view slide
Scaptelytra sulphureovittata Fahraeus
Scaptelytra oculicollis Kerremans ST

BM33 - view slide
Evides intermedia Saunders HT
Evides triangularis Thomson
Evides elegans (Fabricius) T?
Evides aenea Kerremans HT

BM34 - view slide
Evides kerremansi Fairmaire HT
Evides kraatzi Kerremans HT
Evides gambiensis Laporte & Gory

BM35 - view slide
Lamprocheila maillei Laporte & Gory

BM36 - view slide
Blepharum coerulipes Fairmaire HT

BM37 - view slide
Paracupta marginipennis Saunders ST
Paracupta evansi Théry ST

BM38 - view slide
Chrysodema dohrnii Saunders HT
Chrysodema fuscitarsis Kerremans LT
Chrysodema wallacei Deyrolle HT
Chrysodema impressicollis Saunders

BM39 - view slide
Chrysodema rubrooculata Théry CT
Chrysodema doriana Dohrn
Chrysodema intercostata Saunders HT
Chrysodema costata Thomson

BM40 - view slide
Chrysodema mniszechi Deyrolle
Chrysodema sibuyanella Fisher
Chrysodema swierstrae Lansberg

BM41 - view slide
Chrysodema lewisi Saunders HT
Chrysodema purpureicollis Saunders HT
Chrysodema adjuncta Saunders HT

BM42 - view slide
Chrysodema variipennis Saunders HT
Chrysodema robusta Deyrolle T
Chrysodema aurostriata Saunders HT
Chrysodema aurostriata var. coomani Théry PT

BM43 - view slide
Paracupta (?) laevissima Kerremans HT
Chrysodema pyrosticta Snellen von Vollenhoeven
Chrysodema fucata Deyrolle
Chrysodema viridimicans Deyrolle

BM44 - view slide
Chrysodema deyrollei Saunders HT
Chrysodema roseiventris Kerremans T
Chrysodema purpureoimpressa Deyrolle

BM45 - view slide
Chrysodema manillarum Thomson CT
Chrysodema antennata Saunders HT
Chrysodema hebes Kerremans T
Chrysodema yerburyi Waterhouse T

BM46 - view slide
Chrysodema fulgida Kerremans HT
Chrysodema westwoodi Deyrolle
Chrysodema jansoni Deyrolle
Chrysodema auroplagiata Deyrolle
Chrysodema occulta Waterhouse HT

BM47 - view slide
Chrysodema ventralis Waterhouse HT
Chrysodema navicularis Waterhouse HT
Chrysodema simplex Waterhouse HT
Chrysodema subfasciata Carter
Chrysodema lottini Boisduval

BM48 - view slide
Chrysodema aurofoveata Guérin-Ménéville
Chrysodema aurofoveata var. aurovittata Théry PT
Chrysodema pacifica Holynski MS?
Chrysodema dohertyi Holynski MS?

BM49 - view slide
Chrysodema melanesiae Holynski MS
Chrysodema radians Guérin-Ménéville
Chrysodema mollucana Deyrolle

BM50 - view slide
Chalcotaenia lamberti Laporte & Gory
Chalcophorotaenia elongata (Waterhouse) HT
Chalcophorotaenia martinii (Saunders) HT

BM51 - view slide
Pseudotaenia waterhousei van de Poll
    (= laeta Waterhouse 1884 HT)
Pseudotaenia superba Saunders HT
Pseudotaenia ajax Saunders HT

BM52 - view slide
Chalcophorotaenia australasiae (Saunders) HT
Chalcophorotaenia occidentalis (Waterhouse) HT
Chalcophorotaenia angulipennis (Blackburn) HT

BM53 - view slide
Chalcophorotaenia quadriimpressa (Waterhouse) HT
Chalcophorotaenia boucardi (Théry) CT
Chalcophorotaenia sulciventris (Blackburn) HT

BM54 - view slide
Pseudotaenia quadrisignata Saunders HT
Pseudotaenia salamandra Thomson (= vittata Waterhouse HT)

BM55 - view slide
Chalcophorotaenia cerata (Kerremans) HT
Chalcophorotaenia cuprascens (Waterhouse) HT (= australis Fairm.)
Chalcophorotaenia lata (Waterhouse 1881) HT
Chalcophorotaenia beltanae (Blackburn) HT
Chalcophorotaenia exilis (Blackburn) HT

BM56 - view slide
Nipponbuprestis querceti (Saunders) HT
Afrophorella africana Thomson (= telekyi Fairm. HT)

BM57 - view slide
Callistroma oxypyga Fairmaire HT
Paracupta samoensis Blair HT

BM58 - view slide
Metataenia cupreosplendens Kerremans HT
Metataenia capitata Kerremans HT
Metataenia pagdeni Théry HT
Metataenia impressipennis Théry
Metataenia meeki Théry ST

BM59 - view slide
Mixochlorus suturalis Waterhouse HT
Mixochlorus lateralis Waterhouse HT
Peronaemis thoracicus Waterhouse HT

BM60 - view slide
Aristosoma suturale Thunberg
Aristosoma crassum Waterhouse HT
Jakovleviola strandi Obenberger ST
Exagistus igniceps Deyrolle
Exagistus brunneus Fisher T

BM61 - view slide
Pagdeniella nigroviolacea Théry T
Thomassetia natalensis Théry T
Thomassetia semireticulata Chevrolat T

BM62 - view slide
Lampra semperi Saunders HT
Touzalinia psilopteroides Théry PT

BM63 - view slide
Scintillatrix croesus Obenberger
Scintillatrix blairi Bourgoin HT
Scintillatrix bedoci Bourgoin HT
Scintillatrix balcanica var. ottomana Obenb. (= bella)

BM64 - view slide
Scintillatrix sarrauti Bourgoin ST
Scintillatrix beauchemei Bourgoin PT
Scintillatrix magnifica Kerremans HT
Scintillatrix subangulosa Fairmaire HT

BM65 - view slide
Scintillatrix tonkinea Kerremans HT
Scintillatrix solieri Laporte & Gory
Scintillatrix turki Ganglbauer
Scintillatrix nadezhdae Semenov

BM66 - view slide
Scintillatrix leoparda Deyrolle
Scintillatrix pubescens Fisher
Scintillatrix sexspinosa Thomson
Scintillatrix nigrofasciata Saunders HT

BM67 - view slide
Haplotrinchus viridis Deyrolle
Haplotrinchus viridula Olivier (= philippinensis Obenberger)
Haplotrinchus splendens Waterhouse HT

 

 

   

BM68 - view slide
Haplotrinchus inaequalis Deyrolle
Haplotrinchus aurocuprea Kerremans HT
Haplotrinchus pyrochora Fairmaire ST
Haplotrinchus marginifossa Thomson
Haplotrinchus manni Théry PT

BM69 - view slide
Dicercomorpha mutabilis Saunders HT
Dicercomorpha fasciata Waterhouse T?
Dicercomorpha interrupta Deyrolle
Dicercomorpha subcincta Deyrolle

BM70 - view slide
Dicercomorpha farinosa Thomson
Dicercomorpha cupreomaculata Saunders HT

BM71 - view slide
Dicercomorpha javanica Laporte & Gory
Dicercomorpha albosparsa Laporte & Gory
Dicercomorpha multiguttata Deyrolle
Dicercomorpha grosseguttata Thomson

BM72 - view slide
Ditriaena sexspinosa Waterhouse HT
Ditriaena purpurascens Waterhouse HT

BM73 - view slide
Nesotrinchus coeruleipennis Fairmaire HT
Nesotrinchus australis Kerremans HT

BM74 - view slide
Isophaenus parallelus Waterhouse HT
Melobasina apicalis Kerremans HT

BM75 - view slide
Aglaostola terreticollis (Pallas)
Neobuprestis peronii Laporte & Gory T (= australis Blackburn)
Neobuprestis marmorata Blackburn HT
Neobuprestis trisulcata Carter

BM76 - view slide
Spectralia viridipunctata (Thomson)
Spectralia arcuata (Laporte & Gory)
Spectralia sulcifera (Laporte & Gory)
Spectralia costulata (Laporte & Gory) T (= polystigma Chevrolat)
Spectralia albonotata (Laporte & Gory)

BM77 - view slide
Spectralia uniformis Waterhouse T
Spectralia multipunctata Olivier T
Spectralia aequalis Waterhouse ST
Spectralia elongata Laporte & Gory
Spectralia frontalis Waterhouse T

BM78 - view slide
Euryspilus chalcodes Gory & Laporte
Euryspilus australis Blackburn T
Euryspilus caudatus Théry PT

BM79 - view slide
Bubastes vagans Blackburn T
Bubastes bostrychoides Théry PT
Bubastes inconsistans Théry (= inconsistans Blackburn T)

BM80 - view slide
Bubastes laticollis Blackburn T
Bubastes subflavipennis Carter PT

BM81 - view slide
Bubastes suturalis Carter
Bubastes sphenoidea Laporte & Gory
Bubastes globicollis Thomson

BM82 - view slide
Pseudhyperantha jucunda Saunders HT
Cardiaspis pisciformis Théry PT
Cardiaspis mouhotii Saunders HT

BM83 - view slide
Neobubastes aureocincta var. scutalis Blackburn T
Neobubastes flavovittata Carter

BM84 - view slide
Chalcopoecila leyboldi Steinhal T
Pasiphae vitticollis Saunders T
Pasiphae amazonica Saunders T
Pasiphae modesta Fabricius T?

BM85 - view slide
Calodema wallacei var. blairi Théry (MS name)
Calodema wallacei Deyrolle
Calodema plebeja Jordan

BM86 - view slide
Metaxymorpha grayi Parry T
Metaxymorpha apicerubra Théry
Metaxymorpha hauseri Théry
Metaxymorpha apicalis van de Poll

BM87 - view slide
Hypostigmodera variegata Blackburn T

BM88 - view slide
Conognatha impressipennis Saunders T
Conognatha amoena Kirby ST
Conognatha biocularis Thomson
Conognatha buqueti Laporte & Gory
Conognatha bifasciata Waterhouse T

BM89 - view slide
Conognatha abdominalis Waterhouse T
Conognatha fryi Saunders T (syn. of clara Erichson)
Conognatha eximia Saunders T
Conognatha interrupta Waterhouse T

BM90 - view slide
Conognatha patricia (Klug) (= trizonata Gory & Laporte)
Conognatha haemorrhoidalis (Olivier)
Conognatha jucunda (Kirby)

BM91 - view slide
Conognatha leachi Waterhouse T
Conognatha ornata Waterhouse T
Conognatha rufoventris Waterhouse T
Conognatha splendens Waterhouse T
Conognatha blairi Hoschek T

BM92 - view slide
Cyphogastra bruyni Lansberg (= sulcicollis Kerremans T)
Cyphogastra bruyni var. nigra Kerremans

BM93 - view slide
Cyphogastra woodlarkiana Montrouzier
Cyphogastra suturalis Fabricius

BM94 - view slide
Cyphogastra ventricosa (Olivier)
Cyphogastra ventricosa var. pygmaea Kerremans

BM95 - view slide
Cyphogastra wallacei Deyrolle
Cyphogastra farinosa (Fabricius)

BM96 - view slide
Cyphogastra venerea Thomson (= macfarlani Waterhouse T)
Cyphogastra sodalis Waterhouse

BM97 - view slide
Cyphogastra venerea ssp. cooki Holynski HT MS?
Cyphogastra aberrima Kerremans

BM98 - view slide
Cyphogastra atra Holynski HT MS?
Cyphogastra canaliculata Théry CT (= biroi ?)

BM99 - view slide
Cyphogastra punctatissima Kerremans T
Cyphogastra froggatti var. nigra Théry T (= punctatissima Kerremans)

BM100 - view slide
Cyphogastra viridis Kerremans ST
Cyphogastra apicalis Kerremans ST

BM101 - view slide
Cyphogastra dissimilis Kerremans ST
Cyphogastra geelwinkiana Gestro ST

BM102 - view slide
Cyphogastra cupricollis Kerremans T
Cyphogastra fossifrons Kerremans T

BM103 - view slide
Cyphogastra nigripennis Deyrolle
Cyphogastra tuberculata Thomson

BM104 - view slide
Cyphogastra cyanipes Kerremans T
Cyphogastra suffusa Waterhouse T (= cyanipes Kerremans)

BM105 - view slide
Cyphogastra wollastoni Waterhouse T
Cyphogastra palliditarsis Théry (CT of wollastoni Waterhouse)

BM106 - view slide
Cyphogastra albertisi Gestro ST
Cyphogastra lateimpressa Kerremans T (= mniszechi Deyrolle)

BM107 - view slide
Cyphogastra javanica Saunders T (= splendens Waterhouse)
Cyphogastra calepyga Fairmaire CT

BM108 - view slide
Cyphogastra anguicollis Deyrolle
Cyphogastra gestroi Kerremans

BM109 - view slide
Cyphogastra chevrolati Deyrolle
Cyphogastra lateralis Kerremans T

BM110 - view slide
Cyphogastra froggatti Théry T
Cyphogastra froggatti Théry T (= gloriosa Kerremans)

BM111 - view slide
Cyphogastra abdominalis Waterhouse T
Cyphogastra staudingeri Kerremans ST

BM112 - view slide
Cyphogastra palliditarsis Kerremans T
    (= flavimana Lansberge)

BM113 - view slide
Cyphogastra terminata Waterhouse T
Cyphogastra santacrucis Kerremans T

BM114 - view slide
Cyphogastra lansbergi Thomson CT
Cyphogastra lansbergi var. alorensis Kerremans T

BM115 - view slide
Cyphogastra abdominalis Waterhouse ST
Cyphogastra cupripennis Kerremans T (= gloriosa Kerremans)

BM116 - view slide
Cyphogastra lata Kerremans PT
    (= auripennis Saunders)

BM117 - view slide
Cyphogastra bedoci var. obscura Blair T

BM118 - view slide
Cyphogastra auripennis Saunders T
Cyphogastra picata Kerremans T

BM119 - view slide
Cyphogastra bicolor Waterhouse T
Cyphogastra miloudi Théry (CT to bicolor Waterhouse)

BM120 - view slide
Cyphogastra rollei Théry CT
Cyphogastra angustini Théry CT

BM121 - view slide
Amyia pictipennis Waterhouse T
Callipyndax cupriventris Waterhouse T
Euamyia chryselytra (Perty)

BM122 - view slide
Euchroraria subcornutus Fairmaire T
Obenbergerula horni Hoscheck

BM123 - view slide
Demostis elongatum Kerremans T
Epimacha planata Kerremans T

BM124 - view slide
Mundaria analis (Saunders)
Neocoraebus abyssinicus Kerremans T

BM125 - view slide
Mundaria typica Kerremans T
Asymades transvaalensis Kerremans T

BM126 - view slide
Alissoderus spectrum Fahraeus
Alissoderus albiventris Laporte & Gory
Alissoderus leucogaster Wiedemann
Alissoderus hoscheki Obenberger

BM127 - view slide
Cisseicoraebus grandis Kerremans
Cisseicoraebus retrolatus Deyrolle

BM128 - view slide
Anodontodora aurulans Obenberger
Diadora gibbicollis Kerremans T
Diadora picturella Kerremans T

BM129 - view slide
Parakamosia camerunica Théry PT
Eulasiodora umtalina Peringuey

BM130 - view slide
Evimantius rufopictus Kerremans
Eumorphocerus laticornis Théry PT

BM131 - view slide
Strigulia scotti Théry T
Strigulia pygmaea Kerremans T

BM132 - view slide
Entomogaster kerremansi Fairmaire T
Entomogaster octoguttata Fairmaire T

BM133 - view slide
Entomogaster modesta Fairmaire T
Entomogaster rufobasalis Fairmaire T

BM134 - view slide
Polyonychus tricolor Saunders T
Polyonychus nigropictus Laporte & Gory (= pictus Kerremans T)

BM135 - view slide
Nastella fairmairei Kerremans T

BM136 - view slide
Discoderoides grewiae Théry T
Chalcophlocteis dives Peringuey

Miscellaneous separate slides
Acmaeodera jamaicensis Fisher T - view slide
Blepharum bivittatum Kerremans T - view slide
Blepharum coeruleipes Fairmaire T - view slide
Chalcophora mexicana Waterhouse T - view slide