| Buprestis splendens | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Genus: | Buprestis |
| Subgenus: | Stereosa |
| Species: | B. splendens |
| 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 possibly Greece.[1] It lives in sun-exposed Pinus forest, and is threatened with extinction by logging.[1]