Chapter III — Collections by Decade 03 / 12
Buprestidae · 1820–1889

Half of all jewel beetles were named in a single generation

New species formally described per decade across European natural history collections

0 100 200 300 400 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 62 98 187 334 156 71 PEAK DECADE 412
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