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Species Neospades simplex Blackburn, 1888

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Species Neospades simplex Blackburn, 1888

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, florivore (associated flora: Jacksonia thesioides A.Cunn. ex Benth. [FABACEAE] Broombush (on flowers); Eucalyptus drepanophylla F.Muell. ex Benth., 1867 [MYRTACEAE] Grey Ironbark (on flowers); Corymbia polycarpa (F.Muell.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson [MYRTACEAE] Long-Fruited Bloodwood (on flowers)), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Brooks (1948) recorded this species from flowers of Jacksonia thesioides; Hawkeswood (1990) recorded adults on leaves and stems of Eucalyptus drepanophylla and E. polycarpa.

 

General References

Bellamy, C.L., Williams, G.A., Hasenpusch, J. & Sundholm, A. 2013. A summary of the published data on host plants and morphology of immature stages of Australian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), with additional new records. Insecta Mundi 0293: 1-172 [71]

Blackburn, T. 1912. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. XLII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 40-75 [Date published Dec. 31, 1912] [74]

Brooks, J.G. 1948. Some North Queensland Coleoptera and their food plants. North Queensland Naturalist 15(87): 26-29 [28] (adult host plant note)

Carter, H.J. 1923. Revision of the genera Ethon, Cisseis and their allies (Buprestidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48(2): 159-176 [172] (key)

Carter, H.J. 1929. A check list of the Australian Buprestidae. With tables and keys to sub-families, tribes, and genera (by A. Théry). The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 265-304 [Date published 24 Mar 1929] [277]

Hawkeswood, T.J. 1990. A survey of the jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the Townsville district, northern Queensland, Australia. Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 5: 23-30 [27]

Lea, A.M. 1912. The late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn, B.A., and his entomological work. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: v-xl [xviii, xxx] (bella, simplex)

Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [854] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Cisseis)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
16-Jun-2022 BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 16-Jun-2022 MODIFIED
04-Aug-2021 BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 27-May-2022 MODIFIED
24-Dec-2020 BUPRESTOIDEA 16-Jun-2022 MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020 POLYPHAGA 16-Jun-2022 MODIFIED Max Beatson
05-Mar-2019 BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 16-Jun-2022 MODIFIED
28-Jan-2014 BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 16-Jun-2022 MODIFIED Dr Federica Turco (QM)
16-Jun-2022 MODIFIED