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Species Agrilus (Agrilus) hypoleucus Gory & Laporte, 1837

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Species Agrilus (Agrilus) hypoleucus Gory & Laporte, 1837

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia


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

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
    • Tasmania
    • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Acacia mearnsii De Wild. [FABACEAE] Black Wattle; Acacia spectabilis A.Cunn. ex Benth. [FABACEAE] Glory Wattle, Pillaga Wattle, Mudgee Wattle; Acacia pycnantha Benth. [FABACEAE] Golden Wattle; Acacia parramattensis Tind. [FABACEAE] Parramatta Wattle; Casuarina cunninghamiana Miq. [CASUARINACEAE] River Oak, River Sheoak; Acacia leucolobia Sweet [FABACEAE] Silver Wattle; Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd. [FABACEAE] Sydney Golden Wattle; Leptospermum sp. [MYRTACEAE] Tea-tree; Acacia sp. [FABACEAE] Wattle; Casuarina muelleriana Miq. [CASUARINACEAE]), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Turner (2001) recorded A. longifolia as a larval host.

 

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 [76]

Blackburn, T. 1887. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 177-287 [256]

Blackburn, T. 1892. Coleoptera, in Scientific results of the Elder Exploring Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16: 16-61 [37]

Carter, H.J. 1921. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 25. Buprestidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 13(22): 1-6 [5]

Carter, H.J. 1924. Australian Coleoptera — notes and new species. No. iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 19–45 [29] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement flavotaeniatus as synonym of australasiae)

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] [275] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement hypoleucus as synonym of australasiae)

Carter, H.J. 1940. Australian Buprestidae and the Junk Catalogue. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 380-389 [389] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement flavotaeniatus as synonym of australasiae)

Curletti, G. 2001. The genus Agrilus in Australia (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Jewel Beetles 9: 1-45, 8 pls [7]

Masters, G. 1886. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Part III. Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 21-126 [106] (3030)

Obenberger, J. 1923. Description of new Australian Buprestidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 1: 72-81 [79] (key)

Obenberger, J. 1928. Opuscula Buprestologica I. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Buprestiden (Col.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 92(9-11): 1-350 [73]

Obenberger, J. 1936. Buprestidae 5. pp. 935-1246 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. ‘s-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 152. [1085]

Obenberger, J. 1959. Sur les espèces du genre Agrilus Curtis de l'Australie et Océanie (Coleoptera Buprestidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 33: 223-240 [229]

Saunders, E. 1868. A revision of the Australian Buprestidae described by the Rev. F. W. Hope. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 16: 1-67 [Date published April 1868] [62]

Turner, J.R. 2001. Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd. the first recorded larval host plant for Agrilus hypoleucus Laporte & Gory (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Australia. Jewel Beetles 10: 63-67 [63] (larval host note)

 

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)
03-Oct-2024 BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
03-Oct-2024 Agrilinae Gory & Laporte, 1835 10-Sep-2024 MODIFIED
16-Jun-2022 BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
04-Aug-2021 BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
24-Dec-2020 BUPRESTOIDEA 03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020 POLYPHAGA 03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED Max Beatson
05-Mar-2019 BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
13-Jun-2017 Agrilus Curtis, 1825 03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
28-Jan-2014 BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED Dr Federica Turco (QM)
05-Mar-2013 03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
17-Dec-2010 03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
03-Oct-2024 MODIFIED