Species Anilara convexa Kerremans, 1898

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• Anilara convexa Kerremans, C. 1898. Buprestides nouveaux de l'Australie et des régiones voisines. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 42: 113-182 [132].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Australia (as Australie).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer (associated flora: Melaleuca decora (Salisb.) Britten [MYRTACEAE] Ridge Myrtle).

Associated Flora 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 [59] (Melaleuca decora)

Hawkeswood 2007. Review of the biology of the genus Anilara Saunders, 1868 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Calodema Supplementary Paper 5: 1-5 [2] (Melaleuca decora)

Hawkeswood, T.J. & Turner, J.R. 2003. Redescription of the adult of Anilara convexa Kerremans, 1898 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Australia, with observations on its biology and larval host plant. Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 10: 251-258 [253] (Melaleuca decora)

General References

Carter, H.J. 1926. Revision of the Australasian species of Anilara (Fam. Buprestidae) and Helmis (Fam. Dryopidae), with notes, and descriptions of other Australian Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 51(2): 50–71 [1 Jul. 1926] [54]

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] [286]

Obenberger, J. 1928. Opuscula Buprestologica I. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Buprestiden (Col.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 92(9-11): 1-350 [267] (key)

Obenberger, J. 1930. Buprestidae 2. pp. 213-568 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 111. [555]

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