Species Bubastes kirbyi Obenberger, 1928

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bubastes kirbyi Obenberger, J. 1928. Opuscula Buprestologica I. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Buprestiden (Col.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 92(9-11): 1-350 [200].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMPC 21502 ♂, Australia (as Australien).
• Bubastes blackburni Obenberger, J. 1941. Generis Bubastes Cast. et Gory revisio nova (Col. Bupr.). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 19: 5-19 [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMPC 21507 ♂, Australia.
• Bubastes chapmani Obenberger, J. 1941. Generis Bubastes Cast. et Gory revisio nova (Col. Bupr.). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 19: 5-19 [16].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMPC 21505 ♀, Chapman River, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bílý, S. & Hanlon, M. 2020. A revision of the genus Bubastes Laporte & Gory, 1836 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Zootaxa 4832(1): 1-75 [25, Figs. 19, 79–81, 175, 225]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

General References

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] [302]

Obenberger, J. 1930. Buprestidae 2. pp. 213-568 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 111. [306]

Obenberger, J. 1941. Generis Bubastes Cast. et Gory revisio nova (Col. Bupr.). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 19: 5-19 [10] (key)

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