Species Bubastes sphaenoida Laporte & Gory, 1836

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bubastes sphaenoida Laporte de Castelnau, F.L. & Gory, H.L. 1836. Histoire Naturelle et Iconographie des Insectes Coléoptères. Monographie des Buprestides. Histoire naturelle de iconographie des insectes Coléoptères. Monographie des buprestides. Bubastes, Aurigena, Capnodis, Buprestis. Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 1(8-11) 64 pp. [2].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Bubastes occidentalis Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part X. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 292-345 [293].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T15294 ♂, Eucla, WA.
• Bubastes persplendens Obenberger, J. 1920. Revision du genre Bubastes Lap., Gory (Col. Buprestidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 89: 89-108 [107].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMPC 21591 ♀, Tennant's Creek, NT.
• Bubastes splendens Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part X. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 292-345 [294].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV T15295 ♀, MacDonnell Ranges, NT.

 

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 [29, Figs. 31, 90–92, 184, 233]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

General References

Blackburn, T. 1889. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1387-1506 [Date published 22 March 1889] [1416]

Carter, H.J. 1924. Australian Coleoptera — notes and new species. No. iv. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 521-544 [528]

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] [283]

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 [71] (2661)

Obenberger, J. 1920. Revision du genre Bubastes Lap., Gory (Col. Buprestidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 89: 89-108 [95, 101] (key)

Obenberger, J. 1922. Beiträge zur Kenntnis Buprestiden (Col). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 88A 12: 64-168 [85]

Obenberger, J. 1928. Opuscula Buprestologica I. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Buprestiden (Col.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 92(9-11): 1-350 [190] (key)

Obenberger, J. 1930. Buprestidae 2. pp. 213-568 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 111. [307]

Obenberger, J. 1941. Generis Bubastes Cast. et Gory revisio nova (Col. Bupr.). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 19: 5-19 [7] (key)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
24-Dec-2020	BUPRESTOIDEA	21-Dec-2020	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)