Species Buprestis aurulenta (Linnaeus, 1758)

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• Buprestis aurulenta Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [661].

  Type data:

   Holotype LS sex unknown, locality unknown.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from North America.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Victoria

Nearctic Region

• Canada
• United States of America

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

"lab reared from pine; larvae in Abies alba, Larix decidua, Picea abies, Pinus halepensis, P. heldreichii, P. nigra, P. nigra ssp. salzmannii, P. pinaster, P. pinea and P. sylvestris [Pinaceae]".

 

General References

Carter, H.J. 1922. Australian Coleoptera: Notes and new species. No. ii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47(2): 65-82 [66]

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] [265]

Matthews, E.G. 1985. A guide to the genera of beetles of South Australia, Part 4 Polyphaga: Byrrhoidea, Buprestoidea, Dyropoidea, Elateroidea, Cantharoidea, Derodontoidea, and Bostrichoidea. South Australian Museum, Special Education Bulletin 7: 1-68 [5]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2019	Buprestinae Leach, 1815	15-May-2018	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)