Species Castiarina erythromelas (Boisduval, 1835)
- Buprestis erythromelas Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu vii 716 pp. [Date published 27-III-1835] [75].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Hobart (as Hobar-town), TAS. - Stigmodera longula Blackburn, T. 1892. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 15(1): 20-73 [Date published July 1892] [54].
Type data:
Holotype NMV sex unknown, VIC. - Stigmodera (Castiarina) cicerini Obenberger, J. 1928. Opuscula Buprestologica I. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Buprestiden (Col.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 92(9-11): 1-350 [331].
Type data:
Holotype NMPC sex unknown, TAS.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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]
- Carter, H.J. 1940. Australian Buprestidae and the Junk Catalogue. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 380-389 [386]
- Barker, S. 1979. New species and a catalogue of Stigmodera (Castiarina) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 103(1): 1-23 [17]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria
IBRA
NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Tasmania
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: diurnal, florivore (associated flora: Leptospermum lanigerum (Sol. ex Aiton) Sm. [MYRTACEAE] Woolly Tea-tree), volant.
Larva: wood-borer.
Extra Ecological Information
Cowie (2001) suggested this species was possibly attracted to the bloom of various Eucalyptus and Leptospermum species.
Associated Flora References
Bellamy, C.L. 2002. Coleoptera: Buprestoidea. In Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.5. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. pp. XII 491 +4 colour pls [224] (Leptospermum lanigerum)
Carter, H.J. 1933. Gulliver in the bush. Wanderings of an Australian entomologists. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 234 pp. 9 pls. [49, 116] (Leptospermum lanigerum)
Cowie, D. 2001. Jewel Beetles of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club Inc. 41 pp. [7] (Leptospermum lanigerum)
Williams, G.A. 1977. A list of Buprestidae (Coleoptera) collected from Leptospermum flavescens Sm. at East Minto, New South Wales. Australian Entomological Magazine 3: 81-82 [82] (Leptospermum lanigerum)
General References
Barker, S. 1979. New species and a catalogue of Stigmodera (Castiarina) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 103(1): 1-23 [17]
Barker, S. 1986. Stigmodera (Castiarina) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae): taxonomy, new species and a checklist. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 110(1): 1-36 [30] (checklist)
Burns, G.G. & Burns, A.J. 1992. The distribution of Victorian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) - an ENTRECS project. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Victoria 5: 1-53 [11] (Map 140)
Carter, H.J. 1913. Notes on the genus Stigmodera with descriptions of eleven new species and of other Buprestidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37(3): 497-511 [497] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement longula as synonym of cyanipes)
Carter, H.J. 1919. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 44(1): 137–173, pls IV,V [137]
Carter, H.J. 1924. Australian Coleoptera — notes and new species. No. iv. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 521-544 [521]
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] [295]
Cowie, D. 2001. Jewel Beetles of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club Inc. 41 pp. [7] (host and distribution)
Lea, A.M. 1912. The late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn, B.A., and his entomological work. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: v-xl [xxxviii] (longula)
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 [86] (2817)
Obenberger, J. 1933. Notes on the Australian genus Stigmodera Eschsch. (Col. Bupr.). Acta Societatis Entomologicae Cechosloveniae 30: 65-76, 104-112 [74] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement cicerini as valid species)
Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [702]
Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [697] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement cicerini as valid species)
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] [36]
History of changes
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| 03-Oct-2024 | BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 | 03-Oct-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 10-Sep-2024 | BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 | 10-Sep-2024 | MOVED | |
| 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 | |
| 05-Mar-2019 | Buprestinae Leach, 1815 | 03-Oct-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Mar-2019 | Buprestinae Leach, 1815 | 03-Oct-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 28-Jan-2014 | BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 | 03-Oct-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Federica Turco (QM) |
| 15-Nov-2012 | 15-Nov-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |