Species Castiarina julia (Thomson, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stigmodera julia Thomson, J. 1879. Typi Buprestidarum Musaei Thomsoniani, Appendix 1a. Paris : E. Deyrolle 87 pp. [31] [cupricollis species group].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀, Australia.
• Stigmodera blackburni Carter, H.J. 1916. Revision of the genus Stigmodera, and descriptions of some new species of Buprestidae. (Order Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 40: 78–144, pls 9,10 [118].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀, SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [4]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, florivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

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 [15, 16] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement blackburni as valid species, julia as synonym of cupricollis)

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 [31] (checklist)

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] [293, 294] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement blackburni as valid species; julia as synonym of cupricollis)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [687] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement blackburni as valid species)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Sep-2024	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	10-Sep-2024	MOVED
15-Nov-2012		15-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)