Species Castiarina montigena (Oke, 1928)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stigmodera (Castiarina) montigena Oke, C. 1928. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53(2): 1-30 [25] [cruentata species group].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T1197 ♀, Warburton Ranges, VIC.
• Stigmodera (Castiarina) alpestris Barker, S. 1983. New synonyms and new species of Stigmodera (Castiarina) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 107(3): 139-169 [146].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM 10660 ♂, Upper Tumut Gorge, NSW.
  Paratype(s) NMV T12150-54 5 ♂; NMV T12149 ♀ (allotype); QM 1 ♂; ANIC 1 ♀; SAMA 1 ♂.

 

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 [32]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

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 [17] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonym of flavopurpurea)

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 [32] (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 [12] (Map 179)

Carter, H.J. 1940. Australian Buprestidae and the Junk Catalogue. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 380-389 [387] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonym of flavopurpurea)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [720]

 

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)