Species Castiarina picta (Gory & Laporte, 1838)

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Regional Maps

• Stigmodera (Castiarina) picta Gory, H.L. & Laporte de Castelnau, F.L. 1838. Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes Coléoptères. Monographie des buprestides. genera: Stigmodera, Polycesta, Belionota, Eurybia (genera paged separately). Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 2(17-24). [46] [decemmaculata species group].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Swan-River, Australia (as Nouv.-Holl.).
• Stigmodera purpurea Hope, F.W. 1846. Descriptions of new species of Buprestidae from New Holland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17: 62-65 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM COLE0988 sex unknown, WA.
• Stigmodera laetabilis Kerremans, C. 1898. Buprestides nouveaux de l'Australie et des régiones voisines. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 42: 113-182 [153].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Australia (as Australie).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [19]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, florivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Hawkeswood (1980) recorded this species as prey of a spider, an immature Araneus sp. (Araneidae).

 

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 [19]

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 [8, 33] (note, 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] [297]

Hawkeswood, T.J. 1980. A spider feeding on a jewel beetle. Western Australian Naturalist 14(8): 236 [236] (predator note)

Hope, F.W. 1846. Descriptions of new species of Buprestidae from New Holland, chiefly collected by D. E. Fortnum, Esq. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4: 208-220 [Date published 2 Mar. 1846] [213] (purpurea second description)

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 [92] (2893)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [726]

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [727] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement variety of pictipennis)

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] [46]

 

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)