Species Castiarina straminea (Macleay, 1863)

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• Stigmodera straminea Macleay, W.J. 1863. Descriptions of twenty new species of Buprestidae, belonging to the genus Stigmodera, from the northern parts of Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 22-32 [25] [straminea species group].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC sex unknown, Bowen (as Port Denison), QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Britton, E.B. & Stanbury, P.J. 1981. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VIII. Insects: Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 105(4): 241-293 [287].
• Stigmodera addenda Kerremans, C. 1898. Buprestides nouveaux de l'Australie et des régiones voisines. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 42: 113-182 [149] [junior homonym of addenda Thomson, 1878].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Australia (as Australie).
• Stigmodera johannae Théry, A. 1911. Buprestides nouveaux (Deuxième partie). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 18: 1-58 [55].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP ♂, Townsville, QLD; MNHP 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Australia (as Australie).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [67]
• Carter, H.J. 1924. Australian Coleoptera — notes and new species. No. iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 19–45 [19]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, florivore (associated flora: Eucalyptus sp. [MYRTACEAE] Gum Tree (on flowers); Eucalyptus ochrophloia F.Muell. [MYRTACEAE] Yapunyah (on flowers); Baeckea sp. [MYRTACEAE] (on flowers)), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Associated Flora References

Bellamy, C.L., Williams, G.A., Hasenpusch, J. & Sundholm, A. 2013. A summary of the published data on host plants and morphology of immature stages of Australian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), with additional new records. Insecta Mundi 0293: 1-172 [50] (Eucalyptus ochrophloia)

 

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 [21]

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 [6, 34] (note, checklist)

Blackburn, T. 1900. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXVI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24: 35-68 [Date published Aug. 1900] [42] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement addenda synonym of pallidipennis)

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 [13] (Map 215)

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] [299]

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 [97] (2942)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [741] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement johannae as variety)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [740]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Jun-2022	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
04-Aug-2021	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	27-May-2022	MODIFIED
24-Dec-2020	BUPRESTOIDEA	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
05-Mar-2019	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2019	Buprestinae Leach, 1815	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2019	Buprestinae Leach, 1815	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
28-Jan-2014	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
15-Nov-2012		16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
		16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED