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Species Castiarina xanthopilosa (Hope, 1847)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, florivore (associated flora: Leptospermum myrsinoides Schltdl. [MYRTACEAE] Silky Tea-tree (on flowers); Calytrix sp. [MYRTACEAE] (on flowers)), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Tepper (1887) recorded this species as xanthospilo

Associated Flora References

Tepper, J.G.O. 1887. Common native insects of South Australia. A popular guide to South Australian Entomology. Part 1. Coleoptera or beetles. Adelaide : E.S. Wiggs & Son 46 pp. [19] (Leptospermum myrsinoides)

 

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 [22]

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 [35] (checklist)

Bernet Kempers, K.J.W. 1923. Abbildungen von Flügelgeäder der Coleopteren. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 12: 71-115 [90] (wing venation)

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 [14] (Map 235)

Carter, H.J. 1921. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 25. Buprestidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 13(22): 1-6 [2]

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] [300]

Carter, H.J. 1940. Australian Buprestidae and the Junk Catalogue. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 380-389 [387]

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 [96] (splendida 2929, xanthopilosa 2973)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [740] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement xanthospilota [sic] as synonym of splendida Hope nom. nud.)

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] [49]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
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)