Species Chalcophorotaenia exilis (Blackburn, 1894)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chalcophora exilis Blackburn, T. 1894. Notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Part XV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 85-108 [98].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, near Oodnadatta, SA.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, Vic: Channel Country (CHC), Finke (FIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

General References

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 [6] (Map 16)

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] [301]

Lea, A.M. 1912. The late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn, B.A., and his entomological work. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: v-xl [xvii]

Obenberger, J. 1926. Buprestidae 1. pp. 1-212 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 84. [145]

 

History of changes

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