Species Copiacyphon decipiens (Watts, 2007)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudomicrocara decipiens Watts, C.H.S 2007. Revision of the Australian Pseudomicrocara Armstrong (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 131(1): 1-82 [11-13, figs 2, 52].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (on Tea Tree flowers), SA Watts Gully Mt Crawford St For.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 2 specimens, Adelaide S.A.; ANIC, Acacia Plateau N.S.W.; ANIC 2 specimens, 2 km N Bateman’s Bay; ANIC 2 specimens, Bayswater; ANIC, Cement Creek, 670m N. of Warburton [37.43°S 145.42°E]; ANIC, 2 km S Horseshoe Lookout, Blackdown Tab. Qld. [4–5.46°S 149.06°E]; ANIC, Orange NSW; AM, Sydney x.37; SAMA, Tea Tree Gully; SAMA, Williamstown SA; SAMA 5 specimens (on Tea Tree flowers), SA Watts Gully Mt Crawford St For.

Generic Combinations

• Copiacyphon decipiens (Watts, 2007). —
  Watts, C.H.S., Bradford, T.M., Cooper, S.J.B. & Libonatti, M.L. 2020. New genera, species and combinations in the Pseudomicrocara Armstrong group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology supported by mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data. Zootaxa 4831(1): 1-66 [56]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adults have been found on Leptospermum flowers in South Australia

History of changes