Genus Cyrioides Carter, 1920

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• Cyrioides Carter, H.J. 1920. Notes on some Australian Tenebrionidae, with descriptions of new species; — also of a new genus and species of Buprestidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 222-249 [222].

  Type species:

   Cyrioides sexspilota Carter, 1920 by original designation.
• Cyria Serville, in Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1833. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis, Father & Sons Vol. 1 96 pp. [75] [junior homonym of Cyria Leach, 1818].

  Type species:

   Buprestis imperialis Fabricius, 1801 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Solier, A.J.J. 1833. Essai sur les Buprestides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2: 261-316 [269]; Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1836. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis, Father & Sons Vol. 1–4 3, 384 pp. [85]; Bellamy, C.L. 1998. A clarification of authorship of buprestid genera originally defined in the catalogues of P. F. M. A. Dejean (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 29(2): 365-382 [368].
• Xenocyria Obenberger, J. 1947. Sur un genre nouveau de Buprestides, Xenocyria n. (Col.). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 25: 127-130 [129].

  Type species:

   Cyria vittigera Laporte & Gory, 1835 by original designation.
• Cyriola Strand, E. 1928. Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. I–II. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 82(A, 7): 30-75 [69] [nom. nov. for Cyria Serville in Dejean, 1833].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Levey, B. 1978. A new tribe, Epistomentini, of Buprestidae (Coleoptera) with a redefinition of the tribe Chrysochroini. Systematic Entomology 3: 153-158 [156] (synonymized Cyrioides Carter under Cyria Serville in Dejean, without realizing that Strand (1928) had replaced the preoccupied Cyria with the new name Cyriola)
• Bellamy, C.L. 1986. The higher classification of Australian Buprestidae, with the description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 34: 583–600 [594]

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Stony Plains (STP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

General References

Bellamy, C.L. 1998. A clarification of authorship of buprestid genera originally defined in the catalogues of P. F. M. A. Dejean (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 29(2): 365-382 [368]

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]

Kerremans, C. 1903. Coleoptera, Fam. Buprestidae. pp. 49-338 in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum. Bruxelles : Verteneuil & Desmet Vol. 12b-d. [54] (generic characters, checklist)

Kerremans, C. 1908. Monographie des Buprestides. London : Dulau & Co. Vol. 3(1-12) 1-384 pp. [230]

Matthews, E.G. 1985. A guide to the genera of beetles of South Australia, Part 4 Polyphaga: Byrrhoidea, Buprestoidea, Dyropoidea, Elateroidea, Cantharoidea, Derodontoidea, and Bostrichoidea. South Australian Museum, Special Education Bulletin 7: 1-68 [4]

Obenberger, J. 1926. Buprestidae 1. pp. 1-212 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 84. [113]

Obenberger, J. 1947. Sur un genre nouveau de Buprestides, Xenocyria n. (Col.). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 25: 127-130 [129] (Cyria in key)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)