Species Dinocephalia cyaneipennis (Blackburn, 1893)
- Paracephala cyaneipennis Blackburn, T. 1893. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 130-140 [130].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Sydney, NSW.
Paratype(s) SAMA 1 ♀; ANIC 2 specimens, sex unknown.Type host:
Casuarina distyla Vent., 1802 [CASUARINACEAE] (from galls)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
- Tasmania
- Victoria: SE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Allocasuarina littoralis (Salisb.) L.A.S.Johnson [CASUARINACEAE] Black She-Oak; Allocasuarina torulosa (Aiton) L.A.S.Johnson [CASUARINACEAE] Forest She Oak; Casuarina cunninghamiana Miq. [CASUARINACEAE] River She-Oak; Leptospermum flavescens Sm. [MYRTACEAE] Tantoon; Dillwynia spp. [FABACEAE] (also other bush peas); Leptospermum polygalifolium Salisb. [MYRTACEAE]), volant.
Larva: wood-borer (associated flora: Allocasuarina distyla (Vent.) L.A.S.Johnson [CASUARINACEAE] Black Sheoak (in galls)).
Extra Ecological Information
Froggatt (1894) recorded this species breeding in small, rounded galls on the branches of Casuarina distyla. Hawkeswood (1978) listed adults from foliage of C. torulosa and Williams & Williams (1983) recorded it from C. distyla, C. cunninghamiana and Leptospermum flavescens; Hawkeswood & Peterson (1982) repeated Froggatt's record and added an adult from C. torulosa; Turner & Hawkeswood (1994) summarized the known biological data; Cowie (2001) recorded this species from Dillwynia spp. and "other bush peas.".
General References
Bellamy, C.L. 1988. The classification and phylogeny of the Australian Coroebini, Bedel, with a revision of the genera Paracephala, Meliboeithon and Dinocephalia (Coleoptera: Buprestridae: Agrilinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 413–453 [445]
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 [74]
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 243)
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] [279]
Cowie, D. 2001. Jewel Beetles of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club Inc. 41 pp. [32] (host and distribution)
Froggatt, W.W. 1894. On the life-histories of Australian Coleoptera. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 113-125 (adult host note)
Hawkeswood, T.J. 1978. Observations on some Buprestidae (Coleoptera) from the Blue Mountains, N.S.W. The Australian Zoologist 19(3): 257-275 [260] (host note)
Hawkeswood, T.J. & Peterson, M. 1982. A review of larval host records for Australian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Victorian Naturalist 99: 240-251 [242] (larval food plant)
Kerremans, C. 1903. Coleoptera, Fam. Buprestidae. pp. 49-338 in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum. Bruxelles : Verteneuil & Desmet Vol. 12b-d. [297]
Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [788]
Turner, J. & Hawkeswood, T.J. 1994. Observations on the biology and host plants of Dinocephalia cyanipennis (Blackburn) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from New South Wales, Australia. Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 7: 87-96 [87] (host plant notes)
Williams, G.A. & Williams, T. 1983. A list of the Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of the Sydney basin, New South Wales, with adult food plant records and biological notes on food plant associations. Australian Entomological Magazine 9(6): 81-93 (adult host note)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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03-Oct-2024 | BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 | 03-Oct-2024 | MODIFIED | |
03-Oct-2024 | Agrilinae Gory & Laporte, 1835 | 10-Sep-2024 | MODIFIED | |
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 | |
28-Jan-2014 | BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815 | 03-Oct-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Federica Turco (QM) |
03-Oct-2024 | MODIFIED |