Species Diphucrania acuducta (Kirby, 1837)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trachys acuducta Kirby, W. 1837. Part fourth and last. The Insects. xxxix + 325 + [2] pp., 8 pls. in Richardson, J. (ed.). Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. London : J. Murray. [162].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, N. Scotia.
• Ethon marmorea Gory, H.L. & Laporte de Castelnau, F.L. 1839. Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes Coléoptères. Monographie des buprestides. genera: Anthaxia, Evagora, Sphenoptera, Cratomerus, Sponsor, Cisseis, Castalia, Poecilonota, Zemina, Stenogaster, Pseudagrilus, Amorphosoma, Eumerus, Coraebus, Ethon, Brachys [pp. 1-3, genera paged separately; see Laporte & Gory for Volume 1]. Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 2(25-35). [3].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Cisseis cuprifrons Kerremans, C. 1898. Buprestides nouveaux de l'Australie et des régiones voisines. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 42: 113-182 [157].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Australia (as Australie).
• Cisseis laeta Kerremans, C. 1903. Coleoptera, Fam. Buprestidae. pp. 49-338 in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum. Bruxelles : Verteneuil & Desmet Vol. 12b-d. [227].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Australia (as Australie).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [102]
• Carter, H.J. 1923. Revision of the genera Ethon, Cisseis and their allies (Buprestidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48(2): 159-176 [166]
• Barker, S. 2002. A check list of the Cisseis (sensu stricto) Gory & Laporte, 1839 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 35(1): 85-90 [86]

 

Generic Combinations

• Diphucrania acuducta (Kirby, 1837). —
  ICZN 2008. Opinion 2214 (Case 3366): Cisseis Gory & Laporte de Castelnau, 1839 and Curis Gory & Laporte de Castelnau, 1838 (Insecta, Coleoptera, BUPRESTIDAE): generic names not conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 65(4): 325-326
• Cisseis acuducta (Kirby, 1837).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), 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
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Dillwynia retorta (J.C.Wendl.) Druce [FABACEAE] Heathy Parrot Pea; Dillwynia floribunda Sm. [FABACEAE] Parrot Pea; Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd. [FABACEAE] Sydney Golden Wattle; Leptospermum flavescens Sm. [MYRTACEAE] Tantoon; Dillwynia sp. [FABACEAE]; Phyllota grandiflora Benth. [FABACEAE]; Pultenaea spp. [FABACEAE]; Oxylobium sp. [FABACEAE] (on foliage); Acacia obtusifolia A.Cunn. [FABACEAE] Blunt leaf Wattle; Jacksonia scoparia R.Br. ex Sm. [FABACEAE] Dogwood; Viminaria juncea (Schrad. & J.C.Wendl.) Hoffmanns. [FABACEAE] Golden Spray; Phyllota phylicoides (Sieber ex DC.) Benth. [FABACEAE] Heath Phyllota), volant.

Larva: wood-borer (associated flora: Dillwynia retorta (J.C.Wendl.) Druce [FABACEAE] Heathy Parrot Pea; Pultenaea stipularis Sm. [FABACEAE] (in galls in roots); Bossiaea rhombifolia Sieber ex DC [FABACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Hawkeswood (1978) listed this species from Acacia longiflora and Jacksonia scoparia; Williams & Williams (1983) recorded this species from Acacia obtusifolia (Mimosaceae), Dillwynia floribunda, D. retorta, J. scoparia, Phyllota grandiflora, P. phylicoides and Viminaria juncea (Fabaceae); Hawkeswood & Peterson (1982) cited Froggatt (1892) who recorded this species breeding in root galls of Dillwynia retorta; Hawkeswood (1993) summarized the biology of this species; Cowie (2001) listed this species from Pultenaea and Dillwynia spp.

 

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 [14] (Map 248)

Carter, H.J. 1923. Revision of the genera Ethon, Cisseis and their allies (Buprestidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48(2): 159-176 [161, 165] (note, key)

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] [277]

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

Cowie, D. 2001. Jewel Beetles of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club Inc. 41 pp. [33] (host and distribution)

Froggatt, W.W. 1893. Gall-making buprestids. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 323-326 [Date published 1892] [323] (larval 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 notes)

Hawkeswood, T.J. 1993. A list and notes on some Buprestidae (Coleoptera) from the Armidale area, New South Wales, Australia. Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 6: 437-447 [441] (adult host notes)

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)

Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [847] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonym of lata Hope, nom. nud.)

Turner, J. & Hawkeswood, T.J. 1997. A new larval host plant and other biological data for the Australian jewel beetle Cisseis acuducta (Kirby) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 7: 273-277 [273]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Jun-2022	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
04-Aug-2021	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	27-May-2022	MODIFIED
24-Dec-2020	BUPRESTOIDEA	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
05-Mar-2019	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
28-Jan-2014	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
13-Jan-2011		16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
		16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED