Species Diphucrania albosparsa (Gory & Laporte, 1839)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cisseis albosparsa 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 inflammata 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 [167] [Brooks (1948) listed Acacia cincinnata as an adult food plant; Hawkeswood (1990) recorded this species from A. holosericea].

  Type data:

   
  Paratype(s) AM sex unknown (allotype); NMV T12209 sex unknown, Endeavour River, QLD; NMV T12208 sex unknown, Ayr, QLD;
  Syntype(s) AM sex unknown, Johnstone River, Endeavour River, Cairns, QLD; AM K67290 3 ♂, 3 ♀, Johnstone River, Endeavour River, Cairns, QLD [17° 39' S 145° 44' E].
• Cisseis cupriventris Kerremans, C. 1898. Buprestides nouveaux de l'Australie et des régiones voisines. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 42: 113-182 [161].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Australia (as Australie).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [164]
• 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] (inflammata)

 

Generic Combinations

• Diphucrania albosparsa (Gory & Laporte, 1839). —
  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

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Acacia holosericea G.Don [FABACEAE] Candelabra Wattle (on foliage); Acacia cincinnata F.Muell. [FABACEAE] Coin Spot Wattle (on foliage)), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Brooks (1948) listed Acacia cincinnata as an adult food plant; Hawkeswood (1990) recorded this species from A. holosericea.

 

General References

Bellamy, C.L. 2002. Coleoptera: Buprestoidea. In Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.5. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. pp. XII 491 +4 colour pls

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 [65]

Brooks, J.G. 1965. North Queensland Coleoptera - their food and host plants. III. North Queensland Naturalist 32(138): 29-30

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, 164] (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] [278]

Hawkeswood, T.J. 1990. A survey of the jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the Townsville district, northern Queensland, Australia. Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 5: 23-30

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] (albertisi 2995, albosparsa 2996)

Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [842]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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)
13-Jan-2011		03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
		03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED