Species Diphucrania carteri (Obenberger, 1924)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cisseis carteri Obenberger, J. 1924. Kritische studien über die Buprestiden (Col.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 90A(3): 1-171 [109].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMPC 23769 ♂, Yllgarn, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) NMPC 23770 1 ♂, Yilgarn, WA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Barker, S. 1998. Selection of lectotypes and redescriptions of three Cisseis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 31(1): 21-23 [22].

 

Generic Combinations

• Diphucrania carteri (Obenberger, 1924). —
  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

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

General References

Carter, H.J. 1925. Revision of the Australian species of Chrysobothris (Fam. Buprestidae), together with notes and descriptions of new species of Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 50: 225–244 [232]

Carter, H.J. 1928. Revision of the Australian species of the genera Curis, Neocuris and Trachys, together with notes and descriptions of new species of other Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53(3): 270-290 [272] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonym of elliptica?)

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] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement ? synonym of elliptica)

Carter, H.J. 1940. Australian Buprestidae and the Junk Catalogue. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 380-389 [389] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonym of elliptica)

Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [843]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Jan-2011		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)