Species Diphucrania cyanura (Kerremans, 1898)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cisseis cyanura Kerremans, C. 1898. Buprestides nouveaux de l'Australie et des régiones voisines. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 42: 113-182 [163].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Australia (as Australie).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Australia (as Australie).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Barker, S. 1999. Designation of lectotypes of three species of Cisseis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 123(4): 155 [155].

Generic Combinations

• Diphucrania cyanura (Kerremans, 1898). —
  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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

General References

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] (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]

Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [845]

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