Species Diphucrania excelsior (Barker, 2001)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cisseis excelsior Barker, S. 2001. Descriptions of twenty one new species of Cisseis (sensu stricto) Gory & Laporte 1839 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 125(2): 97-113 [107].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I21514 ♂, 43 km N Mt Carbine, QLD.
  Paratype(s) SAMA I21515 ♀ (allotype), same as holotype.

 

Generic Combinations

• Diphucrania excelsior (Barker, 2001). —
  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

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, folivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Type series "on Faboidea leaves".

 

General References

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 [66]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Jan-2014	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	21-Jan-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
13-Jan-2011		13-Jan-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)