Species Diphucrania marmorata (Gory & Laporte, 1839)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cisseis marmorata 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). [4].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Holland).
• Cisseis irrorata 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). [4].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Cisseis viridicollis Thomson, J. 1879. Typi Buprestidarum Musaei Thomsoniani, Appendix 1a. Paris : E. Deyrolle 87 pp. [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Sydney, NSW.
• Cisseis aenea Kerremans, C. 1898. Buprestides nouveaux de l'Australie et des régiones voisines. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 42: 113-182 [158].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Cooktown, QLD.
• Cisseis marmorata prasina 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 [168] [unavailable name, variety of marmorata Carter, 1923].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, NSW.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 2 ♂, NSW (as N.S. Wales); SAMA 2 specimens, sex unknown, NSW (as N.S. Wales).

 

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 [165]
• 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 [87]

 

Generic Combinations

• Diphucrania marmorata (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, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Acacia decurrens Willd. [FABACEAE] Black Wattle (on foliage); Acacia parramattensis Tind. [FABACEAE] Parramatta Wattle (on foliage)), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Hawkeswood (1978) and Williams & Williams (1983) recorded this species from Acacia decurrens and A. parramattensis. Adults also on common fern (Bellamy 2013)

 

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 [67]

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 [15] (Map 255)

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]

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

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)

Hobler, F.H. 1924. Coleoptera found on Moreton Island during the Easter encampment. Queensland Naturalist 4(5): 98-99 [99]

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 [103, 104] (irrorata 3007, similis 3017)

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 irrorata Hope, nom. nud.)

 

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