Species Diphucrania nigripennis (Macleay, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cisseis nigripennis Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of the vicinity of King's Sound, N.W. Australia. Part III.–The Sternoxes, Family Buprestidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3(3): 1227-1246 [Date published Dec. 7, 1888] [1231].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) sex unknown, King Sound, WA.

  Secondary source:

   Britton, E.B. & Stanbury, P.J. 1981. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VIII. Insects: Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 105(4): 241-293 [274].
• Cisseis ignicollis Kerremans, C. 1898. Buprestides nouveaux de l'Australie et des régiones voisines. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 42: 113-182 [164].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Bowen (as Port Denison), QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 nigripennis (Macleay, 1888). —
  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, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, herbivore, volant, wood-borer.

 

General References

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 [89] (nigripennis was listed by as belonging in Neospades; Barker finds it belongs in Cisseis (s.s.))

 

History of changes

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