Species Diphucrania prasina (Carter, 1923)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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] [variety of marmorata Gory & Laporte, 1839].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA 3267 ♂, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 1 ♂, SA; BMNH 2 ♂, NSW.

  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 prasina (Carter, 1923). —
  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, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • South Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, folivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

General 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] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement full species)

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. 1934. Australian and New Guinea Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(3-4): 252-269 [258]

Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [847]

 

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)