Species Diphucrania scabiosa (Boisduval, 1835)

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• Buprestis scabiosa Gory, H.L. in Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1835. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuteé par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous les commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. Deuxième partie. Coléoptères et autres ordres. Paris : J. Tastu 716 pp. [96].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Cisseis septuosa 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 [109].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I21521 ♂, Charity Ck Bridge via Mount George Manning River, NSW.
  Paratype(s) SAMA I21522 ♀, same as holotype.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Barker, S. 2006. Twenty-five new species of Cisseis (sensu stricto) and two new synonyms (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 130(2): 257-284 [258]

 

Generic Combinations

• Diphucrania scabiosa (Boisduval, 1835). —
  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
• Cisseis scabiosa (Boisduval, 1835).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Allocasuarina verticillata (Lam.) L.A.S.Johnson [CASUARINACEAE] Drooping She-Oak (on foliage); Casuarina cunninghamiana Miq. [CASUARINACEAE] River She-Oak (on foliage); Tristaniopsis sp. [MYRTACEAE] (on foliage)), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Some of the type series of C. scabiosa were recorded from Casuarina cunninghamiana, C. stricta and Tristaniopsis

 

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 [69]

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] [279]

Kerremans, C. 1900. Buprestides nouveaux et remarques synonymiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 282-351 [319] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Ethon)

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 [104] (3015)

Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [854]

 

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
		12-Feb-2010	(import)