Species Diphucrania violacea (Kerremans, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cisseis violacea Kerremans, C. 1903. Coleoptera, Fam. Buprestidae. pp. 49-338 in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum. Bruxelles : Verteneuil & Desmet Vol. 12b-d. [228].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Gayndah, QLD.

 

Generic Combinations

• Diphucrania violacea (Kerremans, 1903). —
  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

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 [90] (violacea Kerremans was listed as a synonym of C. notulata by ; it is a separate species occurring in the vicinity of Brsibane, Qld)

 

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)