Species Diphucrania westwoodii (Gory & Laporte, 1839)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Coraebus westwoodii 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). [15].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Cisseis verna Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part X. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 292-345 [299].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T16935 sex unknown, VIC.
• Cisseis viridana Kerremans, C. 1898. Buprestides nouveaux de l'Australie et des régiones voisines. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 42: 113-182 [165].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Australie sept.
• Cisseis theryi Kerremans, C. 1903. Coleoptera, Fam. Buprestidae. pp. 49-338 in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum. Bruxelles : Verteneuil & Desmet Vol. 12b-d. [229].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, VIC.

 

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 [166]
• 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]

 

Generic Combinations

• Diphucrania westwoodii (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
• Cisseis westwoodii (Gory & Laporte, 1839).

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

General References

Blackburn, T. 1890. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 147-156 [Date published Dec. 31, 1890] [153]

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 271)

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, 166] (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] [279]

Lea, A.M. 1912. The late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn, B.A., and his entomological work. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: v-xl [xxi] (verna)

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 [105] (3023)

Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [857]

 

History of changes

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