Species Habroloma frenchi (van de Poll, 1887)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trachys frenchi Poll, J.R.H. Neervoort van de 1887. Nova species buprestidarum. Notes from the Leyden Museum 9: 126 [126].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP number and sex unknown, QLD bor.
• Trachys nigra 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] [1233].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, sex unknown, King Sound (as King's Sound, N.W. Australia), 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].
• Trachys (Habroloma) hackeri Obenberger, J. 1923. Description of new Australian Buprestidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 1: 72-81 [81].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMPC 4 specimens, sex unknown, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carter, H.J. 1928. Revision of the Australian species of the genera Curis, Neocuris and Trachys, together with notes and descriptions of new species of other Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53(3): 270-290 [283]
• Carter, H.J. 1940. Australian Buprestidae and the Junk Catalogue. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 380-389 [389]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant (associated flora: Melaleuca huegelli R.Br. [MYRTACEAE]).

Larva: miner.

 

General References

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] [283] (key)

Obenberger, J. 1937. Buprestidae 6. pp. 1247-1714 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 157. [1421] (questioned synonymy of nigra)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Oct-2024	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
03-Oct-2024	Agrilinae Gory & Laporte, 1835	10-Sep-2024	MODIFIED
16-Jun-2022	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
04-Aug-2021	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
24-Dec-2020	BUPRESTOIDEA	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
05-Mar-2019	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
28-Jan-2014	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
		03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED