Species Meliboeithon cylindricolle Bellamy, 1988

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• Meliboeithon cylindricolle Bellamy, C.L. 1988. The classification and phylogeny of the Australian Coroebini, Bedel, with a revision of the genera Paracephala, Meliboeithon and Dinocephalia (Coleoptera: Buprestridae: Agrilinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 413–453 [437].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 1985/386 ♂, Buningonia Spring [Well], WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM 85/387 1 ♀ (10-16.xi.1978), 70-75 km ENE Norseman, WA; ANIC 1 ♂ (Oct. 1981), Banjiwarn, WA [27.47°S 121.40°E]; CLBC 1 ♂ (Oct. 1981), Banjiwarn, WA [27.47°S 121.40°E]; AM K112017 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Geraldton, WA; TM 1 ♂ (2.x.1982), 26 km E Fowlers Gap, NSW; ANIC 1 ♀ (10/1980), Yundamindra [15.29°S 122.24°E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, WA: Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Western Australia: W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: root-feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Recorded from pitfalls traps in Eremophila bunchgrass habitat (Bellamy 1988).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)