Genus Melobasis Laporte & Gory, 1837

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melobasis Gory, H.L. & Laporte de Castelnau, F.L. 1837. Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes Coléoptères. Monographie des buprestides. genera: Colobogaster, Chrysobothris, Agrilus; (genera paged separately). Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 2(12-16). [118] [as subgenus of Buprestis].

  Type species:

   Buprestis cupriceps Kirby, 1818 by subsequent designation, see Bellamy, C.L. 1998. Type species designations in the family Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 45(1): 9-15 [11].
• Abrobapta Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1833. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis, Father & Sons Vol. 1 96 pp. [80].

  Secondary source:

   Bellamy, C.L. 1998. A clarification of authorship of buprestid genera originally defined in the catalogues of P. F. M. A. Dejean (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 29(2): 365-382 [379].
• Briseis Saunders, E. 1871. Catalogus Buprestidarum Synonymicus et Systematicus. London : Janson 171 pp. [44].

  Type species:

   Buprestis conica Laporte & Gory, 1837 by monotypy.
• Diceropygus Deyrolle, H. 1865. Description des Buprestides de la Malaisie recueillis par M. Wallace. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 8: 1-269 pls i-iv [Date published Mar 1965: publication bears the date of 1864 but was not published until March 1865] [68].

  Type species:

   Diceropygus scutellaris Deyrolle, 1865 by subsequent designation, see Bellamy, C.L. 1998. Type species designations in the family Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 45(1): 9-15 [12].
• Montrouzieria Obenberger, J. 1923. Une série de nouveaux genres de Buprestides. Bulletin de la Section entomologique du Muséum national de Prague 1: 13-44, 3 figs [17].
• Montrouzieretta Obenberger, J. 1924. Deuxième série de nouveaux genres de Buprestides xxx. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 2: 7-44 [19] [replacement name; unnecessary].
• Paramelobasis Théry, A. 1923. Remarques sur les genres alliés á Melobasis (Col. Buprestidae) et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la Malaisie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 51: 51–70 [58].

  Type species:

   Melobasis (Paramelobasis) austera Théry, 1923 by monotypy, see Levey, B. 2012. A Revision of the Australian species of the genus Melobasis Laporte & Gory 1837 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Part 1 (Introductory material, key to species-groups and keys to species of the thoracica, pusilla, formosa, propinqua & gloriosa species-groups). Zootaxa 3464: 1-107 [11] (for Briseis Saunders, 1871, Diceropygus Deyrolle, 1864, and Paramelobasis Théry, 1923).

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Montouzieretta Volkovitsh & Hawkeswood, 1995 [misspelling].

 

Introduction

Levey (2012), in his treatment of a first section of the Australian Melobasis species recognised the following species groups:

The thoracica species-group
M. duplexicolor Levey
M. thoracica Blackburn

The pusilla species-group
M. inflammabilis Thomson
M. kanguluorum Levey
M. parvula Carter
M. paucipunctata Levey
M. pusilla Carter

The formosa species-group
M. acutula Levey
M. amoena Levey
M. brevis Levey
M. brittoni Levey
M. burnsi Levey
M. caudata Carter
M. dividua Levey
M. flavoaenea Levey
M. flexa Levey
M. formosa Carter
M. goerlingi Levey
M. hanloni Levey
M. janae Levey
M. knowlesi Levey
M. marlooensis Carter
M. meyricki Blackburn
M. nudipectus Levey
M. powelli Levey
M. purpurilata Levey
M. septemplagiata Carter

The propinqua species-group
M. cuprifera (Laporte & Gory)
M. dives Carter
M. propinqua (Laporte & Gory)
M. propinqua propinqua (Laporte & Gory)
M. propinqua depressa Levey
M. propinqua porteri (Hope)
M. propinqua verna (Hope)
M. rectipilosa Levey
M. regalis regalis Carter
M. regalis carnabyorum Levey
M. simulata Levey
M. uniformis Carter

The gloriosa species-group
M. angusta Levey
M. eximia Levey
M. gloriosa (Laporte & Gory)
M. gloriosa gloriosa (Laporte & Gory)
M. gloriosa cruentata Thomson
M. robusta Carter
M. similis Levey
M. specularis Levey

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), 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 Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Northern Kimberley (NK) ; NT, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Sturt Plateau (STU)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

General References

Bellamy, C.L. 1998. A clarification of authorship of buprestid genera originally defined in the catalogues of P. F. M. A. Dejean (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 29(2): 365-382 [379] (synonymy of Abrobapta)

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] [284]

Levey, B. 2012. A Revision of the Australian species of the genus Melobasis Laporte & Gory 1837 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Part 1 (Introductory material, key to species-groups and keys to species of the thoracica, pusilla, formosa, propinqua & gloriosa species-groups). Zootaxa 3464: 1-107

Obenberger, J. 1930. Buprestidae 2. pp. 213-568 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 111. [428]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Oct-2012		10-Oct-2012	MOVED
		10-Oct-2012	MODIFIED