Species Melobasis andersoni Blackburn, 1887

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• Melobasis andersoni Blackburn, T. 1887. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 177-287 [234].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Port Lincoln, SA.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

General References

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 [7] (Map 32)

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]

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 [xxix]

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
		12-Feb-2010	(import)