Species Melobasis brittoni Levey, 2012

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• Melobasis brittoni 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 [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Western Australia, Wurarga, Marloo sheep station [28°24'S 116°29'E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC 24♂ 10♀ (also in ZMHB, SAMA, WAM, BMNH, and private collections), various sites.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Acacia sp. [FABACEAE] Wattle), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults collected on leaves of Acacia sp. (FABACEAE)

Associated Flora References

Bellamy, C.L., Williams, G.A., Hasenpusch, J. & Sundholm, A. 2013. A summary of the published data on host plants and morphology of immature stages of Australian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), with additional new records. Insecta Mundi 0293: 1-172 [60] (Acacia sp.)

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 [31] (Acacia sp.)

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