Species Melobasis buprestoides (Obenberger, 1922)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Briseis buprestoides Obenberger, J. 1922. Beiträge zur Kenntnis Buprestiden (Col). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 88A 12: 64-168 [94].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMPC 22061-2 2 specimens, sex unknown, Australia (as Australien).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

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]

Obenberger, J. 1930. Buprestidae 2. pp. 213-568 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 111. [437]

Williams, G.A. 1993. Hidden Rainforests: subtropical rainforests and their invertebrate biodiversity. Kensington, NSW : New South Wales University Press Vol. 1 188 pp. [103]

 

History of changes

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