Species Melobasis knowlesi Levey, 2012

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• Melobasis knowlesi 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.

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM ♀, Western Australia, 29 km. W. of Coolgardie.
  Paratype(s) WAM 1♀, same data as for holotype.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO)

Ecological Descriptors

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

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults recorded as collected from Acacia spp. (FABACEAE) leaves during October

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 [62] (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 [43] (Acacia sp.)

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