Species Melobasis maculata (Deyrolle, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diceropygus maculata 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] [69].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, I. Mysole.
• Diceropygus quadritinctus Obenberger, J. 1922. Beiträge zur Kenntnis Buprestiden (Col). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 88A 12: 64-168 [93].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMPC 22054 sex unknown, Coen District, Cape York, QLD.
• Melobasis jakowleffi Kerremans, C. 1903. Coleoptera, Fam. Buprestidae. pp. 49-338 in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum. Bruxelles : Verteneuil & Desmet Vol. 12b-d. [158].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, New Guinea (as Nouvelle-Guinee).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carter, H.J. 1928. Revision of the Australian species of the genera Curis, Neocuris and Trachys, together with notes and descriptions of new species of other Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53(3): 270-290 [271]
• Carter, H.J. 1931. Checklist of the Australian Buprestidae. Corrigenda, Addenda and Synonyms omitted. The Australian Zoologist 6: 107-108 [108] (? synonymy of jacowleffi sic)
• Carter, H.J. 1940. Australian Buprestidae and the Junk Catalogue. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 380-389 [383]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

General References

Carter, H.J. 1923. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Melobasis (Fam. Buprestidae, Order Coleoptera), with notes on allied genera. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1923(1–2): 64–105, pls I,II [103]

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] [286]

Obenberger, J. 1930. Buprestidae 2. pp. 213-568 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 111. [436]

 

History of changes

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