Species Melobasis marlooensis Carter, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melobasis marlooensis Carter, H.J. 1937. Some new Tenebrionidae in the South Australian Museum; together with notes and descriptions of other Australian Coleoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 61: 121-144, pls V, VIII [124].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K112160 ♂, Marloo Station, Wurarga, WA [28° 24' 55" S 116° 17' 12" E].
  Paratype(s) AM ♀ (allotype), same as holotype; whereabouts unknown 5 specimens, sex unknown, same as holotype.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

General References

Carter, H.J. 1939. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. XI. (Mostly Elateridae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64(3-4): 297–330, pls VIII, IX [300] (key)

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 [45]

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