Species Melobasis paucipunctata Levey, 2012

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• Melobasis paucipunctata 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 [21].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, W. Australia, Wurarga, Marloo sheep station [28°24'S 116°29'E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC 7♂ 5♀ (also in NMV and private collections), WA, several localities; ASC 2♂ 2♀, NSW, 2 km W of Euabalong West & 12.2 km W of Euabalong West.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, WA: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Santalum acuminatum (R.Br.) A.DC. [SANTALACEAE] Desert Quandong), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults recorded as occurring on flowering Quandong (Santalum acuminatum (R. Br.) A. DC [SANTALACEAE]) in December & January

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 [63] (Santalum acuminatum)

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 [22] (Santalum acuminatum)

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