Subspecies Melobasis propinqua verna (Hope, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Buprestis verna Hope, F.W. 1846. Descriptions of new species of Buprestidae from New Holland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17: 62-65 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM COLE0934 sex unknown, Adelaide, SA.
• Melobasis prasina Thomson, J. 1879. Typi Buprestidarum Musaei Thomsoniani, Appendix 1a. Paris : E. Deyrolle 87 pp. [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Australia.
• Buprestis suaveola Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247 [176].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB sex unknown, Adelaide, SA.

Generic Combinations

• Melobasis propinqua verna (Hope, 1846).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Babingtonia behrii (Schltdl.) A.R.Bean [MYRTACEAE] Broom Baeckea (on foliage); Aotus ericoides (Vent.) G.Don [FABACEAE] Golden Pea (on foliage); Leptospermum sp. [MYRTACEAE] Tea-tree (on foliage); Acacia sp. [FABACEAE] Wattle (on foliage); Platylobium sp. [FABACEAE] (on foliage); Pultenaea spp. [FABACEAE] (on foliage)), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

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 [64] (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 [61] (Acacia sp.)

General References

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 [60] (revised status)

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