Subspecies Melobasis vertebralis vertebralis Carter, 1923

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• Melobasis vertebralis 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 [83].

  Type data:

   
  Paratype(s) AM ♀ (allotype);
  Syntype(s) AM K91906 ♂, Duaringa, QLD [23° 40' 1" S 149° 39' E]; AM K91907 sex unknown, Duaringa, QLD; AM K32142 sex unknown, Duaringa, QLD; ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, sex unknown, Ipswich, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Britton, E.B. & Stanbury, P.J. 1981. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VIII. Insects: Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 105(4): 241-293 [291].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer (associated flora: Acacia leiocalyx (Domin) Pedley [FABACEAE] Early Flowering Black Wattle).

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