Species Neospades cuprifera (Gestro, 1877)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cisseis cuprifera Gestro, R. 1877. Aliquot Buprestidarum novarum diagnoses. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 9: 351-362 [357].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG sex unknown, Somerset (Cap. York), QLD.
• Cisseis gestroi Kerremans, C. 1892. Catalogue synonymique des Buprestides decrits de 1758 à 1890. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 1: 1-304 [225] [nom. nud.].
• Cisseis cuprifera Thomson, J. 1879. Typi Buprestidarum Musaei Thomsoniani, Appendix 1a. Paris : E. Deyrolle 87 pp. [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Sydney, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kerremans, C. 1900. Buprestides nouveaux et remarques synonymiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 282-351 [319]
• Carter, H.J. 1921. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 25. Buprestidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 13(22): 1-6 [4]
• Carter, H.J. 1923. Revision of the genera Ethon, Cisseis and their allies (Buprestidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48(2): 159-176 [172]
• Barker, S. 2002. A check list of the Cisseis (sensu stricto) Gory & Laporte, 1839 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 35(1): 85-90 [89] (comment re C. gestroi unknown, the holotype is not in the BMNH and the species is not listed under Cisseis in Kerremans, C. 1903. Coleoptera, Fam. Buprestidae. pp. 49–338 in Wytsman, P. (ed). Genera Insectorum. Bruxelles : Verteneuil & Desmet Vol. 12b-d)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: N Gulf
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, florivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

General References

Carter, H.J. 1921. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 25. Buprestidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 13(22): 1-6 [4]

Carter, H.J. 1923. Revision of the genera Ethon, Cisseis and their allies (Buprestidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48(2): 159-176 [172] (key)

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] [277]

Masters, G. 1886. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Part III. Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 21-126 [103] (3001)

Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [854] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Cisseis)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)