Genus Pachycisseis Théry in Carter, 1929

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• Pachycisseis Théry, A. 1929. Classification. pp. 266-275 in Carter, H.J. 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] [268] [first introduced as a subgenus of Cisseis Gory & Laporte, 1839].

  Type species:

   Ethon bicolor Gory & Laporte, 1839 (= Cisseis bicolor (Gory & Laporte, 1839)) by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Note

The separation of this monotypic genus based on mouthpart autapomorphy should be assessed in conjunction with further study of the other genera of this subtribe.

 

General References

Bellamy, C.L. 1988. The classification and phylogeny of the Australian Coroebini, Bedel, with a revision of the genera Paracephala, Meliboeithon and Dinocephalia (Coleoptera: Buprestridae: Agrilinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 413–453 [417]

Carter, H.J. 1940. Australian Buprestidae and the Junk Catalogue. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 380-389 [388] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement subgenus of Cisseis)

Obenberger, J. 1935. Buprestidae 4. pp. 785-934 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 143. [842] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonym of Cisseis)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		29-Oct-2012	MODIFIED