Genus Prospheres Saunders, 1868

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• Prospheres Saunders, E. 1868. A revision of the Australian Buprestidae described by the Rev. F. W. Hope. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 16: 1-67 [Date published April 1868] [7].

  Type species:

   Buprestis aurantiopicta Laporte & Gory, 1837 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Levey, B. 1978. A taxonomic revision of the genus Prospheres (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 26: 713-726 [Date published dated 1978, published 24 Jan. 1979] [716].
• Phospheres Thomson, J. 1878. Typi Buprestidarum Musaei Thomsoniani. Paris : E. Deyrolle 103 pp. [16] [junior objective synonym of Prospheres Saunders, 1868].

  Type species:

   Buprestis aurantiopicta Laporte & Gory, 1837 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Obenberger, J. 1926. Buprestidae 1. pp. 1-212 in W. Junk & S. Schenkling (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 84. [36]

Introduction

For general host associations see publication by Matthews (1985).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

General References

Matthews, E.G. 1985. A Guide to the Genera of Beetles of South Australia. Part 4. Polyphaga: Byrrhoidea, Buprestoidea, Dryopoidea, Elateroidea, Cantharoidea, Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea. Adelaide : South Australian Museum 68 pp. [4]

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