Species Pseudanilara purpureicollis (Macleay, 1872)

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• Anthaxia purpureicollis Macleay, W.J. 1872. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Second paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(4): 239-318 [242].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K32237 sex unknown, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Anthaxia nigra Macleay, W.J. 1872. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Second paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(4): 239-318 [243].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM K32238 sex unknown, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E]; ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, sex unknown, Gayndah, 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 [272].
• Neocuris nigricans Blackburn, T. 1892. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 15(1): 20-73 [Date published July 1892] [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Blue Mountains, NSW.
• Pseudanilara roberti Théry, A. 1911. Buprestides nouveaux (Deuxième partie). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 18: 1-58 [32].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 3 specimens, sex unknown, VIC (Australie).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carter, H.J. 1924. Australian Coleoptera — notes and new species. No. iv. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 521-544 [525]
• Carter, H.J. 1926. Revision of the Australasian species of Anilara (Fam. Buprestidae) and Helmis (Fam. Dryopidae), with notes, and descriptions of other Australian Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 51(2): 50–71 [1 Jul. 1926] [51]
• Carter, H.J. 1928. Revision of the Australian species of the genera Curis, Neocuris and Trachys, together with notes and descriptions of new species of other Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53(3): 270-290 [279]
• Obenberger, J. 1928. Opuscula Buprestologica I. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Buprestiden (Col.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 92(9-11): 1-350 [59]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Eucalyptus spp. [MYRTACEAE] Gum Trees (on foliage of dying); Casuarina cunninghamiana Miq. [CASUARINACEAE] River She-Oak), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Williams & Williams (1983) recorded this species from Casuarina cunninghamiana; Cowie (2001) listed it from foliage of dying Eucalyptus.

Associated Flora References

Bellamy, C.L. 2002. Coleoptera: Buprestoidea. In Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.5. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. pp. XII 491 +4 colour pls [109] (Casuarina cunninghamiana)

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 [58] (Casuarina cunninghamiana)

Cowie, D. 2001. Jewel Beetles of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club Inc. 41 pp. [25] (Casuarina cunninghamiana)

Hawkeswood, T.J. 2007. Review of the biology of the genus Pseudanilara Thery, 1911 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Calodema 9: 9-11 [10] (Casuarina cunninghamiana)

Williams, G.A. & Williams, T. 1983. A list of the Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of the Sydney basin, New South Wales, with adult food plant records and biological notes on food plant associations. Australian Entomological Magazine 9(6): 81-93 [86] (Casuarina cunninghamiana)

 

General References

Bellamy, C.L. 1990. A new species of Maoraxia Obenberger from Mindanao, with a comments on its relationships within the Anthaxiini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Elytron 3: 187-194 [191]

Burns, G.G. & Burns, A.J. 1992. The distribution of Victorian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) - an ENTRECS project. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Victoria 5: 1-53 [7] (Map 30)

Carter, H.J. 1922. Australian Coleoptera: Notes and new species. No. ii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47(2): 65-82 [67]

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] [288, 302] (purpureicollis, microphaenops)

Carter, H.J. 1940. Australian Buprestidae and the Junk Catalogue. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 380-389 [383]

Cowie, D. 2001. Jewel Beetles of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club Inc. 41 pp. [25] (host and distribution)

Lea, A.M. 1912. The late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn, B.A., and his entomological work. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: v-xl [xxx] (nigricans)

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 [75] (nigra 2699, purpureicollis 2701)

Obenberger, J. 1915. Einige Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Anthaxien (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Coleopterologische Rundschau 4: 73-83 [77] (purpureicollis, nigra in key)

Obenberger, J. 1928. Opuscula Buprestologica I. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Buprestiden (Col.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 92(9-11): 1-350 [267]

Obenberger, J. 1930. Buprestidae 2. pp. 213-568 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 111. [425, 553] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement microphaenops as valid species; nigra as variety of purpureicollis)

Obenberger, J. 1930. Buprestidae 2. pp. 213-568 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 111. [553]

Obenberger, J. 1931. Meine Antwort auf die Kritiken des Herrn H.J. Carter. Entomologische Blätter 27: 77-83 [80] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Oct-2024	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
16-Jun-2022	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	10-Sep-2024	MODIFIED
04-Aug-2021	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
24-Dec-2020	BUPRESTOIDEA	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
05-Mar-2019	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2019	Buprestinae Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2019	Buprestinae Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
28-Jan-2014	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
		03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED