Species Temognatha lessonii (Gory, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stigmodera lessonii Gory, H.L. 1841. Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes Coléoptères. Supplement aux Buprestides. genera: Melanophila (pp. 73–77), Buprestis (pp. 107–111, 126), pp. 127–356, Stigmodera, Colobogaster, Chrysobothris, Belionota, Castalia, Poecilonota, Zemina, Stenogaster, Agrilus, Amorphosoma, Eumerus, Coraebus, Anthaxia, Evagora, Sphenoptera, Sponsor, Brachys, Trachys, Aphanisticus. Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 4(43-52) 73-356 pp. [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Nouvelle-Hollande (Swan River).
• Stigmodera acutithorax Thomson, J. 1857. Description de trente-trois espèces de Coléoptères. Archives Entomologiques 1: 109-127 [113].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).

 

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 [533]
• 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] [290]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, florivore (associated flora: Nuytsia floribunda (Labill.) R.Br. ex G.Don [LORANTHACEAE] Christmas Tree (on flowers); Melaleuca sp. [MYRTACEAE] Tea-tree (on flowers)), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Associated Flora References

Golding, M.R. 2006. A pictorial field guide to the beetles of Australia. Joondalup, Western Australia : Ocean Publishing Part 1: Stigmoderini pp. 50. [18] (Nuytsia floribunda)

Hanlon, T.M.S. 1981. Jewel beetles. Hemisphere 26(6): 322-326 [323] (Nuytsia floribunda)

 

General References

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] [290]

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 [89] (2857)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [715]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Oct-2024	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
10-Sep-2024	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	10-Sep-2024	MOVED
16-Jun-2022	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	03-Oct-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