Species Temognatha vitticollis (Macleay, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stigmodera vitticollis Macleay, W.J. 1863. Descriptions of twenty new species of Buprestidae, belonging to the genus Stigmodera, from the northern parts of Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 22-32 [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) sex unknown, Bowen (as Port Denison), 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 [292].
• Stigmodera delia Thomson, J. 1879. M. James Thomson communique les descriptions qui suivent. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 5 9: xiii-clxv [cxxiv].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP sex unknown, Flumen Paroo, Australia.
• Stigmodera fallaciosa Kerremans, C. 1890. Note sur les Buprestides du Chota-Nagpore. Bulletin ou Comptes-rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 34: cc-ccix [xli].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kerremans, C. 1900. Buprestides nouveaux et remarques synonymiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 282-351 [312]
• 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] [292]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, florivore (associated flora: Bursaria spinosa Cav. [PITTOSPORACEAE] Boxthorn), volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Turner & Hawkeswood (1994) recorded a note about possible hosts for this species.

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 [340] (Bursaria spinosa)

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 [30] (Bursaria spinosa)

Goudie, J.C. 1920. Notes on the Coleoptera of north-western Victoria. Part VIII. Victorian Naturalist 37: 28-34 [32] (Bursaria spinosa)

Turner, J. & Hawkeswood, T.J. 1994. A record of Temognatha (Temognatha) vitticollis (Macleay) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Penrith, New South Wales, Australia. Jewel Beetles 3: 10-13 [10] (Bursaria spinosa)

 

General References

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 [10] (Map 104)

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] [292]

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 [85, 99] (delia 2807, vitticollis 2970)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [749]

Turner, J. & Hawkeswood, T.J. 1994. A record of Temognatha (Temognatha) vitticollis (Macleay) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Penrith, New South Wales, Australia. Jewel Beetles 3: 10-13 [10] (note)

 

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