Species Temognatha obesissima (Thomson, 1879)

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Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Peterson, M. 1989. Taxonomic and correlated nomenclatural notes on Stigmodera obesissima Thomson and Nascioides parryi (Hope) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 4: 205-212 [209]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, florivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Brooks (1965, 1969) recorded this species from "blossom" of Eucalyptus ochrophloia and E. acmenoides, and Peterson (1989) recorded the nominate subspecies from Leptospermum and Baeckea species and ssp. macqueeni from flowering Angophora costata and Eucalyptus spp.

 

General References

Blackburn, T. 1890. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part VIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 13: 121-160 [148]

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] [291] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement saundersi senior synonym)

Obenberger, J. 1933. Notes on the Australian genus Stigmodera Eschsch. (Col. Bupr.). Acta Societatis Entomologicae Cechosloveniae 30: 65-76, 104-112 [68] (obesissima as variety of saundersi)

Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132. [735] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement saundersi as senior synonym, obesissima as variety)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Jun-2022	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	25-Jan-2023	MODIFIED
04-Aug-2021	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	11-Jun-2021	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)