Studies on the Australian Chalcophorini: a new genus for Chalcophora subfasciata Carter, 1916 and a review of the Pseudotaenia Kerremans, 1903 generic-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Author
Bellamy, C. L.
text
Zootaxa
2006
2006-05-18
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1206.1.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1206.1.2
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Pseudotaenia spilota
Carter, 1916
(Figures 2, 14)
Pseudotaenia spilota
Carter 1916: 141
;
Obenberger 1926: 146
;
Carter 1929: 300
;
Bellamy 2002: 56
.
Type
locality. “
Western Australia
:
Shark Bay
.”
Specimens examined.
1 ♂
,
44 km
SW Kumarina
[
GAS
,
S25° 06' 18.3"
E119° 22' 17.8"
,
elevation
542m
], W.A.,
28.iii.1995
,
A
.
cyperophylla
;
1 ♀
,
67 km
SW Kumarina
[
GAS
,
S25° 12' 10.3"
E119° 20' 8.9"
,
elevation
539m
],
3.iv.1996
, (both
CLBC
).
The
actual distance for the specimen labelled:
44 km
SW Kumarina
is apparently longer from examination of
Google
maps, possiby
53 km
and that given as
67 km
SW
Kumarina
is probably ca.
67.7 km
(
A. Sundholm
,
in litt
.)
.
Distribution.
Australia
, central
Western Australia
.
Biology/Bionomy.
Hawkeswood & Peterson (1982)
recorded
Acacia grasbyi
Maiden
as a larval host. Recently this species has been collected with the following distributional and host data:
Western Australia
, Gascoyne River, Middle Branch crossing Great Northern Hwy or
20km
ESE of Three Rivers Station Homestead [
GAS
,
S25° 12' 10.3"
E119° 20' 8.9"
, elevation
539m
]. This species has been collected from
Acacia cyperophylla cyperophylla
F. Muell. ex Benth (Fabaceae)
(
new adult host record
). Michael Powell (
in litt
.) collected parts of a dead adult (head, prothorax, both elytra and some abdominal sternites) from inside a living branch of
A
.
cyperophylla
, approximately
75 mm
in diameter, that was broken from a living tree approx
2.5 m
. above the ground at Yarlarweelor Station, ca.
150 km
NW of Meekatharra, WA in
August 1980
.
Remarks. The
♀
holotype
is from Shark Bay,
Western Australia
and is held in
MVMA
(
T
12019).