, EP, H1_x300.jpg "Castiarina cupreoflava, PL4600A, adult host plant, Myoporum insulare (PJL 3442), EP, 1.4 km SSW Cape Donington, Lincoln NP, 2 Oct 2019")
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13.5 mm
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5.1 mm
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5.1 mm
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| L1 | 13.5 | 12.85 – 14.3 | n = 3 | |||
| L2 | 13.3 | 12.75 – 14.1 | n = 3 | |||
| W | 5.1 | 4.9 – 5.35 | n = 3 | |||
| Legend | L1 | length from clypeus/frons to elytral apex (mean, range, sample size) |
| L2 | length from anterior of edge of eyes to elytral apex | |
| W | maximum width with elytra fully closed |
This species is mostly restricted to coastal habitat where its adult (and probable larval) host plant grows; both the beetle and its host are widely distributed in southern Australia
| Legend | P.J.Lang collection vouchered records | |
| other private collection or museum specimens, or sightings |
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| Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
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9 | number of active beetles, actually recorded in that quarter-month | |
| actual count > 2 (median) | ||
| actual count <= 2 (median) | ||
| beetles | sites | SA regions¹ | family | position on host plant | |||||
| Myoporum insulare | 78 | 18 | EP, MU, SL, KI | S | |||||
| Myoporum petiolatum | 3 | 2 | SL | S | |||||
| Myoporum platycarpum | 3 | 1 | MU | S | |||||
| *Leptospermum laevigatum | 1 | 1 | SL | M | |||||
| Melaleuca gibbosa | 1 | 1 | KI | M | |||||
| Scaevola crassifolia | 1 | 1 | SL | G |
| Legend | beetles | count of beetles collected from, or sighted on, host plant taxon |
| sites | count of major sites (unique 10 km grid cells +/- some distinct approximate localities) | |
| * | indicates alien (non-native) plant occurrences, either wild or planted (the species may be alien in SA, or native in parts of its SA range) | |
| Plant names in green are hyperlinked to a matching host species page with plant photos. | ||
| Code | beetles | % | host plant taxa | |
| S | Scrophulariaceae | 84 | 97% | 3 |
| M | Myrtaceae | 2 | 2% | 2 |
| G | Goodeniaceae | 1 | 1% | 1 |
| position | beetles | sites | ||
| on flower(s) | 3 | 3 | ||
| on flowering plant | 45 | 4 | ||
| on foliage or non-flowering plant | 13 | 9 | ||
| on plant (unspecified) | 24 | 9 | ||
| other | ||||
| hovering over | 2 | 1 | ||
The SA adult host records are largely confined to the Common or Coastal Boobialla Myoporum insulare, but there are two SA Museum collections made at St Agnes on the NE side of Adelaide in 1972 from a related species, M. petiolatum.
| ¹ Legend | regions | SA State Herbarium regions (map) EA: Eastern, EP: Eyre Peninsula, FR: Flinders Ranges, GT: Gairdner-Torrens, KI: Kangaroo Island, LE: Lake Eyre, MU: Murray, NL: Northern Lofty, NU: Nullarbor, NW: North-Western, SE: South-Eastern, SL: Southern Lofty, YP: Yorke Peninsula |
| size | The ellipse is the correct size when printed, indicative on a desktop screen, and likely to be wrong on a mobile device. |