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L1 | 10.6 | 8.8 – 11.35 | n = 10 | 11.4 | 8.9 – 12.8 | n = 5 |
L2 | 9.8 | 8.75 – 10.6 | n = 5 | 8.8 | n = 1 | |
W | 3.8 | 3.05 – 4.1 | n = 10 | 4.1 | 2.95 – 4.7 | n = 5 |
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 |
Head and pronotum usually greenish with gold or coppery reflections, or sometimes red; elytra straw-coloured to yellow. The ventral side of the abdomen is largely testaceous (translucent light-brown) in males but entirely metallic in females. Similar in appearance to C. subnotata, which belongs in a different species group and has the abdomen testaceous ventrally in both sexes, and a less rounded body shape in profile, with straighter-sided elytra often bearing a brown mark in their posterior half.
A summer-emerging species that is sometimes very abundant in the blossoms of summer-flowering Mallee Eucalypts, particularly Narrow-leaf Mallee Eucalyptus leptophylla. The predominantly yellowish colouration pattern is typical of a number of summer-emerging Buprestid species that are adapted to feeding in Eucalypt flowers, including the superficially similar C. subnotata which often occurs with it.
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 |
Legend | live emerged adults, count > median value of 4 per quarter month | |
live emerged adults, count <= median value of 4 | ||
live non-emerged adults only, for that quarter month | ||
12 | number of active beetles for that quarter month |
beetles | sites | SA regions¹ | family | position on host plant | ||||
Eucalyptus leptophylla | 137 | 14 | EP, MU, SE | M | ||||
Melaleuca lanceolata | 8 | 2 | EP | M | ||||
Eucalyptus dumosa | 5 | 2 | EP | M | ||||
Melaleuca brevifolia | 2 | 1 | EP | M | ||||
Eucalyptus calcareana | 1 | 1 | EP | M |
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) | |
Plant names in green are hyperlinked to a matching host species page with plant photos. |
Code | beetles | % | host plant taxa | |
M | Myrtaceae | 153 | 100% | 5 |
position | beetles | sites | |
on flower(s) | 27 | 2 | |
on flowering plant | 123 | 16 | |
on foliage or non-flowering plant | 2 | 1 | |
on plant (unspecified) | 1 | 1 |
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. |