Actual
size¹:
size¹:
13.4 mm
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5.0 mm
×
5.0 mm
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| L1 | 13.0 | 10.4 – 15.6 | n = 11 | 14.4 | 11.4 – 15.4 | n = 4 |
| L2 | 12.2 | 10.2 – 13.4 | n = 3 | 15.1 | n = 1 | |
| W | 4.8 | 3.7 – 6.2 | n = 11 | 5.4 | 4.1 – 6 | n = 4 |
| 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 |
Pronotum black & shiny with sparse shallow fine punctures and a large pit towards each posterior corner. Ventral side black with blue reflections. Apical sternite with bifurcate projection in female. Tarsi large.
A Lycid beetle mimic. (Notes about this mimicry series are provided under Castiarina erythroptera.)
| 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 7 per quarter month | |
| live emerged adults, count <= median value of 7 | ||
| 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 | |||
| Leptospermum continentale | 37 | 7 | SL, SE | M | |||
| Grevillea pterosperma | 16 | 4 | EP | P1 | |||
| Leptospermum sp. | 15 | 5 | SL | M | |||
| Myoporum platycarpum | 10 | 1 | MU | S1 | |||
| Bursaria spinosa ssp. spinosa | 6 | 4 | SL | P2 | |||
| Leptospermum myrsinoides | 4 | 3 | SL | M | |||
| Myoporum platycarpum ssp. perbellum | 4 | 1 | EP | S1 | |||
| Myrtaceae sp. | 4 | 2 | SL, KI | M | |||
| Hysterobaeckea behrii | 3 | 2 | EP, SE | M | |||
| Acacia oxycedrus | 1 | 1 | SE | F | |||
| Calytrix tetragona | 1 | 1 | SL | M | |||
| Eucalyptus albopurpurea | 1 | 1 | EP | M | |||
| Eucalyptus remota | 1 | 1 | KI | M | |||
| Exocarpos cupressiformis | 1 | 1 | SL | S2 | |||
| *Kunzea ambigua | 1 | 1 | SL | M | |||
| Leptospermum coriaceum | 1 | 1 | SE | M | |||
| Melaleuca decussata | 1 | 1 | SL | 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) | |
| * | 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) |
| Code | beetles | % | host plant taxa | |
| M | Myrtaceae | 68 | 64% | 8 |
| P1 | Proteaceae | 16 | 15% | 1 |
| S1 | Scrophulariaceae | 14 | 13% | 2 |
| P2 | Pittosporaceae | 6 | 6% | 1 |
| F | Fabaceae | 1 | 1% | 1 |
| S2 | Santalaceae | 1 | 1% | 1 |
| position | beetles | sites | ||
| on flower(s) | 79 | 18 | ||
| on flowering plant | 10 | 6 | ||
| on foliage or non-flowering plant | 2 | 2 | ||
| on plant (unspecified) | 15 | 9 | ||
| other | ||||
| on stems | 1 | 1 | ||
| colour | beetles | sites | SA regions¹ |
| blue | 2 | 1 | SE |
| orange | 2 | 1 | SE |
| yellow | 2 | 1 | SE |
| light pink | 1 | 1 | SE |
| 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. |