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L1 | 6.4 | 6.1 – 6.7 | n = 9 | 6.7 | 5.85 – 7.4 | n = 6 |
L2 | 6.4 | 6.1 – 6.65 | n = 5 | 6.1 | 5.9 – 6.3 | n = 2 |
W | 2.7 | 2.5 – 2.8 | n = 9 | 2.9 | 2.5 – 3.2 | n = 6 |
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 |
Elytra black with scattered irregular white hair-scale patches. Head, pronotum and scutellum copper to gold in females, green in males.
Legend | P.J.Lang collection vouchered records | |
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Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
Legend | live emerged adults, count > median value of 2 per quarter month | |
live emerged adults, count <= median value of 2 | ||
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 | ||||
Leucopogon rufus | 18 | 2 | SL | E | ||||
Leptospermum coriaceum | 6 | 3 | EP | M | ||||
Leucopogon parviflorus | 3 | 2 | SE | E | ||||
Hysterobaeckea behrii | 3 | 1 | SE | M | ||||
Grevillea pterosperma | 2 | 1 | SE | P | ||||
Acacia pycnantha | 1 | 1 | NL | F | ||||
Allocasuarina muelleriana ssp. muelleriana | 1 | 1 | EP | C | ||||
Calytrix tetragona | 1 | 1 | SL | M | ||||
Hakea mitchellii | 1 | 1 | SE | P |
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) |
Code | beetles | % | host plant taxa | |
E | Ericaceae | 21 | 58% | 2 |
M | Myrtaceae | 10 | 28% | 3 |
P | Proteaceae | 3 | 8% | 2 |
C | Casuarinaceae | 1 | 3% | 1 |
F | Fabaceae | 1 | 3% | 1 |
position | beetles | sites | ||
on flower(s) | 2 | 2 | ||
on flowering plant | 8 | 3 | ||
on foliage or non-flowering plant | 18 | 5 | ||
on plant (unspecified) | 6 | 2 | ||
other | ||||
on stems | 2 | 1 |
Adults have been collected from two species of Beard-heaths Leucopogon, with large numbers found on one of these, Ruddy Beard-heath L. rufus. It is suspected that Leucopogon and possibly other Heaths (family Ericaceae, formerly Epacridaceae} may be larval hosts. There is some support for this with a dead larva of subfamily Agrilinae being discovered in the stem base of a L. rufus plant on which adults had previously been collected.
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. |