, GT, A1_x468.jpg "Diphucrania augustgoerlingi, PL6002, male, on Acacia ramulosa var. ramulosa (PJL 3779), GT, 4.7 × 2.0 mm")
, GT, A2_x468.jpg "Diphucrania augustgoerlingi, PL6002, male, on Acacia ramulosa var. ramulosa (PJL 3779), GT, 4.7 × 2.0 mm")
, GT, A3_x468.jpg "Diphucrania augustgoerlingi, PL6002, male, on Acacia ramulosa var. ramulosa (PJL 3779), GT, 4.7 × 2.0 mm")
, GT, A5_x468.jpg "Diphucrania augustgoerlingi, PL6002, male, on Acacia ramulosa var. ramulosa (PJL 3779), GT, 4.7 × 2.0 mm")
, GT, A5.5_x300.jpg "Diphucrania augustgoerlingi, PL6002, male, from flowering Acacia ramulosa var. ramulosa (PJL 3779), GT, 4.7 × 2.0 mm")
, GT, A6_x300.jpg "Diphucrania augustgoerlingi, PL6002, male, on Acacia ramulosa var. ramulosa (PJL 3779), GT, 4.7 × 2.0 mm")
, GT, A7_x300.jpg "Diphucrania augustgoerlingi, PL6002, male, on Acacia ramulosa var. ramulosa (PJL 3779), GT, 4.7 × 2.0 mm")
, GT, A8_x300.jpg "Diphucrania augustgoerlingi, PL6002, male, on Acacia ramulosa var. ramulosa (PJL 3779), GT, 4.7 × 2.0 mm")
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| L1 | 4.7 | n = 1 | ||||
| L2 | 4.6 | n = 1 | ||||
| W | 2.0 | n = 1 | ||||
| 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 |
Moderately small, dark-coloured and highly reflective; pronotum deep purple, elytra dark black-blue with some purple reflections and white scale-hair spots including a ring of 8; ventral side with an extensive, very dense, white scale-hair patch on the metepisternum and adjoining areas, conspicuous in lateral and ventral views; abdominal marginal scale-hair patches smaller or absent; aedeagus acute about the apex.
This species was described by {Barker 2001).and named after the owner of Marloo Station at Wurarga, Western Australia (WA), August Goerling, who collected the type specimen from that location.
In January 2024, I collected a single specimen from SA. Before that, the only reported occurrences (on The Atlas of Living Australia) were several collections in the western part of WA, plus an intriguingly disjunct collection, identified by Barker, from Fletcher in SE Queensland.
| Legend | P.J.Lang collection vouchered records | |
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| Legend | live emerged adults, count > median value of 1 per quarter month | |
| live emerged adults, count <= median value of 1 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Acacia ramulosa var. ramulosa | 1 | 1 | GT | F |
| 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 | |
| F | Fabaceae | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| position | beetles | sites | |
| on flowering plant | 1 | 1 |
Barker 2001 cites five specimens collected from Acacia at Dedari in Western Australia.
| 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. |