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L1 | 9.6 | 9.15 – 9.8 | n = 4 | |||
L2 | 9.4 | 9.05 – 9.65 | n = 4 | |||
W | 3.7 | 3.6 – 3.8 | 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 |
Predominantly green excepting the elytra (coppery-) purplish to magenta; pronotum sometimes grey-blue or blue-green; puncturation very even; body shape relaltively broad.
The type collection is from near Beltana in the northern Flinders Ranges, and there is recent collection made in 1999 from Arkaroola in the same region. B. Levey (pers. comm., Jul. 2020) tentatively identified PL4473 from the image shown above as a colour variant of this species.
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 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 | ||
Cassinia laevis ssp. laevis | 2 | 1 | FR | A |
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 | |
A | Asteraceae | 2 | 100% | 1 |
position | beetles | sites | |
on plant (unspecified) | 2 | 1 |
colour | beetles | sites | SA regions¹ | |
bright green | 3 | 1 | SE | |
blue | 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. |