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L1 | 23.6 | 21 – 26.4 | n = 6 | 27.5 | 21 – 31.8 | n = 9 |
L2 | 23.2 | 20.6 – 26.05 | n = 6 | 26.9 | 20.15 – 31.3 | n = 9 |
W | 9.0 | 7.8 – 10.3 | n = 6 | 10.9 | 7.5 – 12.5 | n = 9 |
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 |
There are many SA Museum specimens of this species that have not yet had their data captured.
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 | |||
Eucalyptus leptophylla | 5 | 3 | EP, MU, SE | M | |||
Allocasuarina muelleriana ssp. muelleriana | 2 | 2 | MU, SL | C | |||
Eucalyptus porosa | 2 | 1 | SE | M | |||
Bursaria spinosa ssp. spinosa | 2 | 2 | SL | P | |||
Eucalyptus socialis | 2 | 1 | SE | M | |||
Allocasuarina muelleriana ssp. notocolpica | 1 | 1 | KI | C | |||
Choretrum glomeratum | 1 | 1 | SE | S | |||
Xanthorrhoea semiplana ssp. tateana | 1 | 1 | KI | X |
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 | |
M | Myrtaceae | 9 | 56% | 3 |
C | Casuarinaceae | 3 | 19% | 2 |
P | Pittosporaceae | 2 | 13% | 1 |
S | Santalaceae | 1 | 6% | 1 |
X | Xanthorrhoeaceae | 1 | 6% | 1 |
position | beetles | sites | ||
on flower(s) | 7 | 4 | ||
on flowering plant | 2 | 1 | ||
on foliage or non-flowering plant | 1 | 1 | ||
on dead foliage | 1 | 1 | ||
on plant (unspecified) | 3 | 3 | ||
other | ||||
hovering over | 1 | 1 | ||
on stem | 1 | 1 |
colour | beetles | sites | SA regions¹ |
white | 25 | 3 | SE |
blue | 9 | 1 | KI |
light pink | 5 | 1 | SE |
records | sites | SA regions¹ | family | adult dead | adult ex pupa | pupa | pupa ex larva | larva | |
Allocasuarina muelleriana ssp. muelleriana | 22 | 3 | SL, SE | C | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 14 |
Legend | records | count of breeding adults, pupae and larvae |
sites | count of major sites (unique 10 km grid cells +/- some distinct approximate localities) | |
adult | live = extracted alive; dead = extracted dead as intact or fragmentary remains; ex billet = reared and emerged from stored sections of host; ex pupa = reared from sampled pupa | |
pupa | extracted pupa; pupa ex larva = reared pupa from larva | |
larva | extracted larva (any stage including prepupa) | |
gall (only) | hatched or unhatched gall identified by form and position rather than contents |
Code | records | % | host plant taxa | |
C | Casuarinaceae | 22 | 100% | 1 |
position | records | sites | adult dead | adult ex pupa | pupa | pupa ex larva | larva | |
root | 15 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||
root crown | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
stem base | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
stem | 4 | 1 | 4 | |||||
dead stem | 1 | 1 | 1 |
A.M.P. Stolarski discovered this species breeding in the roots and lower parts of Slaty Oak-bush (Allocasuarina muelleriana ssp. muelleriana) at two sites in the upper South-eastern Region. I found remains of a dead non-emerged adult in the base of a dead trunk of the same plant taxon on upper Fleurieu Peninsula. An amazing iNaturalist observation by M.A. Hura shows a female T. mitchellii excavating below the basal stem and apparently ovipositing on the Kangaroo Island subspecies, A. muelleriana ssp. notocolpica (see images above).
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. |