Agrilus hypoleucus

	male	female
L1	8.7	6.3 – 10	n = 102	9.9	5.3 – 11.4	n = 77
L2	8.9	7.15 – 9.9	n = 33	9.9	6.7 – 11.25	n = 21
W	2.2	1.6 – 2.5	n = 102	2.7	1.4 – 3.15	n = 77

male

female

8.7

6.3 – 10

n = 102

9.9

5.3 – 11.4

n = 77

8.9

7.15 – 9.9

n = 33

9.9

6.7 – 11.25

n = 21

2.2

1.6 – 2.5

n = 102

2.7

1.4 – 3.15

n = 77

Anterior prosternal lobe with a protruding 'tooth'. First segment on hind feet (metatarsomere) very elongate, especially in males.

This is an extremely common species in SA. Tepper 1887 (on p.20) was most likely referring to this species (and not Agrilus australasiae) when he wrote:
'The larvae live in the bark and splinth wood of the Golden Wattle, even quite young ones, and when present in number sometimes destroy the trees altogether, in fact they would rank among the chief insect enemies of the Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) were they not so eagerly pursued by our native insect-feeding birds'.

Adults occur on a variety of Acacia species and in SA they are particularly common on Acacia pycnantha (Golden Wattle) and A. retinodes (Wirilda), where they can sometimes be observed feeding on the foliage (phyllodes). It is known to breed in the live and dead wood of both these species and in A. wattsiana, but probably uses many other Acacia species also. Turner 2001b reported A. longifolia as a larval host plant in NSW with breeding established in dead branches.

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

Legend
9	number of active beetles, actually recorded in that quarter-month
	actual count > 24 (median)
	actual count <= 24 (median)
	live non-emerged (inactive) beetles only

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)
Plant names in green are hyperlinked to a matching host species page with plant photos.

Code		beetles	%	host plant taxa
F	Fabaceae	1031	98%	16
M	Myrtaceae	10	1%	3
C1	Casuarinaceae	7	1%	2
C2	Cupressaceae	2	0%	1
S1	Santalaceae	2	0%	1
C3	Cyperaceae	1	0%	1
S2	Sapindaceae	1	0%	1
S3	Scrophulariaceae	1	0%	1

position	beetles	sites
on flower(s)	7	2
on flowering plant	96	18
on foliage or non-flowering plant	864	66
on dead foliage	1	1
on plant (unspecified)	85	25
other
on fruit	1	1
unknown	1	1

Legend		P.J.Lang collection vouchered records
		other private collection or museum specimens, or sightings

colour	beetles	sites	SA regions¹
bright green	4	3	SE
purple-pink	1	1	SE

	records	sites	SA regions¹	family	adult live	adult dead	adult ex billet	adult ex pupa	pupa	larva
Acacia pycnantha	104	9	MU, SL, SE	F	9	3	44	18	27	3
Acacia retinodes	16	1	MU	F		1	15
Acacia wattsiana	2	1	NL	F		1	1
Acacia longifolia	1	1	SE	F			1
*Acacia pycnantha	1	1	SE	F		1

Legend	records	count of breeding adults, pupae and larvae
	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)
	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
Plant names in green are hyperlinked to a matching host species page with plant photos.

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.