, FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, A1_x468.jpg "Bubastes barkeri, SAMA 25-039794, male, Quorn (Blackburn's collection), FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, 12.8 × 4.1 mm")
, detail showing scale-like hairs, FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, A2_x468.jpg "Bubastes barkeri, SAMA 25-039794, male, Quorn (Blackburn's collection), detail showing scale-like hairs, FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, 12.8 × 4.1 mm")
, FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, A4_x300.jpg "Bubastes barkeri, SAMA 25-039794, male, Quorn (Blackburn's collection), FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, 12.8 × 4.1 mm")
, FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, A5_x300.jpg "Bubastes barkeri, SAMA 25-039794, male, Quorn (Blackburn's collection), FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, 12.8 × 4.1 mm")
, FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, A7_x300.jpg "Bubastes barkeri, SAMA 25-039794, male, Quorn (Blackburn's collection), FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, 12.8 × 4.1 mm")
, FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, A8_x300.jpg "Bubastes barkeri, SAMA 25-039794, male, aedeagus, Quorn (Blackburn's collection), FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, 12.8 × 4.1 mm")
, FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, A11_x300.jpg "Bubastes barkeri, SAMA 25-039794, male, Quorn (Blackburn's collection), FR, photo by Peter Lang for SA Museum, 12.8 × 4.1 mm")
Actual
size¹:
size¹:
16.0 mm
×
5.2 mm
×
5.2 mm
| male | female | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L1 | 12.8 | n = 1 | 19.2 | n = 1 | ||
| L2 | 12.6 | n = 1 | 18.8 | n = 1 | ||
| W | 4.1 | n = 1 | 6.2 | 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 |
Bronze with weak reddish lustre, ventral side with mid-dense to dense cover of moderately long, widened, flat, pale scale-like hairs; pronotum very convex and arched towards head, about as long as wide; elytra with weak carinae.
Apparently only known in SA by an old Blackburn collection from Quorn which was cited by Bílý & Hanlon 2020 (images of that specimen (SAMA 25-039794) are presented here).
| Legend | P.J.Lang collection vouchered records | |
| other private collection or museum specimens, or sightings |
Interstate collections of this species are strongly associated with Eucalyptus leaves.
| 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. |