Blue-green above, and golden-green below with a covering of flattened whitish scale-like hairs; elytra with prominent apical spines.
This is an arid zone species, and the early Tepper collection at the SA Museum attributed to 'Ardrossan' (where Tepper resided on the Yorke Peninsula) probably represents an incorrect locality.
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 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 | ||
Eucalyptus coolabah | 18 | 1 | LE | M | ||
Acacia ligulata | 3 | 3 | LE | 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) | |
Plant names in green are hyperlinked to a matching host species page with plant photos. |
Code | beetles | % | host plant taxa | |
M | Myrtaceae | 18 | 86% | 1 |
F | Fabaceae | 3 | 14% | 1 |
position | beetles | sites | ||
on foliage or non-flowering plant | 3 | 3 | ||
other | ||||
on ground under canopy | 18 | 1 |
Interstate, adults have been collected on Ironwood (Acacia estrophiolata) and on the small but nectar-rich flowers of the Myrtaceous shrub Aluta maisonneuvei, both species that occur in SA, as well as from Eucalyptus and Corymbia Bílý & Hanlon 2020.
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 |