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L1 | 13.0 | 10.4 – 15.6 | n = 14 | 14.9 | 11.4 – 17.1 | n = 5 |
L2 | 12.3 | 10.2 – 13.6 | n = 6 | 15.9 | 15.05 – 16.7 | n = 2 |
W | 4.8 | 3.7 – 6.2 | n = 14 | 5.7 | 4.1 – 6.75 | n = 5 |
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 |
Pronotum black & shiny with sparse shallow fine punctures and a large pit towards each posterior corner. Ventral side black with blue reflections. Apical sternite with bifurcate projection in female. Tarsi large.
A Lycid beetle mimic. (Notes about this mimicry series are provided under Castiarina erythroptera.)
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 8 per quarter month | |
live emerged adults, count <= median value of 8 | ||
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 | ||||
Leptospermum continentale | 70 | 9 | SL, KI, SE | M | ||||
Leptospermum sp. | 18 | 6 | SL, KI | M | ||||
Grevillea pterosperma | 16 | 4 | EP | P1 | ||||
Myoporum platycarpum | 10 | 1 | MU | S1 | ||||
Bursaria spinosa ssp. spinosa | 7 | 4 | SL | P2 | ||||
Hysterobaeckea behrii | 5 | 3 | EP, MU, SE | M | ||||
Leptospermum coriaceum | 5 | 4 | MU, SE | M | ||||
Leptospermum myrsinoides | 4 | 3 | SL | M | ||||
Myoporum platycarpum ssp. perbellum | 4 | 1 | EP | S1 | ||||
Myrtaceae sp. | 4 | 2 | SL, KI | M | ||||
Acacia brachybotrya | 1 | 1 | MU | F | ||||
Acacia oxycedrus | 1 | 1 | SE | F | ||||
Acacia victoriae ssp. victoriae | 1 | 1 | FR | F | ||||
Calytrix tetragona | 1 | 1 | SL | M | ||||
Eucalyptus albopurpurea | 1 | 1 | EP | M | ||||
Eucalyptus remota | 1 | 1 | KI | M | ||||
Exocarpos cupressiformis | 1 | 1 | SL | S2 | ||||
*Kunzea ambigua | 1 | 1 | SL | M | ||||
Melaleuca decussata | 1 | 1 | SL | M |
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 | |
M | Myrtaceae | 110 | 73% | 8 |
P1 | Proteaceae | 16 | 11% | 1 |
S1 | Scrophulariaceae | 14 | 9% | 2 |
P2 | Pittosporaceae | 7 | 5% | 1 |
F | Fabaceae | 3 | 2% | 3 |
S2 | Santalaceae | 1 | 1% | 1 |
position | beetles | sites | ||
on flower(s) | 121 | 23 | ||
on flowering plant | 10 | 6 | ||
on foliage or non-flowering plant | 4 | 4 | ||
on plant (unspecified) | 16 | 10 | ||
other | ||||
on stems | 1 | 1 |
colour | beetles | sites | SA regions¹ | |
blue | 3 | 2 | MU, SE | |
orange | 2 | 1 | SE | |
yellow | 2 | 1 | SE | |
light pink | 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. |