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Family Buprestidae
- This page contains information and pictures about Acacia Jewel Beetles that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 12mm
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- This small Jewel Beetle can easily be found on young Acacia trees in
Alexandra Hill during mid summer. When disturbed, they dropped and flied away.
The beetle was metallic dark brown to dark green in colour with eight white dots forming a circle
on its back. Their larvae are gall makers.
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- We had miss-identified this jewel beetle as Cisseis cupripennis. Thank
to Mark Hanlon for sending us email on the correct ID of this species.
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- Reference:
- 1. Beetles
of Australia - Trevor J Hawkeswood, Angus & Robertson
Publishers, 1987, plate 84 (Cisseis cupripennis).
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p216 (Cisseis leucosticta).
- 3. Cisseis cupripennis (Guérin-Méneville, 1830) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts,
2008.
- 4. Cisseis albosparsa Gory &
Laporte, 1839 - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts,
2008.
- 5. Species
Diphucrania albosparsa (Gory & Laporte, 1839) - Australian Biological Resources Study,
Australian Faunal Directory.
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