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Family Buprestidae
- This page contains information and pictures about Pea Flower Jewel Beetles that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 12mm
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- Found it jewel beetle in Daisy Hill on early summer Sep 2008. It was resting on
yellow flowers of Wallum Wedge Pea (Gompholobium virgatum).
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- Thank
to Mark Hanlon for sending us email about the ID of this species.
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- On Oct 2009, we found a lot in them on the host plants in Daisy Hill.
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- Wallum Wedge Pea
 - Gompholobium virgatum - Host plant
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- Reference:
- 1.
Wild
Plants of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum, 2003, p75.
- 2.
Ethonion reichei (Chevrolat, 1838)
- Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts,
2008.
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