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A Summary of the Published Data on Host Plants and Morphology of Immature Stages of Australian Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), with Additional New Records INSECTA MUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics 0293 A summary of the published data on host plants and morphology of immature stages of Australian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), with additional new records C. L. Bellamy G. A. Williams J. Hasenpusch A. Sundholm CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FL Cover Photo. Calodema plebeia Jordan and several Metaxymorpha gloriosa Blackburn on the flowers of the proteaceous Buckinghamia celcissima F. Muell. in the lowland mesophyll vine forest at Polly Creek, Garradunga near Innisfail in northeastern Queensland. Photo by J. Hasenpusch. INSECTA MUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics 0293 A summary of the published data on host plants and morphology of immature stages of Australian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), with additional new records C. L. Bellamy Plant Pest Diagnostic Branch California Department of Food and Agriculture 3294 Meadowview Road Sacramento, California, 95832, U.S.A. G. A. Williams Research Associate, Australian Museum 6 College Street Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia J. Hasenpusch Australian Insect Farm PO Box 26 Innisfail, Queensland, 4860, Australia A. Sundholm Sydney, Australia Date of Issue: March 22, 2013 CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FL C. L. Bellamy, G. A. Williams, J. Hasenpusch, and A. Sundholm A summary of the published data on host plants and morphology of immature stages of Australian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), with additional new records Insecta Mundi 0293: 1-172 ZooBank Registered: urn:lsid:zoobank..org:pub:9F584CD5-CE66-4F29-9E41-85158EF94F64 Published in 2013 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P. O. 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Bellamy Plant Pest Diagnostic Branch California Department of Food and Agriculture 3294 Meadowview Road Sacramento, California, 95832, U.S.A. [email protected] G. A. Williams Research Associate, Australian Museum 6 College Street Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia [email protected] J. Hasenpusch Australian Insect Farm PO Box 26 Innisfail, Queensland, 4860, Australia [email protected] A. Sundholm Sydney, Australia [email protected] Abstract. A summary is given of the published host plant and descriptive immature stage morphology data for 671 species and 11 subspecies in 54 genera of Australian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). New host data for 155 species and 3 subspecies in 17 genera including the first published data for 75 species are included. Key words. Coleoptera, Buprestidae, host plants, immatures, Australia “As the roses among flowers, so are the members of the Buprestidae pre-eminent in respect of ever graceful form, and, frequently, splendor of colour and pattern.” J. G. O. Tepper (1887: 15). Introduction Volume 29.5 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of the Zoological Catalogue of Australia (Bellamy 2002) re- viewed the taxonomic status of the Australian Buprestidae, popularly know as ‘jewel beetles’. However this volume provided relatively few data on the host plant associations, nor did it provide detailed data on the distribution of individual species (e.g. the three reviews by Hawkeswood 2006k, Westcott 2003, Williams 2003). Such information is important in establishing a more informed indication of the biology, ecological and evolutionary associations, and zoogeographical patterns of the fauna, and not the least of all, the role of the flower-frequenting taxa as pollinators (e.g. Hawkeswood 1990a, Williams and Adam 2010, Webb 1986a). In a world of increasing climate change and fragmentation of native vegetation such data are essential for the foundation of management strategies and the conservation of biodiversity. Whilst we have attempted to gather together the known published records, nevertheless, we acknowledge that the records presented here are likely to be incomplete considering the potential for records to be found in obscurity. Whilst additional data, by virtue of specimen labels, resides in private collections, and no doubt within that of individual institutions, the capture of this information lies outside the scope of 1 2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0293, March 2013 BELLAMY ET AL. our review. To this extent we hope that the review will act as a catalyst for the publication of collection data by others. The recording of host plant data for Australian Buprestidae dates to much earlier days. Even the earliest authors included biological data in their respective works if there was something to record. However sensitivity of both the collectors and the describers to ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘on what’ really didn’t begin to happen until the late 19th century (e.g. Blackburn 1887). About the same time, economi- cally important species became the subject for more intensive study principally to understand the com- plete biology as a way to protect crops or timbers, etc. from attack (Froggatt 1893a, 1893b). In this same period works appeared that listed an entire buprestid fauna of a certain habitat, vegetation community or even a single plant species (e.g. Goudie 1902, 1920). Collectors of the 20th century (e.g. Adams, Armstrong, Brooks, Brown, Goerling, etc.) often passed their specimens to H. J. Carter, a research associate of the Australian Museum, Sydney, who would describe the new species, noting any botanical information that was communicated to him by the respec- tive collector. And since much of Carter’s long list of descriptive and revisionary papers has relatively little biological or botanical data included, it seems that these collectors did not often label their speci- mens with host plant names. Carter’s (1933) volume on his travels in the Australian bush revealed much more biological data, although often not very specific, about his collecting successes. Most collectors did not publish their observations, or published only minor notes (e.g. Adams 1966). Brooks, however, made substantial contributions through a checklist (Brooks 1941) of Queensland buprestids and most impor- tantly four papers detailing food plants of some north Queensland beetles (Brooks 1948a, 1948b, 1965, 1969). Certain short papers in popular geographical magazines have been published to illustrate a small part of this beautiful fauna as a way to introduce the public to the mostly unseen biological diversity of life found
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