Variegate Jewel Beetle - Castiarina variegata

Family Buprestidae

This page contains information and pictures about Variegate Plant Jewel Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.


Body length 12mm

On Oct 2004 in White Hill, we found this Jewel Beetle alone on a young gum tree.



We could not identify the ID of this jewel beetle. Mark Hanlon sent us email and advised that : "the Castiarina you have pictured from White Hill is Castiarina variegate. It is unique among the Castiarina’s in that the male has tripectinate antenna’s. Your specimen is a female with ‘normal’ antenna. It is found from central NSW to southern Queensland. I caught one on Kunzea flowers near Taree in early January one year."

Here we would like to thank Mark Hanlon again.




Reference:
1. Castiarina variegata (Blackburn, 1892) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.
2. Castiarina variegata, BUPRESTIDAE, Elateriformia (Coleoptera) - Lawrence, J.F., Hastings, A.M., Dallwitz, M.J., Paine, T.A., and Zurcher, E.J. 2000 onwards. Elateriformia (Coleoptera): descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval for families and subfamilies. Version: 9th October 2005. http://delta-intkey.com.