Pseudotaenia spilota Carter, 1916

Bellamy, C. L., 2006, Studies on the Australian Chalcophorini: a new genus for Chalcophora subfasciata Carter, 1916 and a review of the Pseudotaenia Kerremans, 1903 generic-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 1206 (1), pp. 23-46 : 33

Pseudotaenia spilota Carter, 1916

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Pseudotaenia spilota Carter 1916: 141 ; Obenberger 1926: 146; Carter 1929: 300; Bellamy 2002: 56.

Type locality. “ Western Australia: Shark Bay .”

Specimens examined. 1 ♂, 44 km SW Kumarina [ GAS, S25° 06' 18.3" E119° 22' 17.8", elevation 542m], W.A., 28.iii.1995, A. cyperophylla ; 1 ♀, 67 km SW Kumarina [ GAS, S25° 12' 10.3" E119° 20' 8.9", elevation 539m], 3.iv.1996, (both CLBC). The actual distance for the specimen labelled: 44 km SW Kumarina is apparently longer from examination of Google maps, possiby 53 km and that given as 67 km SW Kumarina is probably ca. 67.7 km (A. Sundholm, in litt.) .

Distribution. Australia, central Western Australia.

Biology/Bionomy. Hawkeswood & Peterson (1982) recorded Acacia grasbyi Maiden as a larval host. Recently this species has been collected with the following distributional and host data: Western Australia, Gascoyne River, Middle Branch crossing Great Northern Hwy or 20km ESE of Three Rivers Station Homestead [ GAS, S25° 12' 10.3" E119° 20' 8.9", elevation 539m]. This species has been collected from Acacia cyperophylla cyperophylla F. Muell. ex Benth (Fabaceae) (new adult host record). Michael Powell (in litt.) collected parts of a dead adult (head, prothorax, both elytra and some abdominal sternites) from inside a living branch of A. cyperophylla , approximately 75 mm in diameter, that was broken from a living tree approx 2.5 m. above the ground at Yarlarweelor Station, ca. 150 km NW of Meekatharra, WA in August 1980.

Remarks. The ♀ holotype is from Shark Bay, Western Australia and is held in MVMA ( T­ 12019).