Metaxina ornata, Broun, 1909

Johnson, James B., Emberson, Rowan M. & Marris, John M. W., 2008, Biology ofMetaxina ornataBroun (Coleoptera: Metaxinidae), with Notes on Associated Beetle Taxa, The Coleopterists Bulletin 62 (2), pp. 215-219 : 215-219

Additional M. ornata collection information from museum records and literature

While compiling information on M. ornata , we searched the Auckland Institute and War Memorial Museum ( AMNZ), New Zealand Arthropod Collection ( NZAC), the Lincoln University Insect Collection ( LUNZ), the Otago Museum , the Canterbury Museum , and relevant literature for information on additional collection sites to facilitate others’ efforts to build on the information we developed. Four specimens and two literature reference representing six additional collecting sites were found. Data for these collections are listed below .

Whangapeka Vall. 25.11.34 E.S. Gourlay/ Metaxina ornata /C.E. Clarke Collection/AMNZ 31,884 Auckland Museum New Zealand / 1 specimen, AMNZ; Dun Mt. 2000’ 6.12.35 E.S. Gourlay/E.S. Gourlay Acc. 1970 Ent. Div./Illustrated D.W. Helmore 29.10.96/ 1 specimen, NZAC; New Zealand, BR, Lake Rotoiti, 900 m nr Paddys Hut 9.i.1993 J.W.M. Marris/beaten from dead Nothofagus fusca & N. solandri cliffortioides branches/ 1 specimen, LUNZ; New Zealand, ND, Rarawa Bay 2.ii.1992 P. Syrett R.M. Emberson, in tent, campground/ 1 specimen, LUNZ; Broken River, (Authors’ note: The upper reaches of Broken River pass 218 through the Craigieburn Forest Park.), No date, J. H. Lewis/ 1 specimen ( Broun 1909); Lewis Pass of the South Island, New Zealand, No date, R. A. Crowson/ scraping moss, lichen and bark off trunks of living Nothofagus trees at about 2,900 ft (900 m)/1 larval specimen ( Crowson 1964).