TASMANIA'S FORGOTTEN JEWEL: DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE JEWEL BEETLE CASTIARINA BREMEI HOPE 1845 (BUPRESTIDAE: BUPTRESTINAE)

摘要

Castiarina bremei is a medium-sized orange-red and blue-black aposcmatically coloured jewel beetle (Plate 1) ranging from 15-20 mm in length. It has been previously recorded in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania (Barker 2006). For reasons that are unclear, this species was omitted from the book Jewel Beetles of Tasmania (Cowie 2001) and it appears to be poorly known in the state and not previously represented in the collections of either the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery (QVMAG) (authors obs.) or the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery (TMAG) (S. Grove pers. comm.).