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Castiarina cruentata
Another highly colorful jewel beetle about 15mm long. Deep metallic blue including ventral parts and legs but with two and a half pairs of deep orange, broken bands over the wing cases.
Feeding on Leptosperma scoparium in a local nature reserve.
http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/pa...
family: BUPRESTIDAE
subfamily: Buprestinae
tribe: Stigmoderini
subtribe: Stigmoderina
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
Spotted on Nov 12, 2014
Submitted on Nov 12, 2014
6 Comments
Ah found it... (I hope)
amazing image
Good info re those orange tags. Those 'next' ones don't seem to match either then. An undescribed Victorian species :)
Geoff didn't find this one today. C. klugii is not a Victorian species according to Barker but is listed on ALA. I think the two basal (touching base of elytra, ie pronotum) orange spots are much further back in your specimen and it is possibly not klugii. Check the next one?
http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/ento/im...
http://collections.museumvictoria.com.au...
Thanks Leuba. Jewel beetle days are good days.
Lovely shots Mark ! I like the shadows on the orange patch in pic 1 - like sunset.