Temognatha variabilis, commonly known as the variable jewel beetle, is a beetle of the family Buprestidae.
Temognatha variabilis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
Family: | Buprestidae |
Genus: | Temognatha |
Species: | T. variabilis
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Binomial name | |
Temognatha variabilis (Donovan, 1805)
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Description
editTemognatha variabilis can reach a length of about 35 millimetres (1.4 in). The body colour is highly variable, ranging from yellowish to dark red. Helytra are punctato-striate and may have black markings. The thorax usually show a median black area with yellow or bright red markings on each side. Head and legs are black with greenish reflections.[2]
Larvae live in She-oak tree of Casuarina species (Casuarinaceae).
Distribution
editSee also
editReferences
editBibliography
edit- Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p217 (Stigmodera variabilis ).
- Insects of Australia, George Hangay & Pavel German, Reed New Holland, 2000, p72.
- Peterson, Magnus., 1996: Aspects of female reproductive biology of two southwestern Australian Temognatha species Coleoptera Buprestidae. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 182: 203-208