Prospheres aurantiopictus (Laporte & Gory, 1837) (a species of jewel-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

Natural Values Atlas (Tasmania) record(s) (as Prospheres aurantiopictus). Peter McQuillan (pers. comm.) suggests that this record is probably of an intercepted specimen.

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Buprestoidea

Family: Buprestidae

Subfamily: Polycestinae

Tribe: Prospherini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Host is Araucaria

Hawkeswood, T.J. (2006). Review of the biology of Prospheres aurantiopictus (Laporte & Gory, 1837) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Calodema 5: 3-4.