Pilbara Jewel Beetle Bubastes pilbaraensis Bíly & Hanlon, 2020
Fauna Portal species: 13271
Bubastespilbarensis male, dorsal (HBI N29743-1; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: I. Mitchener (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8577Diagnosis
(after Bíly & Hanlon 2020): Medium-sized (9.5–18.0 mm), subcylindrical, matt, moderately convex with strong sexual dichromatism: male dark blue, violet or blue-green with green scutellum, ventral surface blue-green; female bronze, pronotum with weak brass lustre, ventral surface bronze; ventral surface of both sexes with wide, almost scale-like setae covering completely metepimera and metacoxae, pubescence of abdominal ventrites and femora much sparser.
For the female see: www.padil.gov.au/barrow-island/pest/139961.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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