Chalcophorotaenia cerata ( Kerremans, 1891 ) Bellamy, 2006

Bellamy, C. L., 2006, Studies on the Australian Chalcophorini: a new genus for Chalcophora subfasciata Carter, 1916 and a review of the Pseudotaenia Kerremans, 1903 generic-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 1206 (1), pp. 23-46 : 41-42

Chalcophorotaenia cerata ( Kerremans, 1891) , comb. nov.

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Chalcotaenia cerata Kerremans, 1891 : clix; 1892: 43; Blackburn 1896: 268; Carter 1929: 301. Pseudotaenia cerata: Kerremans 1903: 77 ; 1909: 95; Carter 1922: 65; Obenberger 1926: 146; Bel­

lamy 2002: 55.

Type locality. “S. Australia.”

Specimens examined. The ♂ holotype ( BMNH); 1 ♀ ( CLBC): Queensland, Edungalba [ BBS, S23° 42' 50.6" E149° 51' 03.4"] , Jan. 1962.

Distribution. Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia.

Biology/Bionomy. Mark Hanlon (in litt.) wrote: “ C. cerata is found in sympatry with Pseudotaenia waterhousei on The Round Hill, Round Hill Nature Reserve, NSW. Adults can be collected on the leaves of mallees ( Eucalyptus sp. ) during December and January. Adult emergences appear to be dependant on the level of rainfall in the winter/ spring of the prior year.”

Remarks. While P. frenchi was overlooked and kept in Chalcotaenia by Obenberger (1926) and Carter (1929), C. cerata was left in Pseudotaenia even though Kerremans was the author of this species, the genus Pseudotaenia ( Kerremans 1903) , and the last revisor of that genus ( Kerremans 1909).