Cyrioides elateroides
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Cyrioides elateroides is a species of beetle
in the family Buprestidae native to southwest Western Australia
. It was described by the English entomologist Edward Saunders
in 1872, the type specimen collected along the Swan River. Saunders noted it to be similar in coloration to the related C. vittigera
but had its markings were patterned differently.
Beetle
Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...
in the family Buprestidae native to southwest Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
. It was described by the English entomologist Edward Saunders
Edward Saunders (entomologist)
Edward Saunders was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hemiptera and Hymenoptera.He was a businessman associated with Lloyds Bank studying entomology in his spare time. His Catalogus Buprestidarum of 1871 was 'a work whose importance was immediately recognised, and which has...
in 1872, the type specimen collected along the Swan River. Saunders noted it to be similar in coloration to the related C. vittigera
Cyrioides vittigera
Cyrioides vittigera, commonly known as the striped banksia jewel beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae native to Western Australia. It was described by the French naturalists Francis de Laporte de Castelnau and Hippolyte Louis Gory in 1835....
but had its markings were patterned differently.