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JEWEL BEETLES
(Coleoptera: Buprestoidea)

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5. Genus MELOBASINA Kerremans, 1900
[Feminine - 8 species - Australasian, Oriental regions]

Melobasina Kerremans 1900b:68; 1903a:144; Obenberger 1923a:17; 1930:420; Bellamy 1985b:420; Hołyński 1993c:27; Bellamy 1997:76; 2002c:62; 2003b:41.
Type species: Melobasina apicalis Kerremans, 1900 (by monotypy).
Nesotrinchus Obenberger 1924a:12; 1926f:97; 1930:359; Bellamy 1985b:419; 1986c:595; 1987c:101; Hołyński 1993c:27 (synonym of Melobasina); Bellamy 1997:76; 2002c:62; 2003b:41.
Type species: Nesotrinchus simondsi Obenberger, 1924 (original designation).
Nosotrinchus Théry 1925c:225 (lapsus calami); 1937:38; 1943:646; Bellamy 1986c:595; 2003b:41.

  
   

 

  
    23. coeruleipennis (Fairmaire) 1877:153 (Dicercomorpha); 1879:97; 1881:265 (record); Kerremans 1885:135; 1892:85 (synonym of wallizi); 1900a:294; 1903a:127 (Haplotrinchus); Théry 1925:225; Obenberger 1930a:358; 1936b:129; Théry 1943:646; Bellamy 1987:101; 1990a:91; Hołyński 1993:27.
Fiji Distribution: Ovalau Vanua Levu Viti Levu [Tonga Vavao]
Type: ZMUH
Specimens examined. Ovalau: no data (USPC, 1 spm). Vanua Levu: Korovuli, 26.x.1977, on Agathis log (BPBM, CLBC); Viti Levu: Colo-i-Suva C.23 ex laulau leaves, 6 Mar 1995/ex. resting on Garcinia mrytifolia leaves (FFDC, 1 spm); Navua Nakavu ex. Mavota 8.vi.94, ex. Gonystylus punctatus, emerge in cage (FFDC, 1 spm).
unavailable name: coeruleipennis Deyrolle (nomen nudum): Thomson 1878b:38; Théry 1943:646.
Synonym: caeruleipennis (Thomson) 1878:38 (Dicercomorpha); Kerremans 1885:134; Obenberger 1930:358; Théry 1943:646.
Type: MNHN		 image
       
    24. simondsi (Obenberger) 1924a:13 (Nesotrinchus); Théry 1925c:225 (synonym of coeruleipennis); Obenberger 1926f:97; 1930:359; Théry 1943:646 (synonym of coeruleipennis); Bellamy 1987:101; 1990a:91.
Fiji Distribution: Viti Levu
Type: NMPC-21992
Specimens examined. Viti Levu: Nukurua Forest, 60-130m 15.x.1979/forest/logged area (BPBM, 1 spm).		 image
   
 
   
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