Buprestidae of Fiji

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(Coleoptera: Buprestoidea)

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		BUPRESTINAE - MELOBASINI

		9. Genus *MELOBASIS* Laporte & Gory, 1837 [Feminine - 156 species, 2 subspecies - Australasian, Oriental regions] Abrobapta Dejean 1833:80; 1836:90; Lacordaire 1857:47; Kerremans 1892:103; Obenberger 1930:428; Bellamy 1985b:420; 1987:595; 1998e:379; 2003b:11, 65. Type species: genus-group name unavailable, no valid species originally included. Buprestis (Melobasis) Laporte & Gory 1837:118 (Buprestis, 9th Division). Melobasis: Lacordaire 1857:47; Deyrolle 1864:69 (Malaysia spp. revision); Saunders 1868a:13; Gemminger & Harold 1869:1383; Saunders 1871:44; Kerremans 1885:136; Masters 1886:72; 1888:314; Kerremans 1892:103; 1893a:109; 1903a:157; Théry 1923c:51; Carter 1923b:64 (AUS spp. revision); Obenberger 1928k:104; 1930:37; Carter 1929c:284; Obenberger 1930:427; Bellamy 1985b:420; 1987:595; Volkovitsh & Hawkeswood 1995:11; Bílý & Volkovitsh 1996:326; Bílý 2000e:111; Bellamy 2002c:142; 2003b:65. Type species: Buprestis cupriceps Kirby, 1818 (subsequent designation: Bellamy 1998d:11).

		34. brevicollis (Théry) 1937:42 (Diceropygus). [subgenus Diceropygus] Fiji Distribution: Viti Levu Type: MCZC-22512 Specimens examined. Holotype. Fijis:Viti Levu, Nadarivatu, W. M. Mann	image

		35. cupreoaenea Fairmaire 1878b:286; 1881:266 (redescription, record); Kerremans 1885:136 (Melabasis); 1892:104; 1903a:159; Obenberger 1930:429. [subgenus Melobasis] Fiji Distribution: Viti Levu Type: MNHN Specimens examined.	image



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