Australian Jewel Beetles

Acknowledgements
Preface

1. Introduction
Fossil history
Gondwanan and extra-continental associations
Warning colouration, defence and predators
Life histories
Plant associations
Buprestids as pollinators

Colour section 1: Beetle specimens

2. Composition, ecology and distribution of Australian genera
Subfamily Polycestinae
Subfamily Chrysochroinae
Subfamily Buprestinae
Subfamily Stigmoderinae
Subfamily Agrilinae

Colour section 2: Live beetles

3. Regional buprestid faunas
North Queensland and the Wet Tropics
Central Queensland
Central and western New South Wales
Sydney and the Blue Mountains
Barrington Tops
New England Tablelands and associated montane rainforests
Littoral rainforests of northern New South Wales
Alpine and montane southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria
North-western Victoria
South Australia
South-west Western Australia
Tasmania
Colour section 3: Habitat

4. Threats and conservation

Appendix 1. List of buprestid genera recorded from Australia
Appendix 2. Summary of larval and adult plant relationships
Appendix 3. Pollen loads from Buprestidae collected in lowland subtropical rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest
Appendix 4. Early taxonomists and collectors: 1770-1950
Appendix 5. Divisions of geological time
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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• Genética (não médica)
• Biodiversidade
• Insectos (entomologia)
• Ciência ecológica, a biosfera

Australia's buprestid fauna; Buprestidae; Jewel beetles; Coleoptera; Invertebrate; Wood-boring beetles; Metallic beetles; Flatheaded borers; Insects