Cyrioides
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Cyrioides is a genus of beetle
s in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:
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...
s in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:
- Cyrioides australisCyrioides australisCyrioides australis, commonly known as the dark blue banksia jewel beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae native to southeastern Australia. It was described by the French entomologist Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1835. Banksia integrifolia has been recorded as a host plant....
(Boisduval, 1835) - dark blue banksia jewel beetle (Eastern Australia) - Cyrioides cincta (Carter, 1908) (Queensland)
- Cyrioides elateroidesCyrioides elateroidesCyrioides 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....
(Saunders, 1872) (southwest Western Australia) - Cyrioides imperialisCyrioides imperialisCyrioides imperialis, commonly known as the banksia jewel beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae native to southeastern Australia. The Danish naturalist Johan Christian Fabricius was the first to describe it in 1801, and it still bears its original name.The adult measures 3.8 cm ...
(Fabricius, 1801) - banksia jewel beetle (Eastern Australia and Tasmania) - Cyrioides sexspilota (Carter, 1920) (Queensland)
- Cyrioides vittigeraCyrioides vittigeraCyrioides 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....
(Laporte & Gory, 1835) - striped banksia jewel beetle (Western Australia)