Neobuprestis (Balthasarella) frenchi Blackburn

Neobuprestis (Balthasarella) frenchi (Blackburn) (Figs. 3, 5) Strigoptera frenchi Blackburn 1892: 500 Neobuprestis frenchi (Blackburn); Kerremans 1903: 137; Carter 1924: 524; 1929: 282; Obenberger 1930: 362; Bellamy 2002: 84; 2008: 1021. Balthasarella melandryoides Obenberger 1958 (syn. n.): 487; Cobos 1974: 104; Bellamy 1985: 419; 1986: 595; 1994: 300; 2002: 82; 2003: 52, fig. 259; 2008: 1022. Material examined: Holotype �� (NMVA) Strigoptera frenchi Blackburn. Fernshaw / Type // Type [red label]// Strigoptera Frenchi // C. French's Coll 5.11.08 // Syntype T- 10700 Strigoptera frenchi [red label]. The specimen agrees with the original description in which the locality is given as Gippsland. Other material: Victoria: 2 �� no further data; 1 �� Poley Ra[nge], 26.21.46; 1 �� Lake Mtn. Feb. 1942, R.T. Pescott; 1 �� Ben Cairn, Jan 1924, T. Tragellas [name partly illegible], F.E.Wilson coll.; 1 �� no data; all in NMVA; 1 �� S. Gippsland in NMWC. New South Wales: 1 unsexed (TMSHC) Sawpit Creek, Kosciusko N.P., 21 Jan. 1998, T.M.S. Hanlon.
Published as part of Levey, B. & Bellamy, C. L., 2013, A taxonomic revision of Neobuprestis Kerremans (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with the description of a new genus and two new species, pp. 225-240 in Zootaxa 3681 (3) on page 229, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/219605
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