Bibliography for Merimna atrata (Gory & Laporte, 1837)

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• Blackburn, T. 1896. Coleoptera (exclusive of the Carabidae). pp. 254-308 in Spencer, B. (ed.). Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Part ii. Zoology. London : Dulau iv 431 pp.
• Burns, G.G. & Burns, A.J. 1992. The distribution of Victorian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) - an ENTRECS project. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Victoria 5: 1-53
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• Gory, H.L. & Laporte de Castelnau, F.L. 1837. Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes Coléoptères. Monographie des buprestides. genera: Colobogaster, Chrysobothris, Agrilus; (genera paged separately). Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 2(12-16).
• Goudie, J.C. 1920. Notes on the Coleoptera of north-western Victoria. Part VIII. Victorian Naturalist 37: 28-34
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• Hawkeswood, T.J. 1992. A list and notes on some nocturnally active beetles (Coleoptera) attracted to street lights at Townsville, north-eastern Queensland, Australia. Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 6: 5-8
• Hawkeswood, T.J. 2002. A review of the biology and host plants of Australian Buprestidae (Coleoptera) known to breed in Eucalyptus species (Myrtaceae). Journal of the Entomological Research Society 4(2): 31-58
• Hawkeswood, T.J. 2007. Review of the biology of the genus Merimna Saunders, 1868 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Calodema 9: 12-13
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• Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of the vicinity of King's Sound, N.W. Australia. Part III.–The Sternoxes, Family Buprestidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3(3): 1227-1246 [Date published Dec. 7, 1888]
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• Matthews, E.G. 1985. A guide to the genera of beetles of South Australia, Part 4 Polyphaga: Byrrhoidea, Buprestoidea, Dyropoidea, Elateroidea, Cantharoidea, Derodontoidea, and Bostrichoidea. South Australian Museum, Special Education Bulletin 7: 1-68
• Obenberger, J. 1934. Buprestidae 3. pp. 569-781 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 132.
• Poulton, E.B. 1916. The habits of the Australian buprestid "fire beetle", Merimna atrata Lap. et Gory. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1915(1): iii-iv
• Saunders, E. 1868. A revision of the Australian Buprestidae described by the Rev. F. W. Hope. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 16: 1-67 [Date published April 1868]
• Tepper, J.G.O. 1887. Common native insects of South Australia. A popular guide to South Australian Entomology. Part 1. Coleoptera or beetles. Adelaide : E.S. Wiggs & Son 46 pp.
• Tillyard, R.J. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Angus and Robertson xi 560 pp. 44 pls.
• Webb, G.A. 1987. Beetle visitors to flowers of Angophora hispida (Sm.) Blaxell (Myrtaceae) and some other Angophora in the Sydney Region. Australian Zoologist 23: 59-62
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