The recently described buprestid genus Petersonia Hawkeswood, 2007 is proposed as a new subjective junior synonym of the large Australasian genus Castiarina Gory & Laporte, 1838. A brief discussion about male antennal modifications in Buprestidae is given. A list of criteria and considerations on erecting genus-group names from an earlier paper by Holm & Schoeman (1999) is repeated verbatim.
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25 October 2007
New Genus-Group Synonymy in Stigmoderini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
C. L. Bellamy,
Ulf Nylander
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