Melobasis

***Melobasis*** er en artsrik slekt av biller som hører til familien praktbiller (Buprestidae).

## Utseende
Små til middelsstore, blanke, mer eller mindre metalliske praktbiller. Dekkvingene har vanligvis tydelige punktrader og er tilspissede og sagtakkede i spissen.

## Utbredelse
Slekten er utbredt i Australia.

## Systematisk inndeling

Inndelingen følger 

* Ordenen biller, Coleoptera
** Underordenen Polyphaga
*** Overfamilien praktbiller, Buprestoidea
**** Familien praktbiller, Buprestidae
***** Underfamilien Buprestinae Leach, 1815
****** Stammen Melobasini Bily, 2000
******* Slekten *Melobasis* Laporte & Gory, 1837 - 157 arter

### Liste over artene
* *[[Melobasis abigailae]]* Hawkeswood & Turner, 2009
* *[[Melobasis abnormis]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis adonis]]* (Obenberger, 1938)
* *[[Melobasis aenea]]* Kerremans, 1903
* *[[Melobasis aeneipennis]]* Deyrolle, 1864
* *[[Melobasis albertisii]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis andersoni]]* Blackburn, 1887
* *[[Melobasis apicalis]]* Macleay, 1872
* *[[Melobasis aruensis]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis aurata]]* Deyrolle, 1864
* *[[Melobasis auribasis]]* Fauvel, 1891
* *[[Melobasis auricollis]]* (Kerremans, 1895)
* *[[Melobasis aurocincta]]* Carter, 1930
* *[[Melobasis aurocyanea]]* Carter, 1937
* *[[Melobasis austera]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis australis]]* (Thomson, 1879)
* *[[Melobasis bellula]]* Carter, 1939
* *[[Melobasis bimetallica]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis brevicollis]]* (Théry, 1937)
* *[[Melobasis browni]]* Carter, 1937
* *[[Melobasis buprestoides]]* (Obenberger, 1922)
* *[[Melobasis buruana]]* (Obenberger, 1932)
* *[[Melobasis caledonica]]* (Obenberger, 1923)
* *[[Melobasis callichloris]]* Kerremans, 1898
* *[[Melobasis candens]]* Obenberger, 1942
* *[[Melobasis caudata]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis chrysobothroides]]* Deyrolle, 1864
* *[[Melobasis chrysomelina]]* Théry, 1911
* *[[Melobasis circumflexa]]* Kerremans, 1888
* *[[Melobasis coerulea]]* Kerremans, 1892
* *[[Melobasis conica]]* (Laporte & Gory, 1837)
* *[[Melobasis conicicollis]]* Obenberger, 1942
* *[[Melobasis connicki]]* Baudon, 1968
* *[[Melobasis costata]]* Macleay, 1872
* *[[Melobasis costifera]]* Thomson, 1879
* *[[Melobasis cruentata]]* Thomson, 1879
* *[[Melobasis cupreoaenea]]* Fairmaire, 1878
* *[[Melobasis cupreovittata]]* Saunders, 1876
* *[[Melobasis cupriceps]]* (Kirby, 1818)
* *[[Melobasis cupricollis]]* Kerremans, 1898
* *[[Melobasis cuprina]]* Kerremans, 1898
* *[[Melobasis curta]]* Kerremans, 1903
* *[[Melobasis cyaneipennis]]* Boheman, 1858
* *[[Melobasis derbyensis]]* Blackburn, 1892
* *[[Melobasis dives]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis dohertyi]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis eichhorni]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis elderi]]* Blackburn, 1892
* *[[Melobasis empyria]]* Olliff, 1889
* *[[Melobasis epistomalis]]* Obenberger, 1942
* *[[Melobasis fairmairei]]* Kerremans, 1903
* *[[Melobasis fasciata]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis formosa]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis fulgurans]]* Thomson, 1879
* *[[Melobasis gloriosa]]* (Laporte & Gory, 1837)
* *[[Melobasis gratiosissima]]* Thomson, 1879
* *[[Melobasis hesperica]]* (Pochon, 1967)
* *[[Melobasis hoscheki]]* (Obenberger, 1916)
* *[[Melobasis hypocrita]]* Erichson, 1842
* *[[Melobasis igniceps]]* Saunders, 1876
* *[[Melobasis ignipicta]]* Kerremans, 1900
* *[[Melobasis illidgei]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis incerta]]* Kerremans, 1892
* *[[Melobasis innocua]]* Thomson, 1879
* *[[Melobasis insularis]]* (Théry, 1923)
* *[[Melobasis interstitialis]]* Blackburn, 1900
* *[[Melobasis intricata]]* Deyrolle, 1864
* *[[Melobasis iridicolor]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis jacquelinae]]* Turner & Hawkeswood, 2003
* *[[Melobasis jakowleffi]]* Kerremans, 1903
* *[[Melobasis kaszabi]]* (Pochon, 1967)
* *[[Melobasis kietana]]* Obenberger, 1938
* *[[Melobasis lathami]]* (Laporte & Gory, 1837)
* *[[Melobasis latifrons]]* (Kerremans, 1892)
* *[[Melobasis lauta]]* Macleay, 1888
* *[[Melobasis lixi]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis lugubrina]]* Kerremans, 1900
* *[[Melobasis lugubris]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis macleayana]]* Obenberger, 1930
* *[[Melobasis macleayi]]* Kerremans, 1892
* *[[Melobasis maculata]]* (Deyrolle, 1864)
* *[[Melobasis marlooensis]]* Carter, 1937
* *[[Melobasis meeki]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis melanura]]* Kerremans, 1898
* *[[Melobasis metallifera]]* Saunders, 1868
* *[[Melobasis meyricki]]* Blackburn, 1887
* *[[Melobasis modesta]]* Lansberge, 1880
* *[[Melobasis monticola]]* Blackburn, 1892
* *[[Melobasis myallae]]* Carter, 1932
* *[[Melobasis naias]]* Obenberger, 1942
* *[[Melobasis nervosa]]* (Boisduval, 1835)
* *[[Melobasis nickerli]]* (Obenberger, 1938)
* *[[Melobasis nigriventris]]* Obenberger, 1942
* *[[Melobasis nitidiventris]]* Kerremans, 1898
* *[[Melobasis nobilitata]]* Thomson, 1879
* *[[Melobasis novaeguineae]]* Bellamy, 2003
* *[[Melobasis obscurata]]* (Obenberger, 1924)
* *[[Melobasis obscurella]]* Thomson, 1879
* *[[Melobasis occidentalis]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis oleomaculata]]* (Obenberger, 1938)
* *[[Melobasis paitana]]* Fauvel, 1891
* *[[Melobasis papuana]]* (Obenberger, 1924)
* *[[Melobasis parvula]]* Carter, 1930
* *[[Melobasis picticollis]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis prisca]]* Erichson, 1842
* *[[Melobasis prolongata]]* (Obenberger, 1922)
* *[[Melobasis prominens]]* Obenberger, 1942
* *[[Melobasis propinqua]]* (Laporte & Gory, 1837)
* *[[Melobasis pseudovittata]]* Obenberger, 1942
* *[[Melobasis psilopteroides]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis purpurascens]]* (Fabricius, 1801)
* *[[Melobasis purpuriceps]]* Saunders, 1867
* *[[Melobasis pusilla]]* Carter, 1928
* *[[Melobasis quadrinotata]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis quinquemaculata]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis radiola]]* Carter, 1934
* *[[Melobasis regalis]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis ribbei]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis robusta]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis rothei]]* Blackburn, 1887
* *[[Melobasis rothschildi]]* Théry, 1923
* *[[Melobasis rouyeri]]* Théry, 1911
* *[[Melobasis scintillans]]* Obenberger, 1942
* *[[Melobasis scutata]]* Fauvel, 1891
* *[[Melobasis scutellaris]]* (Deyrolle, 1864)
* *[[Melobasis semimarginata]]* Obenberger, 1942
* *[[Melobasis septemplagiata]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis serrata]]* Montrouzier, 1860
* *[[Melobasis sexplagiata]]* (Laporte & Gory, 1837)
* *[[Melobasis simplex]]* (Germar, 1848)
* *[[Melobasis smaragdifrons]]* (Obenberger, 1922)
* *[[Melobasis spinosa]]* Carter, 1939
* *[[Melobasis splendida]]* (Donovan, 1805)
* *[[Melobasis ssp.]]* tenebrosa (Obenberger), 1924
* *[[Melobasis stevensi]]* (Théry, 1937)
* *[[Melobasis strandi]]* Obenberger, 1938
* *[[Melobasis subconica]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis superba]]* (Laporte & Gory, 1837)
* *[[Melobasis terminata]]* Kerremans, 1898
* *[[Melobasis thoracica]]* Blackburn, 1887
* *[[Melobasis timoriensis]]* Théry, 1935
* *[[Melobasis trifasciata]]* (Gory & Laporte, 1837)
* *[[Melobasis tristis]]* (Kerremans, 1900)
* *[[Melobasis uniformis]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis vanderwieli]]* Obenberger, 1938
* *[[Melobasis variabilis]]* Lansberge, 1880
* *[[Melobasis variegata]]* (Théry, 1937)
* *[[Melobasis vertebralis]]* Carter, 1923
* *[[Melobasis victoriae]]* Obenberger, 1942
* *[[Melobasis viridiaurata]]* Deyrolle, 1864
* *[[Melobasis viridiceps]]* Saunders, 1876
* *[[Melobasis viridicolor]]* (Obenberger, 1930)
* *[[Melobasis viridifrons]]* Kerremans, 1896
* *[[Melobasis viridipes]]* Fauvel, 1891
* *[[Melobasis viridisterna]]* Carter, 1939
* *[[Melobasis vittata]]* Blackburn, 1887
* *[[Melobasis wannerua]]* Carter, 1936
* *[[Melobasis woodlarkianus]]* Théry, 1923

## Referanser


## Eksterne lenker
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* Bilde av ''Melobasis gratiotissima''
* Bilde av ''Melobasis obscurella''
* Bilder av en del arter