#xyroscelis

Two small, knobbly, brown Buprestids, unusual enough that they get their own tribe within the family. There’s only the two species in the genus - X. crocata here in Western Australia, and X. bumanna over on the coast of New South Wales. Crocata means ‘saffron-yellow’, and bumanna is from one of the indigenous languages and means ‘to move the wings’.

The larvae live inside Macrozamia fronds. These two were evidently eager enough to insert more.