Order Coleoptera, family Buprestidae. Adults can be found on shrubby 'bush peas' such as Dillwynia and Pultenaea, where they appear to eat the flowers.
Melobasis propinqua is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | South Coast
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Aranda Bushland Black Mountain Block 402 Boro Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill Bullen Range Endeavour Reserve (Bombala) Kowen Escarpment Lower Cotter Catchment Mount Jerrabomberra Mount Jerrabomberra QP Mount Painter Mount Taylor Namadgi National Park Percival Hill Piney Ridge QPRC LGA Tuggeranong Hill Woodstock Nature ReserveSurvey points
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Acton, ACT Aranda, ACT Bannaby, NSW Bombala, NSW Booth, ACT Boro, NSW Bruce, ACT Canberra Central, ACT Cook, ACT Cotter River, ACT Downer, ACT Dunlop, ACT Gundaroo, NSW Holt, ACT Jerrabomberra, NSW Kambah, ACT Karabar, NSW Kowen, ACT Molonglo Valley, ACT Nicholls, ACT O'Connor, ACT Paddys River, ACT Queanbeyan West, NSW Stromlo, ACT Tennent, ACT Tharwa, ACT Theodore, ACT Tuggeranong DC, ACT