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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC7FFC7FF42127AC6904C6A" bold="true" box="[199,511,293,318]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="70" reason="1">Type specimen examined.</emphasis>
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determination label.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC7FFC7FF421232C5A74CD2" blockId="69.[151,1436,258,2033]" box="[199,712,366,390]" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Description based on male. Female unknown.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC7FFC7FF4212CDC62E4CFE" bold="true" box="[199,321,401,426]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="70" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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; head, pronotum and underside golden-green; ground colour of elytra blackish-lilac, with a complex golden-green pattern resulting from the expansion and fusion of a sutural vitta in the basal quarter broadly extending along the basal margin to the epipleura, a broad humeral vitta extending over the humeral callosity to the epipleura, a median fascia and pre-apical macula also extending laterally to the epipleura; head and underside clothed with short translucent silvery white pubescence.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC7FFC7FF421118C25B4F93" blockId="69.[151,1436,258,2033]" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Head: very densely to contiguously punctured with fairly small round punctures; densely clothed with short translucent silvery white pubescence; unpunctured areas moderately strongly to strongly microreticulate; clypeal excision shallow, U-shaped, with a narrow unpunctured shiny border; clypeal peaks slightly acute; vertex flat, slightly less than half width of head across the eyes when viewed from above; eyes very strongly convex.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC7FFC7FF42118FC30B4E5B" blockId="69.[151,1436,258,2033]" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Antenna: serrate from segment 410, the expanded part of segments 45 almost triangular, segments 610 becoming progressively shorter, wider than long, and the expanded part less triangular.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC7FFC7FF421047C3124904" blockId="69.[151,1436,258,2033]" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Pronotum: 1.65 times as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin strongly bisinuate, with a well developed broad median lobe, the anterior bead is narrow and fairly well defined at the centre, separated from the rest of the pronotum by a well defined groove, however, laterally the bead and groove are absent; posterior margin very strongly bisinuate, with a very broad truncated median lobe; widest just anterior of the basal angles, thence parallel sided to slightly beyond the mid-length before curvilinearly contracting to the anterior angles; as wide at base as elytra at base; lateral carina about half complete; with a rather broad unpunctured midline except at the anterior fifth; punctation in central fifth sparse to moderately dense, consisting of small round punctures, laterally the punctures become progressively larger and denser, but shallower in the lateral quarter; weakly to moderately strongly microreticulate between the punctures; glabrous, even close to the lateral carina.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC7FFC7FF421700C62749C3" blockId="69.[151,1436,258,2033]" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Scutellum: transversely elliptical, about twice as wide as long, about one-tenth width of elytra at base, weakly microreticulate.</paragraph>
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Elytra: basal margin very strongly bisinuate; slightly widening over the humeral callosities, thence parallel sided to slightly beyond mid-length, before narrowing to the broadly rounded apices; lateral margins in apical third and apices with small slightly acute serrations; sutural margins raised in apical half; with indications of three costate intervals, the one nearest the suture being best developed; sparsely punctured with very small round punctures between the suture and the first costate interval; lateral of the first costate interval the punctures become progressively much larger, stronger and denser; in the lateral third the punctures become contiguous and sometimes coalesce to
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transverse series; punctation adjacent to the costate intervals not seriate; shiny to very weakly microreticulate.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC7FFC7FF42169DC60148A9" blockId="69.[151,1436,258,2033]" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Proepisternum: very densely punctured with large very shallow, round punctures; associated setae very short and inconspicuous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC7FFC7FF421556C4A44BD8" blockId="69.[151,1436,258,2033]" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Prosternum: with a narrow well defined bead at the centre of the anterior margin, which becomes obsolete laterally; anterior margin depressed relative to the area behind; prosternal process slightly widening posteriorly, sparsely to densely punctured with small round punctures, with a line of coalescent punctures close to the lateral margin; sparsely clothed with short translucent silvery white pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC7FFC7FF4215CBC6644B87" blockId="69.[151,1436,258,2033]" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Mesoepisternum: partly weakly microreticulate, and densely punctured with weak small, variably shaped punctures.</paragraph>
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Apical sternite (
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): densely punctured with rather large lunate punctures which are mainly coalescent and
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transverse series; excision shallow, U-shaped about 2.5 times as wide as deep, the flange narrow, the lateral spines about as long as the depth of the flange.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC7FFC7FF421416C3864A36" blockId="69.[151,1436,258,2033]" box="[199,1257,1866,1890]" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Mid tibia: strongly swollen with a large setae-filled depression on the ventral face (as Fig. 49).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC7FFC7FF421432C61F4AFD" blockId="69.[151,1436,258,2033]" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Tarsal claws: apical part very slender and strongly curved, almost forming a right angle with the strongly widened basal part.</paragraph>
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Aedeagus (
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): apical part of parameres with small stout spine-like setae in addition long fine setae; parameres strongly constricted just behind the apical setae-bearing part.
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC4FFC4FF4213CBC6204DE4" bold="true" box="[199,335,151,176]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" reason="1">Comments.</emphasis>
This species is very distinct and cannot be confused with any other known species.
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC4FFC4FF4213E0C6214D80" bold="true" box="[199,334,188,212]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" reason="1">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named for its unusual (exceptional) appearance.
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC4FFC4FF421383C6254DAC" bold="true" box="[199,330,223,248]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adult collected in March. Larval hosts unknown.
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