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1 Apical sternite of abdomen with contiguous lunate punctures, the punctures not forming grooves (
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- Apical sternite of abdomen with coalescent lunate punctures forming grooves (
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); female blue-green, except along the elytral suture which is narrowly brown-bronze (
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); eyes very convex in male, less so in female; head slightly wider across the eyes than pronotum at anterior angles; pronotal punctation very dense, except close to the midline, the punctures separated by less than their own diameter; those at centre of pronotum round or weakly transverse (
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); lateral margin of elytra not angled or sinuate between the basal angle and the humeral callosity; aedeagus (
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3 Head, prosternal process and centre of metasternum clothed with fairly long pubescence (
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); basal angle of elytra forming an almost right angled shoulder in front of the humeral callosity (
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); punctures at centre of pronotum round or weakly transverse, separated by about their own diameter (
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): underside, head and pronotum golden to green or coppery; elytra with the lateral margin in the basal half, the basal margin and the suture in the basal fifth golden-green or coppery, the remainder reddish-purple or blackish-violet, or sometimes entirely reddish-purple (
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4 Head slightly narrower across the eyes than pronotum at anterior angles; more elongate; pronotum less transverse; underside and head emerald green; pronotum coppery-brown at centre, emerald green along the anterior margin and in the lateral half; elytra reddish-violet with a broad golden-green lateral vitta, extending from the basal angle over the humeral callosity to the apical quarter (
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- Head as wide or slightly wider across the eyes than pronotum at anterior angles; less elongate; pronotum more transverse (
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