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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFF3AFC89FE99102D" box="[151,353,826,850]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Melobasis macleayi</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFDCDFC89FD43102D" box="[608,699,826,850]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">macleayi</emphasis>
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locality:
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,
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, Duaringa.
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(not synonym of
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFCD4FC24FBFF10D1" box="[889,1031,918,942]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">M. obscurella</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFF3AFC60FED21094" bold="true" box="[151,298,979,1003]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">
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locality:
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<collectingCountry id="F339CDF43A6BC86AFE9DFC60FE681094" box="[304,400,979,1003]" name="Australia" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Australia</collectingCountry>
.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFF3AFBA0FE291753" bold="true" box="[151,465,1042,1069]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Type specimens examined.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFE7AFBA0FD4A1752" box="[471,690,1043,1069]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Melobasis suturalis</emphasis>
Thomson
</taxonomicName>
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♁ selected here (
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)
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A6BC86AFB16FBA0FA6C1752" authority="(H. Deyr.)" baseAuthorityName="H. Deyr." box="[1211,1428,1043,1069]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="86" pageNumber="87" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="suturalis">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFB16FBA0FAE51752" box="[1211,1309,1043,1069]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">suturalis</emphasis>
(H. Deyr.)
</taxonomicName>
/ Th. Type/ Ex. Musaeo James Thomson/ Museum Paris coll.A. Thery.
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(
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)
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFB6FFB84FA64172E" box="[1218,1436,1079,1105]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Melobasis suturalis</emphasis>
(H. Deyr.) Sidney
</taxonomicName>
/ Th. Type/ Ex. Musaeo James Thomson/
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A6BC86AFC9DFBE8FC6A170A" box="[816,914,1115,1141]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="86" pageNumber="87" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="suturalis">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFC9DFBE8FC6A170A" box="[816,914,1115,1141]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">suturalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(H. Deyr. M. ss.) Th. Type Ap.1. 17 Sydney.
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<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A6BC86AFF6AFBCCFE0317E6" authority="Carter" authorityName="Carter" box="[199,507,1151,1177]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="86" pageNumber="87" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macleayi">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFF6AFBCCFE5217E6" box="[199,426,1151,1177]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Melobasis macleayi</emphasis>
Carter
</taxonomicName>
[Carter in his original description says he has seen
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from various localities in Queensland. He says the type specimens are
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in The Australian Museum, Sydney. I have selected the male labelled as Type from this collection as the
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, and consider the other
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from this collection labelled as Co Type to be
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. There are a number of other specimens labelled as Co Type in other collections which I also list here. I do not consider these to be
<typeStatus id="549533C63A6BC86AFC4BFABCFB701656" box="[998,1160,1295,1321]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87" type="paralectotype">paralectotypes</typeStatus>
since Carter specifically says the types are in The Australian Museum, Sydney].
<typeStatus id="549533C63A6BC86AFD50FA80FC951632" box="[765,877,1331,1357]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87" type="lectotype">Lectotype</typeStatus>
♁ selected here (
<collectionCode id="ED3F15A13A6BC86AFB81FA80FB781632" box="[1068,1152,1331,1357]" country="South Africa" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/ymbs-hrkx" name="Albany Museum" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">AMSA</collectionCode>
) Type ♁ H.J.C./ K32166/ Duaringa Queensland/
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFE0FFAE4FD7E160E" box="[418,646,1367,1393]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Melobasis macleayi</emphasis>
Carter Id.
</taxonomicName>
by H.J. Carter/
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.
<typeStatus id="549533C63A6BC86AFBEDFAE4FB1B160E" box="[1088,1251,1367,1393]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87" type="paralectotype">Paralectotypes</typeStatus>
as follows: 1♁ (
<collectionCode id="ED3F15A13A6BC86AFF32FAC8FF0B16EA" box="[159,243,1403,1429]" country="South Africa" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/ymbs-hrkx" name="Albany Museum" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">AMSA</collectionCode>
) Co Type ♁ H.J.C/ Duaringa Queensland/ K32166/
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. 1♁ (
<collectionCode id="ED3F15A13A6BC86AFC58FAC8FBB116EA" box="[1013,1097,1403,1429]" country="South Africa" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/ymbs-hrkx" name="Albany Museum" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">AMSA</collectionCode>
) Co Type ♁ H.J.C. /K45056/ Pt. Den [ison]/
<typeStatus id="549533C63A6BC86AFEE6FA2CFE4916C6" box="[331,433,1439,1465]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87" type="paratype">Paratype</typeStatus>
. The following specimens are labelled as Co Type H.J.C.: 1♁ (
<collectionCode id="ED3F15A13A6BC86AFB3DFA2CFB1616C6" box="[1168,1262,1439,1465]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">MVMA</collectionCode>
) Rockhampton Queensland; 1♁ (
<collectionCode id="ED3F15A13A6BC86AFECDFA70FE4616A2" box="[352,446,1475,1501]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">MVMA</collectionCode>
) no further data; 1♁ (
<collectionCode id="ED3F15A13A6BC86AFD16FA70FCE116A2" box="[699,793,1475,1501]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">MVMA</collectionCode>
) Mackay;
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(
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) Bowen Qld; 2♁ (
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) N.S. Wales
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; 2♁,
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(
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(
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; 2♁ (
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(
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,
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<location id="8EF1DBBF3A6BC86AFF55F9B8FE4F155A" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03873C723A6BC864FF3AFDEDFAB610FE:8EF1DBBF3A6BC86AFF55F9B8FE4F155A" box="[248,439,1547,1573]" country="United Kingdom" name="Endeavour River" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Endeavour River</location>
Queensland
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;
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(
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) Cairns. 2 unsexed (
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)
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2386
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6BC86AFF7CF99CFB391512" blockId="86.[151,1437,1042,2041]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A6BC86AFF7CF99CFDA01536" authority="Thomson" authorityName="Thomson" authorityYear="1879" box="[209,600,1583,1609]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="86" pageNumber="87" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="viridiobscura">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFF7CF99CFE1D1536" box="[209,485,1583,1609]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Melobasis viridiobscura</emphasis>
Thomson
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<typeStatus id="549533C63A6BC86AFDCCF99CFD311536" box="[609,713,1583,1609]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
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(
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)
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A6BC86AFCC9F99CFB0F1536" authority="(H. Deyr.)" baseAuthorityName="H. Deyr." box="[868,1271,1583,1609]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="86" pageNumber="87" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="viridiobscura">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFCC9F99CFB801536" box="[868,1144,1583,1609]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Melobasis viridiobscura</emphasis>
(H. Deyr.)
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/ Th. Type/
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFF73F9E0FE8D1512" box="[222,373,1619,1645]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">viridiobscura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(H. Deyr. M. ss.) Th. Type Ap. 1 19 Austral./ Ex. Musaeo James Thomson.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6BC86AFF6AF9C4FEA81582" blockId="86.[151,1437,1042,2041]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">
Other specimens examined.
<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFE53F9C5FD6D15EF" bold="true" box="[510,661,1654,1680]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">
<collectingRegion id="49EA43863A6BC86AFE53F9C5FD6815EF" box="[510,656,1654,1680]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Queensland</collectingRegion>
:
</emphasis>
Bowen; Bribie Island; Brilliant; Brisbane; Byfield; Byfield, Stockyard Point; Cairns; Cooktown, Edungalba; Gladstone; Hay Point, Mackay; Keppel Sands; Kuranda; Rockhampton; Mackay; Margate; Marmor; Maryborough; Mt. Spec; Port Denison; Rockingham; Stanthorpe; Townsville; Urangan; Vallis; Yeppoon.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6BC86AFF7CF8B4FB0914CE" blockId="86.[151,1437,1042,2041]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFF7CF8B4FE96145F" bold="true" box="[209,366,1798,1825]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">N. Territory:</emphasis>
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<collectingCounty id="62F0F5E83A6BC86AFEDBF8B4FDDD145E" box="[374,549,1799,1825]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Adelaide River</collectingCounty>
, H.W
</collectorName>
. Brown (
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).
<collectingMunicipality id="6BF5171E3A6BC86AFCFDF8B4FC7A145E" box="[848,898,1799,1825]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">This</collectingMunicipality>
single female specimen is slightly different in pronotal shape from specimens I have seen from
<collectingRegion id="49EA43863A6BC86AFD1EF898FCC2143A" box="[691,826,1835,1861]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Queensland</collectingRegion>
, but all other characters fall within the variation seen in
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6BC86AFF3AF8FCFEE61416" box="[151,286,1871,1897]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">M. suturalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
specimens I have examined.
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is possible given the large geographic separation between the collection locality of this specimen and the
<collectingRegion id="49EA43863A6BC86AFDB5F8C0FD6414F2" box="[536,668,1907,1933]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Queensland</collectingRegion>
localities, that it belongs to a different closely related undescribed species or subspecies, but without more material and male specimens no conclusions can be drawn.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6BC86AFF6AF808FEAE1486" blockId="86.[151,1437,1042,2041]" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">Specimens examined from AMSA, ANIC, BMNH, BLC, IRSNB, MVMA, NMWC, SAMA, QMA, TMSHC, WAMA, ZMHB.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C334DEEF3A6AC864FF6AFF25FCD212AE" lastPageId="88" lastPageNumber="89" pageId="87" pageNumber="88" type="diagnosis">
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A6AC86BFF6AFF25FEBA13CF" bold="true" box="[199,322,150,176]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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; head yellow-green to olive-green, fronto-clypeal margin sometimes coppery; pronotum yellow-green to dull green sometimes with coppery or reddish purple reflections; scutellum coppery or reddish purple; elytra in ♁ primarily yellow-green, in
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primarily dull green to grey-green, usually with the sutural margin narrowly brighter green or coppery in apical two-thirds, and subsutural depression in apical third and inner two or three interstriae blackish green in both sexes; underside primarily reddish purple to reddish violet in both sexes, usually with the anterolateral prolongation of ventrite 1 green, and sometimes with the lateral margins of the abdominal ventrites and mesanepisternum partly or entirely green; legs primarily reddish violet but with anterior faces of femora, tibia and tarsi, of fore- and mid legs and sometimes hind legs in ♁ green, in
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only fore-legs showing this colour combination; laterally sparsely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence, central part of the prosternum, prosternal process, mesosternum, central parts of metaventrite and central parts abdominal ventrites glabrous.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6AC86BFF6AFD90FC8F11B2" blockId="87.[151,1437,150,2015]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">
Head (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A6AC86BFEB8FD90FE821142" box="[277,378,547,573]" captionStart="FIGURES 123129" captionStartId="61.[151,264,1823,1847]" captionTargetBox="[274,1332,181,1788]" captionTargetId="figure-16@61.[256,1332,181,1800]" captionTargetPageId="61" captionText="FIGURES 123129. 123 dorsal habitus M. rufoviolacea sp. n. (holotype ♁). Scale bar = 5.0 mm. 124129 head: 124. M. confundo sp. n. (holotype ♀); 125. M. aurocincta Carter (J 1.5 mls N.W. of Mourangee, Q. BLC); 126. M. imitator sp. n. (J Cape Naturaliste, W.A. TMSHC); 127. M. breviantennatus sp. n. (holotype ♀); 128. M. suturalis Thomson (J Hay Point, Mackay, Q. SAMA); 129. M. dentata sp. n. (holotype ♁). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043172" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043172/files/figure.png" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Fig. 128</figureCitation>
): ♁ contiguously punctate with small, strong, mostly round punctures, in
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punctures very dense, weaker; ♁ moderately densely clothed with long silvery pubescence, in
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glabrous; spaces between the punctures very weakly microreticulate; clypeal excision shallow, arcuate, with a narrow impunctate border; clypeal peaks obtusely angled, sometimes almost rounded; clypeal angles not developed; vertex flat, about half width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes strongly convex.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6AC86BFF6AFD64FD9E1046" blockId="87.[151,1437,150,2015]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">
Antenna: segments 410 expanded, segment 4 with expansion subquadrate (♁) or subtriangular (
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), segments 510 with expansion quadrate, about one and a half times to twice as long as wide in ♁, petiolate at base, in
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segments less elongate and less petiolate.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6AC86BFF6AFCF0FB001702" blockId="87.[151,1437,150,2015]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Pronotum: 1.631.75× as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin moderately strongly bisinuate with a very slightly produced, often subtruncate, broad, median lobe, with a narrow entire beaded margin; posterior margin weakly biangulate; widest at basal quarter to basal third; lateral margins weakly diverging from basal angles to widest point, before almost rectilinearly converging or weakly curvilinearly converging to apical angles; basal angles slightly acute; as wide at base as elytra at base; lateral carina sharp, well defined, slightly curved, about two-thirds to four-fifths complete; punctation in central half dense to very dense, consisting of transversely oval and elliptical punctures; punctation in lateral half very dense, the punctures mostly slightly oval; spaces between punctures weakly to moderately strongly microreticulate; with a small punctiform depression just anterior to the scutellum; glabrous or with sparse, moderately long setae near the lateral margin at the apical angle.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6AC86BFF6AFB34FB0317DE" blockId="87.[151,1437,150,2015]" box="[199,1275,1159,1185]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Scutellum: quadrate, shield shaped, about one-twentieth width of elytra at base; microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6AC86BFF6AFB18FEF4169A" blockId="87.[151,1437,150,2015]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">
Elytra: 2.132.23× as long as wide at base; basal margin moderately strongly biangulate, slightly widening from base over the humeral callosities thence very slightly widening to midlength, before narrowing to the broad, slightly angulate apices; lateral margins in apical half with large, acute serrations, the serrations much smaller between extreme apex and sutural margin; sutural margins moderately strongly raised in apical half; without costae or costate intervals, although the 1st interstria may be convex; punctation in inner third to half mostly sparse, consisting of pin-prick and small round punctures, partly arranged in longitudinal series, especially on either side of the 1
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interstria; punctation in outer half to two-thirds very dense to contiguous, consisting of larger transversely ovate punctures, partly forming transverse series near the lateral margin; weakly to moderately strongly microreticulate between the punctures.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6AC86BFF6AFA5CFD9F152E" blockId="87.[151,1437,150,2015]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Hypomeron: contiguously punctate with very shallow, ovate punctures, the bottom of the punctures weakly microreticulate, with fairly short, adpressed, silvery pubescence, the punctures large adjacent to the pronotal carina, much smaller over the rest of the surface.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6AC86BFF6AF9E8FD5F15C2" blockId="87.[151,1437,150,2015]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Prosternum: with a broad bead at the anterior margin; the anterior margin at about the same level as the area behind; prosternal process moderately strongly widening distally, almost as wide as long at its widest point, densely punctate, with small ovate punctures, glabrous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6AC86BFF6AF974FB04159E" blockId="87.[151,1437,150,2015]" box="[199,1276,1735,1761]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Mesanepisternum: strongly microreticulate, sometimes with a few very small punctures present.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6AC86BFF6AF958FE4A14EA" blockId="87.[151,1437,150,2015]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Central part of metaventrite and inner part of metacoxa very sparsely punctate with small weak mostly pin-prick punctures, glabrous; lateral parts of metaventrite and metacoxae contiguously punctate, with fairly large shallow ovate and lunate punctures; abdominal ventrites glabrous, and sparsely, to moderately densely, weakly punctate, with small mostly lunate punctures in central-third; laterally with larger, coalescent, lunate punctures, with moderately short silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A6AC864FF6AF82CFC4113AA" blockId="87.[151,1437,150,2015]" lastBlockId="88.[151,1437,151,897]" lastPageId="88" lastPageNumber="89" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">
Apical ventrite (
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): contiguously punctate with slightly elongate, lunate punctures in lateral two-thirds, densely punctured with smaller lunate punctures in central third; excision in ♁ wide, slightly W shaped, rather deep, with a very poorly developed flange, narrowly, triangularly produced at centre; lateral spines broad and flat (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A65C864FF61FF08FED613AA" box="[204,302,187,213]" captionStart="FIGURES 143150" captionStartId="66.[151,264,1689,1713]" captionTargetBox="[258,1341,181,1665]" captionTargetId="figure-30@66.[246,1342,181,1665]" captionTargetPageId="66" captionText="FIGURES 143150. apical ventrite: 143. M.suturalis Thomson (J Hay Point, Mackay, Q. SAMA); 144. M.suturalis Thomson (♀ Cairns, Q. SAMA); 145. M. dentata sp. n. (holotype J); 146. M. dentata sp. n. (♀ paratype Glencoe, Q. BLC); 147. M. tricolor sp. n. (J paratype Broome, W.A. MVMA); 148. M. tricolor sp. n. (♀ paratype Broome, W.A. BLC); 149. M. adamsi sp. n. (holotype J); 150. M. adamsi sp. n. (♀ Edungalba, Q. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043178" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043178/files/figure.png" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Fig. 143</figureCitation>
);
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much narrower, but otherwise similar to ♁ (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A65C864FCE7FF08FC5413AA" box="[842,940,187,213]" captionStart="FIGURES 143150" captionStartId="66.[151,264,1689,1713]" captionTargetBox="[258,1341,181,1665]" captionTargetId="figure-30@66.[246,1342,181,1665]" captionTargetPageId="66" captionText="FIGURES 143150. apical ventrite: 143. M.suturalis Thomson (J Hay Point, Mackay, Q. SAMA); 144. M.suturalis Thomson (♀ Cairns, Q. SAMA); 145. M. dentata sp. n. (holotype J); 146. M. dentata sp. n. (♀ paratype Glencoe, Q. BLC); 147. M. tricolor sp. n. (J paratype Broome, W.A. MVMA); 148. M. tricolor sp. n. (♀ paratype Broome, W.A. BLC); 149. M. adamsi sp. n. (holotype J); 150. M. adamsi sp. n. (♀ Edungalba, Q. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043178" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043178/files/figure.png" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Fig. 144</figureCitation>
).
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Fore tibia: ♁ and
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slightly curved, with a very small setal brush at the apex on the anterior face.
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Mid tibia: ♁ slightly curved, with a large tooth at the apex and a series of strong, closely spaced teeth in the distal half, on the ventral face;
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almost straight, without teeth.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A65C864FF6AFEF8FECE12D2" blockId="88.[151,1437,151,897]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">
Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A65C864FEEEFEF8FE27121A" box="[323,479,331,357]" captionStart="FIGURES 166169" captionStartId="79.[151,264,1778,1802]" captionTargetBox="[300,1288,181,1754]" captionTargetId="figure-16@79.[299,1288,181,1754]" captionTargetPageId="79" captionText="FIGURES 166169. aedeagus &amp; apex of parameres: 166167. M.suturalis Thomson (Hay Point, Mackay, Q. SAMA); 168 169. M. dentata sp. n. (paratype 30 Km W, of Alpha, Q. TMSHC). Scale bars of aedeagus = 1.0 mm; scale bars for apex of parameres = 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043184" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043184/files/figure.png" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Figs 166, 167</figureCitation>
): with the apical setae bearing part of the parameres abruptly expanded, approximately triangular in shape; spine like setae confined to the basal third of the setae bearing part; apex of median lobe asymmetrical.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A65C864FF6AFE04FCD212AE" blockId="88.[151,1437,151,897]" box="[199,810,438,465]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Ovipositor: about 2.5x as long as wide at widest point.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C334DEEF3A65C864FF6AFE69FAB610FE" pageId="88" pageNumber="89" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B918D643A65C864FF6AFE69FD63111E" blockId="88.[151,1437,151,897]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FF6AFE69FEB7128B" bold="true" box="[199,335,474,500]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Comments.</emphasis>
This species is easily distinguished from all the other species, where the males are known, by the approximately triangular shape of the apical part of the parameres. It is similar to
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FBEBFE4CFB3A1166" box="[1094,1218,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">M. dentata</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FB66FE4CFAF41166" bold="true" box="[1227,1292,511,537]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A269EC0D3A65C864FB66FE4CFAF41166" box="[1227,1292,511,537]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
in the male, having strong teeth on the ventral face of the mid tibia, but can be distinguished in lacking the emargination on the ventral face in the distal third of the mid tibia.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A65C864FF6AFDD9FAB610FE" blockId="88.[151,1437,151,897]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FF6AFDD9FEB311FB" bold="true" box="[199,331,618,644]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected on
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FD81FDD8FD8211FA" box="[556,634,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Acacia</emphasis>
spp.
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from October to February (most records in December and January). Larval hosts
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FE85FD3CFE1711D6" box="[296,495,655,681]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Acacia flavescens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A65C864FE50FD3CFD2E11D7" box="[509,726,655,681]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Jacksonia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="88" pageNumber="89" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="scoparia">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FE50FD3CFD2E11D7" box="[509,726,655,681]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Jacksonia scoparia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
?,
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A65C864FD5AFD3CFC1F11D6" box="[759,999,655,681]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Bossiaea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="88" pageNumber="89" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="rhombifolia">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FD5AFD3CFC1F11D6" box="[759,999,655,681]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Bossiaea rhombifolia</emphasis>
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? The latter two larval host records are based on larvae collected in the Blue Mountains of
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. Since I have seen no adults of
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FB71FD00FA9911B2" box="[1244,1377,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">M. suturalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
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I doubt that these larvae were correctly identified. The following references refer to the bionomics of
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FF18FD48FECB106A" box="[181,307,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">M. apicalis</emphasis>
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but some might concern
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FD59FD48FC28106A" box="[756,976,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Melobasis suturalis</emphasis>
Thomson
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given the apparent rarity of
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A65C864FAD3FD48FF081046" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">M. apicalis</emphasis>
Macleay. However
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except for
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all these references concern the above questionable larval host records, so the identity of the species concerned is unresolvable.
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;
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e:97; 1996b:84; 1997b:261;
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a:61;
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b:2;
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.
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