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(
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,
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,
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,
<figureCitation id="131591E13A0EC80FFE6BF984FDD0152E" box="[454,552,1591,1617]" captionStart="FIGURES 107110" captionStartId="54.[151,264,1844,1868]" captionTargetBox="[279,1313,183,1820]" captionTargetId="figure-30@54.[274,1313,181,1820]" captionTargetPageId="54" captionText="FIGURES 107110. aedeagus &amp; apex of parameres: 107108. M. ordinata sp. n. (Quibray Bay, N.S.W.); 109110. M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (Berkshire Park, N.S.W.). Scale bars of aedeagus = 1.0 mm; scale bars for apex of parameres = 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043163" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043163/files/figure.png" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">109, 110</figureCitation>
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Bellamy
<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFB5CF9CFFADC15EC" box="[1265,1316,1659,1683]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">et al.</emphasis>
2013:58
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locality:
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Upper
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,
<collectingRegion id="49EA43863A0EC80FFE57F929FD4A15CD" box="[506,690,1690,1714]" country="Australia" name="New South Wales" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">New South Wales</collectingRegion>
.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFF3AF953FE1B1585" bold="true" box="[151,483,1760,1786]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Type specimens examined.</emphasis>
<typeStatus id="549533C63A0EC80FFE5CF953FDA11585" box="[497,601,1760,1786]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
♁ (
<collectionCode id="ED3F15A13A0EC80FFD3EF953FD1F1585" box="[659,743,1760,1786]" country="South Africa" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/ymbs-hrkx" name="Albany Museum" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">AMSA</collectionCode>
) Upper Castelreagh/
<date id="FF90ABA43A0EC80FFC40F953FB611585" box="[1005,1177,1760,1786]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" value="1981-09-30">30 Sept. 1981</date>
/J.R. Turner/
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<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A0EC80FFF3AF8B7FE651461" authority="Levey, 2023" authorityName="Levey" authorityYear="2023" box="[151,413,1796,1822]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="falsosimplex" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFF3AF8B7FE651461" box="[151,413,1796,1822]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Melobasis falsosimplex</emphasis>
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B. Levey det. 1984 [
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFD62F8B6FC781461" box="[719,896,1796,1822]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">M. falsosimplex</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a manuscript name given to this species prior to its description as
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFED6F89AFDDC143D" box="[379,548,1832,1858]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">M. jacquelinae</emphasis>
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, and this manuscript name will be found on specimens in various collections].
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as follows:
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(
<collectionCode id="ED3F15A13A0EC80FFE10F8FFFDE91419" box="[445,529,1868,1894]" country="South Africa" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/ymbs-hrkx" name="Albany Museum" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">AMSA</collectionCode>
) Luddenham (Spence St.)
<date id="FF90ABA43A0EC80FFC9BF8FFFC401419" box="[822,952,1868,1894]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" value="1981-10-06">6 Oct. 1981</date>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A0EC80FFC6FF8FFFB4F1418" authority=", J. R. Turner" authorityName="J. R. Turner" box="[962,1207,1868,1895]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Jacksonia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Jacksonia, J.R. Turner</taxonomicName>
[one badly damaged by
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFF17F8C3FED414F5" box="[186,300,1904,1930]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Anthrenus</emphasis>
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]; 1 unsexed (
<collectionCode id="ED3F15A13A0EC80FFE69F8C3FDE014F5" box="[452,536,1904,1930]" country="South Africa" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/ymbs-hrkx" name="Albany Museum" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">AMSA</collectionCode>
) Llandilo
<date id="FF90ABA43A0EC80FFD20F8C3FCDF14F5" box="[653,807,1904,1930]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" value="1981-09-28">28 Sept. 1981</date>
J.R. Turner [fragmentary specimen].
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFF6AF827FD0814D1" bold="true" box="[199,752,1940,1966]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
Other specimens examined.
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:
</emphasis>
2 mls N.E. of Bald Nob; 4 mls N.W. of Bald Nob; Berkshire Park;
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. S.E. of
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; Lapstone Hill, Blue Mountains; Maroota; Ropes Creek; Sandy Point; Sackville; 5.45 mls West Binnaway.
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:
</emphasis>
Stanthorpe; near Wallungara Water Supply [presumably Wallangarra]. Specimens in ANIC, BLC, GBC, GWC, MMSA, QMA, SAMA, WAMA. Some of these specimens may be found bearing the names
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A09C808FF4BFF08FE1413AA" box="[230,492,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Melobasis falsosimplex</emphasis>
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or
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A09C808FDBCFF08FCC813AA" box="[529,816,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Melobasis pseudosimplex</emphasis>
B. Levey
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det., both manuscript names.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AFF6DFDEB12D2" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A09C808FF6AFF6DFEBA1387" bold="true" box="[199,322,222,248]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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; head in ♁ green, with vertex brownish-copper, sometimes entirely brownish-copper,
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brownish- or greenish-bronze; pronotum in both sexes brownish- or greenish-bronze, often with a slight reddish-purple reflections; elytra in both sexes olive green, often with an extensive, slight reddish-purple or coppery, reflection; underside greenish- or brownish-bronze, laterally moderately densely clothed with silvery pubescence, central part of the prosternum, prosternal process, mesosternum, central parts of metaventrite and abdominal ventrites glabrous.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AFE04FD0F11FA" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">
Head (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A09C808FEBBFE04FE9612AE" box="[278,366,439,465]" captionStart="FIGURES 8793" captionStartId="45.[151,264,1735,1759]" captionTargetBox="[237,1352,181,1694]" captionTargetId="figure-16@45.[236,1352,181,1711]" captionTargetPageId="45" captionText="FIGURES 8793. 8791 head:87.M.cupricollis Kerremans (J Warrumbungle Ranges, N.S.W.ANIC); 88. M.apicalis Macleay (J Mt. Hopeful, Q. TMSHC); 89. M. conicollis Obenberger (holotype ♀); 90. M. ordinata sp. n. (J); 91. M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (J Queensland ANIC). 9293 fore tibia M. apicalis Macleay (J Mt. Hopeful, Q. TMSHC): 92 anterior view; 93. posterior view. Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043157" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043157/files/figure.png" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Fig. 91</figureCitation>
): in ♁ contiguously punctate with very small strong round punctures, densely clothed with long silvery pubescence; in
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very densely to contiguously punctate with often slightly weaker punctures, densely clothed with silvery pubescence; clypeal excision very shallow arcuate, with a fairly broad, reticulate, impunctate border; clypeal peaks poorly developed, obtuse angled; clypeal angles not, or little indicated; vertex flat, in ♁ slightly less than half width of head across eye, in
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about half width of head across eye, when viewed from above; eyes in ♁ very strongly convex, in
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strongly convex.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AFD3CFA7211D6" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" box="[199,1418,654,681]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Antenna: not sexually dimorphic; segment 4 triangularly expanded, segments 510 with expansion quadrate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AFD00FAAA176E" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Pronotum: 1.561.69× as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin moderately bisinuate with a moderately developed median lobe, with a narrow beaded margin; posterior margin weakly to modertely strongly biarcuate; widest at base or near basal third; lateral margins parallel to weakly rectilinearly diverging from basal angles to widest point, sometimes with a slight sinuation just anteroior to the basal angles, before weakly curvilinearly converging to apical angles; basal angles slightly acute; as wide at base as elytra at base; lateral carina well defined, straight to slightly curved, about two-thirds to three-quarters complete; punctation in central half dense to very dense, consisting of transversely ovate and ellipsoidal punctures; punctation in lateral half very dense to contiguous, the punctures transversely ovate to ellipsoidal next to the central half, becoming round close to the lateral margin; spaces between punctures imperceptibly to weakly microreticulate; sometimes with a partial or complete impunctate median line; glabrous in central three-quarters but with short to moderately long silvery pubescence in the lateral quarter.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AFBA8FE5C1726" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Scutellum: appoximately quadrate, heart to shield shaped, about one-thirteenth to one-fifthteenth width of elytra at base; microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AFBD0FE1E1606" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Elytra: 2.442.61× as long as wide at base; basal margin weakly biarcuate, slightly to moderately strongly widening from base over the humeral callosities thence parallel sided to slightly widening to midlength, before narrowing to the rounded apices; lateral margins from just behind midlength and apices serrate, with acute serrations; sutural margins slightly raised in apical half to two-thirds; each elytron with traces of two slightly raised intervals in internal half, the associated punctation not arranged in regular longitudinal series, the punctures small, round, moderately dense, those of the subsutural depression slightly smaller; punctation in external half very dense to contiguous, consisting of slightly larger, transversely oval to ellipsoidal punctures, mostly arranged in transverse rows; weakly microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AFA30FC9A16BE" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Hypomeron: very densely to contiguously punctate with small, deep, round and ovate punctures, with dense, moderately long silvery pubescence, bottom of punctures shiny.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AFA78FA701576" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Prosternum: with a broad bead at the anterior margin; the anterior margin at the same level as the area behind; prosternal process slightly widening distally, moderately densely punctate with small, round punctures, glabrous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AF9A0FE99152E" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Mesanepisternum: densely punctate with small punctures of variable shape, but inner third of sclerite often sparsely punctate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AF9E8FCC415C2" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Central part metaventrite, inner part of metacoxa, central part of abdominal ventrites glabrous, more sparsely and weakly punctate than lateral parts of these structures which are very densely punctate with lunate punctures, with moderately dense, moderately long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AF974FBD41432" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">
Apical ventrite (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A09C808FED1F974FDE2159E" box="[380,538,1735,1761]" captionStart="FIGURES 101106" captionStartId="47.[151,264,1839,1863]" captionTargetBox="[264,1323,181,1816]" captionTargetId="figure-16@47.[262,1326,181,1816]" captionTargetPageId="47" captionText="FIGURES 101106. 101102 apical ventrite: 101. M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (J); 102. M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (♀). Scale bars. = 1.0 mm. 103106 aedeagus &amp; apex of parameres: 103104. M. cupricollis Kerremans (Nepean Gorge, N.S.W. BLC); 105106. M. apicalis Macleay (Mt. Hopeful, 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.8043161" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043161/files/figure.png" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Figs 101, 102</figureCitation>
): lunate punctures very dense to partly coalescent near the lateral margin, but not forming grooves; excision in ♁ broad, U shaped, with a broad rounded lobe at the centre, with moderately long, well developed, slightly divergent lateral spines (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A09C808FD2EF8BCFD1C1456" box="[643,740,1807,1833]" captionStart="FIGURES 101106" captionStartId="47.[151,264,1839,1863]" captionTargetBox="[264,1323,181,1816]" captionTargetId="figure-16@47.[262,1326,181,1816]" captionTargetPageId="47" captionText="FIGURES 101106. 101102 apical ventrite: 101. M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (J); 102. M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (♀). Scale bars. = 1.0 mm. 103106 aedeagus &amp; apex of parameres: 103104. M. cupricollis Kerremans (Nepean Gorge, N.S.W. BLC); 105106. M. apicalis Macleay (Mt. Hopeful, 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.8043161" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043161/files/figure.png" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Fig. 101</figureCitation>
);
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much narrower, U shaped, with a moderately broad flange for its entire width, the lateral spines well developed slightly divergent (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A09C808FC10F880FBE71432" box="[957,1055,1843,1869]" captionStart="FIGURES 101106" captionStartId="47.[151,264,1839,1863]" captionTargetBox="[264,1323,181,1816]" captionTargetId="figure-16@47.[262,1326,181,1816]" captionTargetPageId="47" captionText="FIGURES 101106. 101102 apical ventrite: 101. M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (J); 102. M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (♀). Scale bars. = 1.0 mm. 103106 aedeagus &amp; apex of parameres: 103104. M. cupricollis Kerremans (Nepean Gorge, N.S.W. BLC); 105106. M. apicalis Macleay (Mt. Hopeful, 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.8043161" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043161/files/figure.png" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Fig. 102</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AF8E4FE5714EA" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">
Fore tibia: slightly curved, with a slightly developed setal brush on the anterior face at the apex in ♁; tibia slightly less curved in
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AF82CFB3F14C6" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" box="[199,1223,1951,1977]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Mid tibia: almost straight without teeth or a depression along the ventral face in both sexes.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A09C808FF6AF870FCA114A2" blockId="52.[151,1437,151,2013]" box="[199,857,1987,2013]" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Tarsal claws widened at the base but without a basal tooth.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A08C809FF6AFF24FAB81386" blockId="53.[151,1437,151,429]" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">
Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A08C809FEEAFF24FE1213CE" box="[327,490,151,177]" captionStart="FIGURES 107110" captionStartId="54.[151,264,1844,1868]" captionTargetBox="[279,1313,183,1820]" captionTargetId="figure-30@54.[274,1313,181,1820]" captionTargetPageId="54" captionText="FIGURES 107110. aedeagus &amp; apex of parameres: 107108. M. ordinata sp. n. (Quibray Bay, N.S.W.); 109110. M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (Berkshire Park, N.S.W.). Scale bars of aedeagus = 1.0 mm; scale bars for apex of parameres = 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043163" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043163/files/figure.png" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">Figs 109, 110</figureCitation>
): parameres gradually constricted before the apical setae bearing part; apical setae bearing part with lateral margins weakly curved, not widenened, with numerous, moderately long, slightly curved spine like setae, in addition to the usual long fine setae; median lobe with a slightly arrow head shaped tip.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A08C809FF6AFEB0FE151262" blockId="53.[151,1437,151,429]" box="[199,493,259,285]" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">Ovipositor: not examined.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C334DEEF3A08C809FF6AFE95FCF112D2" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B918D643A08C809FF6AFE95FEEE121A" blockId="53.[151,1437,151,429]" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A08C809FF6AFE95FEAA123F" bold="true" box="[199,338,294,320]" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">Comments:</emphasis>
This species is most similar to
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A08C809FD64FE94FC92123E" box="[713,874,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">M. cupricollis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A08C809FC0BFE94FBD6123E" box="[934,1070,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">M. ordinata</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A08C809FB94FE94FBA2123E" bold="true" box="[1081,1114,295,321]" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">sp.</emphasis>
n.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
See comments under
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A08C809FAD3FE94FEF7121A" italics="true" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">M. cupricollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A08C809FF6AFEDDFCF112D2" blockId="53.[151,1437,151,429]" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A08C809FF6AFEDDFEB312F7" bold="true" box="[199,331,366,392]" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected from September to December. Adults have been collected on leaves and flowers of
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A08C809FF1BFE20FE7612D3" box="[182,398,403,429]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Jacksonia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="scoparia">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A08C809FF1BFE20FE7612D3" box="[182,398,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">Jacksonia scoparia</emphasis>
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,. Larval host
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A08C809FD84FE20FCFA12D3" box="[553,770,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="53" pageNumber="54">Jacksonia scoparia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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