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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0FC80EFF6AFCABFEBA104D" bold="true" box="[199,322,792,818]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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entirely green; pronotum and elytra in ♁ green, golden green to coppery,
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usually dull green often with extensive dull reddish-purple reflections, more rarely elytra entirely dull reddish-purple; elytral apices and lateral margins in apical third, in both sexes, usually reddish purple to violet; underside in both sexes entirely green to golden green, laterally sparsely clothed with short silvery pubescence, central part of the prosternum, prosternal process, mesosternum, central parts of metaventrite and abdominal ventrites glabrous.
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Head (
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): in ♁ contiguously punctate with very small strong round punctures, densely clothed with long silvery pubescence; in
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very densely punctate with weaker punctures, more sparsely clothed, with less conspicuous silvery pubescence; clypeal excision shallow arcuate, with a narrow, reticulate, impunctate border; clypeal peaks poorly developed, obtuse to right angled; clypeal angles not, or little indicated; vertex flat, in ♁ slightly less than half width of head across eyes, in
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about half width of head across eyes, when viewed from above; eyes in ♁ very strongly convex, in
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strongly convex.
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Antenna: slightly sexually dimorphic; ♁ segment 3 very slightly triangularly expanded, segments 410 with the expansion quadrate;
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segment 3 not expanded, segment 4 triangularly expanded, segments 510 with expansion quadrate.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A0FC80EFF6AF92FFE1315A5" blockId="50.[151,1437,504,2043]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Scutellum: quadrate to slightly transverse, heart to shield shaped, about one-tenth to one- thirteenth width of elytra at base; microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A0FC80EFF6AF957FCD41485" blockId="50.[151,1437,504,2043]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Elytra: 2.142.38× 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 or three slightly raised intervals in internal half, the associated punctation partly arranged in regular longitudinal series, but not forming punctate striae, the punctures small, round, moderately dense, those of the subsutural depression slightly smaller; punctation in external half dense to very dense, consisting of slightly larger, transversely oval to ellipsoidal punctures, partly arranged in transverse rows; weakly microreticulate.</paragraph>
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Hypomeron (
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): very densely to contiguously punctate with large, very shallow mostly ovate punctures, with sparse short silvery pubescence, bottom of punctures microreticulate.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A0EC80FFF6AFF6CFA701262" blockId="51.[151,1437,151,1473]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">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="8B918D643A0EC80FFF6AFE94FBEF123E" blockId="51.[151,1437,151,1473]" box="[199,1047,295,321]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Mesanepisternum: densely punctate with small punctures of variable shape.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A0EC80FFF6AFEF8FD4F12D2" blockId="51.[151,1437,151,1473]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">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 sparse moderately long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
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Apical ventrite (
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): lunate punctures coalescing near the lateral margin and forming grooves; excision in ♁ broad, W shaped, with a roughly triangular sometimes truncated flange at the centre, with moderately long, well developed, slightly divergent lateral spines (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A0EC80FFD69FE4CFCE21166" box="[708,794,511,537]" captionStart="FIGURES 94100" captionStartId="46.[151,264,1793,1817]" captionTargetBox="[260,1330,181,1750]" captionTargetId="figure-30@46.[257,1330,181,1769]" captionTargetPageId="46" captionText="FIGURES 94100. apical ventrite: 94. M. cupricollis Kerremans (J Warrumbungle Ranges, N.S.W. ANIC); 95. M. cupricollis Kerremans (♀ Cabramatta, N.S.W.); 96. M. apicalis Macleay (J Mt. Hopeful, Q. TMSHC); 97. M. apicalis Macleay (♀ Mt. Hopeful, Q. TMSHC); 98. M. conicollis Obenberger (holotype ♀); 99. M. ordinata sp. n. (J Quibray Bay, N.S.W. BLC); 100. M. ordinata sp. n. (♀ Menai, N.S.W. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043159" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043159/files/figure.png" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Fig. 94</figureCitation>
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narrower, U shaped, with a moderately broad flange for its entire width, the lateral spines well developed slightly divergent (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A0EC80FFC10FD90FBE91142" box="[957,1041,546,573]" captionStart="FIGURES 94100" captionStartId="46.[151,264,1793,1817]" captionTargetBox="[260,1330,181,1750]" captionTargetId="figure-30@46.[257,1330,181,1769]" captionTargetPageId="46" captionText="FIGURES 94100. apical ventrite: 94. M. cupricollis Kerremans (J Warrumbungle Ranges, N.S.W. ANIC); 95. M. cupricollis Kerremans (♀ Cabramatta, N.S.W.); 96. M. apicalis Macleay (J Mt. Hopeful, Q. TMSHC); 97. M. apicalis Macleay (♀ Mt. Hopeful, Q. TMSHC); 98. M. conicollis Obenberger (holotype ♀); 99. M. ordinata sp. n. (J Quibray Bay, N.S.W. BLC); 100. M. ordinata sp. n. (♀ Menai, N.S.W. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043159" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043159/files/figure.png" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Fig. 95</figureCitation>
).
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A0EC80FFF6AFDF4FE5711FA" blockId="51.[151,1437,151,1473]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
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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.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A0EC80FFF6AFD3CFB3F11D6" blockId="51.[151,1437,151,1473]" box="[199,1223,655,681]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Mid tibia: almost straight without teeth or a depression along the ventral face in both sexes.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A0EC80FFF6AFD00FCA111B2" blockId="51.[151,1437,151,1473]" box="[199,857,691,717]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Tarsal claws widened at the base but without a basal tooth.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A0EC80FFF6AFD64FE4F1022" blockId="51.[151,1437,151,1473]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A0EC80FFEEAFD64FE14118E" box="[327,492,727,753]" 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="51" pageNumber="52">Figs 103, 104</figureCitation>
): parameres rather abruptly constricted before the apical setae bearing part; apical setae bearing part with regularly curved lateral margins, rather broad, spoon shaped, less chitinised than rest of parameres, with numerous small curved spine like setae, in addition to the usual long fine setae; median lobe with an arrow head shaped tip.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A0EC80FFF6AFCD4FE1510FE" blockId="51.[151,1437,151,1473]" box="[199,493,871,897]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Ovipositor: not examined.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C334DEEF3A0EC80FFF6AFC39FCE316BE" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B918D643A0EC80FFF6AFC39FEE1162A" blockId="51.[151,1437,151,1473]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFF6AFC39FEAA10DB" bold="true" box="[199,338,906,932]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Comments:</emphasis>
This species is most similar to
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFD64FC38FC8D10DA" box="[713,885,907,933]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">M. jacquelinae</emphasis>
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in overall appearance, but distinguished by the punctation at sides of the apical ventrite of the abdomen coalescent and forming longitudinal grooves, (coalescent but not forming grooves in
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFE64FC60FD891092" box="[457,625,979,1005]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">M. jacquelinae</emphasis>
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), and the punctation of hypomeron, which is composed of large shallow, ovate to ellipsoidal punctures, the flat bottoms of which are distinctly microsculptured (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A0EC80FFB23FC44FB1C176E" box="[1166,1252,1015,1041]" captionStart="FIGURES 8286" captionStartId="41.[151,264,1782,1806]" captionTargetBox="[248,1360,182,1758]" captionTargetId="figure-16@41.[228,1360,181,1758]" captionTargetPageId="41" captionText="FIGURES 8286. 82 dorsal habitus: M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (♀ Stanthorpe, Q.) Scale bar = 5.0 mm; 8384 hypomeron: 83. M. cupricollis Kerremans; 84. M. ordinata sp. n. 8586 prosternal process: 85. M. apicalis Macleay (J Mt. Hopeful, Q. TMSHC); 86. M. jacquelinae Turner &amp; Hawkeswood (J Berkshire Park, N.S.W. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043155" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043155/files/figure.png" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Fig. 83</figureCitation>
), (punctation of hypomeron composed of smaller, contiguous, mostly round or ovate punctures, the bottoms of which are not microsculptured in
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFEDEFB8CFDE41726" box="[371,540,1087,1113]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">M. jacquelinae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). The aedagus also differs from that of
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFC70FB8CFB7E1726" box="[989,1158,1087,1113]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">M. jacquelinae</emphasis>
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in having the parameres rather abruptly constricted before the apical setae bearing part, the apical setae bearing part being spoon shaped, apex of median lobe strongly arrow head shaped (Figs 103,104), (parameres more gradually constricted before the apical setae bearing part, the apical setae bearing part not spoon shaped, apex of median lobe less distinctly arrow head shaped in
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFEE8FB7CFE151796" box="[325,493,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">M. jacquelinae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Figs 109,110). This species is also very similar to
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFB9DFB7CFB4C1796" box="[1072,1204,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">M. ordinata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFB11FB7CFB031796" bold="true" box="[1212,1275,1231,1257]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A269EC0D3A0EC80FFB11FB7CFB031796" box="[1212,1275,1231,1257]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
which has the two former characters similar to those seen in
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFD09FB40FCB51672" box="[676,845,1267,1293]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">M. jacquelinae</emphasis>
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, but differs additionally in having two distinct costa in the inner half of the elytra, with the punctation arranged in more or less regular longitudinal series adjacent to these costa.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A0EC80FFF6AFAEDFCE316BE" blockId="51.[151,1437,151,1473]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFF6AFAEDFEB31607" bold="true" box="[199,331,1374,1400]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected from November to February, with most records from December &amp; January. Adults have been collected from bipinnate
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFD98FA30FD7B16E2" box="[565,643,1411,1437]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Acacia</emphasis>
sp.
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,
<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFD10FA30FB3C16E3" box="[701,1220,1411,1437]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A0EC80FFD10FA30FC9E16E2" box="[701,870,1411,1437]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cultriformis">A. cultriformis</taxonomicName>
,
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,
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A0EC80FFC55FA30FB3C16E3" box="[1016,1220,1411,1437]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="parramattensis">A. parramattensis</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
?,
<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFB46FA30FA6516E2" box="[1259,1437,1411,1437]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A0EC80FFB46FA30FA6116E2" box="[1259,1433,1411,1437]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="harpophylla">A. harpophylla</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
Larval host
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A0EC80FFEB0FA14FE4C16BE" box="[285,436,1447,1473]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">A. spectabilis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFBFF0953A0EC80FFE6FFA14FCE816BE" author="Turner, J. R. &amp; Hawkeswood, T. J." box="[450,784,1447,1473]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" pagination="205 - 212" refId="ref65021" refString="Turner, J. R. &amp; Hawkeswood, T. J. (2009) Melobasis abigailae sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), a new jewel beetle from Australia, with observations on its larval host plant and biology. Giornale Italiano di Entomologia, 12, 205 - 212." type="journal article" year="2009">Turner &amp; Hawkeswood 2009</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
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