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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9FFF9FFF121216C6ED4C36" blockId="29.[151,386,295,354]" box="[151,386,330,354]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">(Figs. 106, 169, 203)</paragraph>
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locality:
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,
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,
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sheep station (
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.
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(
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) Marloo Stn., Wurarga, W.A. 19311941 A. Goerling./
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B. Levey 2010.
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as follows.
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:
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,
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(
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,
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFF7612A2C6204F42" box="[243,335,510,534]" country="United Kingdom" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/e7dr-nxad" name="National Museum of Wales" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="Museum">NMWC</collectionCode>
) same data as
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;
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(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFD2C12A2C59E4F42" box="[681,753,510,534]" country="Australia" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:32981" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:32981" name="Australian National Insect Collection" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">ANIC</collectionCode>
) Wurarga W.A. Goerling;
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,
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFBDC12A2C3134F42" box="[1113,1148,510,534]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFB0912A2C38C4F42" box="[1164,1251,510,534]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">BMNH</collectionCode>
) Wurarga W.A., A. Goerling, 10.36, 1939-140;
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFE71117EC5714F6E" box="[500,542,546,570]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="male">3 ♂</specimenCount>
,
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFDA9117EC53F4F6E" box="[556,592,546,570]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFDDA117EC5DC4F6E" box="[607,691,546,570]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">ZMHB</collectionCode>
) W. Australien, Marloo Station, Wurarga, 1938, A. Goerling S.G.;
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFF12111AC7AF4F0A" box="[151,192,582,606]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="male">2 ♂</specimenCount>
(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFF4A111AC64C4F0A" box="[207,291,582,606]" country="Australia" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34982" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34982" name="South Australia Museum" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="Museum">SAMA</collectionCode>
) Ankertell W.A., H.W. Brown/ Co-Type HJC/ J. 15349,
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFC1C111AC3D24F0A" box="[921,1213,582,606]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Melobasis septemplagiata</emphasis>
Cart., W.
</taxonomicName>
Australia, Co type/
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFF791137C6A34FD7" box="[252,460,619,643]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
Cart.
</taxonomicName>
id by H.J. Carter;
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(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFC821136C40B4FD6" box="[775,868,618,642]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">WAMA</collectionCode>
) Cue W.A., H.W. Brown/
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF9FFF9FFB021137C2FC4FD6" authority="Cart." authorityName="Cart." box="[1159,1427,618,643]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="septemplagiata">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFB021137C2384FD7" box="[1159,1367,619,643]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
Cart.
</taxonomicName>
/ du Boulay coll./ 72-507;
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(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFD8511D2C5324FF2" box="[512,605,654,678]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">WAMA</collectionCode>
) Cue W.A., H.W. Brown/
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF9FFF9FFC1211D3C3044FF2" box="[919,1131,654,678]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="septemplagiata">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFC1211D3C3044FF2" box="[919,1131,654,678]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
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/ du Boulay coll./ 72-506/ Comp. with
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from S. Aust. Mus. labelled
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF9FFF9FFD7111EFC31B4F9F" authority="Cart. B. Levey" box="[756,1140,690,715]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="septemplagiata">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFD7111EFC4AA4F9F" box="[756,965,691,715]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
Cart. B. Levey
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det. 1974;
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(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFAB511EEC2FB4F9E" box="[1328,1428,690,714]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">TMSHC</collectionCode>
)
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E. of Yalgoo WA, T.M.S. Hanlon,
<date id="FFF31046FF9FFF9FFDF1118AC4294FBA" box="[628,838,726,750]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" value="2008-09-04">4 September 2008</date>
, on fine leaf
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;;
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(
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)
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N. of Byro Hmstd. WA,
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lvs. 29/09/04, M. Powell/ D. Knowles.
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFF421042C62E4E63" bold="true" box="[199,321,798,823]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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; head and pronotum brownish-, greenish- or black-bronze, the central half of the pronotum and the head usually with extensive blue and purple reflections; elytra brownishcopper to reddish-purple with the apices more or less extensively suffused with a reddish-violet or violet colour, with the following silvery-blue, silvery-green or pinkish-copper, markings: a sutural vitta in the basal quarter, sometimes joined to the humeral vitta along the basal margin and extending onto the epipleura to the level of the posterior coxa; a humeral vitta of the same length or slightly shorter; a sinuate median transverse fascia which is sometimes joined to the sutural vitta; a roughly obovate pre-apical macula; underside brownish- or greenishbronze; lateral parts of underside moderately densely clothed with fairly long silvery pubescence.
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Head: upper third of vertex densely punctured with fairly large round to ovate punctures; remainder of head very densely punctured with ovate punctures which largely coalesce to
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series orientated dorso-ventrally on the lower half of the vertex and the frontoclypeus; moderately densely to densely clothed with long silvery pubescence; unpunctured areas shiny to weakly microreticulate; clypeal excision rather shallow to moderately deep, U-shaped, with an unpunctured weakly to strongly microreticulate border, sometimes only well developed at centre of excision; clypeal peaks slightly acute to obtuse; vertex flat, slightly more than half the width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes weakly to moderately strongly convex.
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Antenna: serrate from segment 410, the segments becoming progressively smaller and slightly less elongate, the expanded part of each segment more or less quadrate in
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, that of segment 4 and sometimes 5 more or less triangular in
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, the rest more or less quadrate.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9FFF9FFF4216FBC24A4BEE" blockId="29.[151,1436,402,2010]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Pronotum: 1.481.58 times as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin strongly bisinuate, with a well developed broad median lobe; posterior margin bisinuate; widest at or near mid-length; lateral margins almost parallel for a short distance in front of posterior angles before diverging to widest point, or weakly diverging to widest point from posterior angles, thence moderately strongly curvilinearly converging to the anterior angles; slightly narrower at base than elytra at base; lateral carina slightly sinuate, about half to three-quarters complete; punctation sparse in central fifth, consisting of small round punctures, which become progressively larger and denser towards the lateral margin; usually with at least a partly developed unpunctured midline; shiny or with weak reticulate microsculpture; moderately densely clothed with fairly long silvery pubescence in lateral half.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9FFF9FFF42159AC63F4A56" blockId="29.[151,1436,402,2010]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Scutellum: quadrate to slightly elongate; weakly microsculptured; about one-thirteenth to one-sixteenth width of elytra at base.</paragraph>
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Elytra: 2.502.70 times as long as wide at the base; basal margin weakly to moderately strongly bisinuate; slightly widening from base over the humeral callosities; thence almost parallel sided or very slightly rectilinearly widening to the mid-length, before narrowing to the very slightly attenuated rounded apices; lateral margins from just beyond mid-length and apices with moderately coarse acute serrations; sutural margin strongly raised in apical half; inner half external of the subsutural depression often with at least traces of three costate intervals, the costate interval adjacent to the subsutural depression being better defined; subsutural depression sparsely punctured with very small round punctures; punctation lateral to the first costate interval consisting of larger denser punctures which become progressively denser, larger and more ovate towards the lateral margin, where they
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transverse series; moderately strongly microreticulate.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF421258C42A4C6B" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Proepisternum: very densely to contiguously punctured with moderately large, shallow, ovate and round punctures, partly obscured by dense long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF421210C2754C9B" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Prosternum: with a well defined bead at the anterior margin at almost the same level as the area behind; prosternal process slightly widening distally, sparsely punctured with small round or pin-prick punctures, with an irregular line of larger punctures near the lateral margin, and a line of partly coalescent punctures, sometimes forming a groove, next to the unpunctured lateral margin; glabrous or with a few setae near the margin.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF421280C5EC4F43" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Mesoepisternum: moderately densely to densely punctured, with large, shallow, round and ovate punctures; partly obscured by long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
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Apical sternite: with the lunate punctures coalescent near the lateral margin, but not forming well defined ridges; excision fairly deep, in
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about one and a half times as wide as deep, the lateral spines moderately developed, but not as long as depth of the flange (
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); in
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excision about twice as wide as deep, the spines shorter; distal margin of flange straight.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF4211E8C4F64F98" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" box="[199,921,692,716]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Tarsal claws: slightly widened at base, but without a basal tooth.</paragraph>
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Aedeagus (
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): elongate with a marked dorsal flexure.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF4211A0C5E34E40" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" box="[199,652,764,788]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Ovipositor: short, about as long as wide.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFF9CFF9CFF421043C6754E2B" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFF421043C6204E6C" bold="true" box="[199,335,799,824]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" reason="1">Comments.</emphasis>
This species is similar to
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFDF4107DC42E4E6C" box="[625,833,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
Carter
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, the pronotal shape and the aedeagus being the main diagnostic features distinguishing the two species. See comments under
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFB8A1019C38E4E08" box="[1039,1249,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
Carter
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for other differences.
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFF9CFF9CFF4210D0C6F8495B" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF4210D0C46E4E93" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFF4210D0C6214EF0" bold="true" box="[199,334,908,932]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" reason="1">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named after the late E. B. Britton who facilitated my visit to the museums in
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in 1974, when I embarked upon this revision.
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFF42108FC6254EB8" bold="true" box="[199,330,979,1004]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected in September and October. Adults collected on leaves of
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFB191088C3854EB8" box="[1180,1258,980,1004]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Acacia</emphasis>
sp. (Fabaceae)
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. Larval hosts unknown.
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