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.
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(
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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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) same data as
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;
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(
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) Wurarga W.A. Goerling;
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,
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(
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<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFB0912A2C38C4F42" box="[1164,1251,510,534]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">BMNH</collectionCode>
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) Wurarga W.A., A. Goerling, 10.36, 1939-140;
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,
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(
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<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFDDA117EC5DC4F6E" box="[607,691,546,570]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">ZMHB</collectionCode>
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) W. Australien, Marloo Station, Wurarga, 1938, A. Goerling S.G.;
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFF12111AC7AF4F0A" box="[151,192,582,606]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="male">2 ♂</specimenCount>
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(
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<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>
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) Ankertell W.A., H.W. Brown/ Co-Type HJC/ J. 15349,
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF9FFF9FFC1C111AC2474F0A" authority="Cart., W." authorityName="Cart., W." box="[921,1320,582,606]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="septemplagiata">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFC1C111AC3D24F0A" box="[921,1213,582,606]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Melobasis septemplagiata</emphasis>
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Cart., W.
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Australia, Co type/
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFF791137C6A34FD7" box="[252,460,619,643]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
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Cart.
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</taxonomicName>
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id by H.J. Carter;
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFD531136C5964FD6" box="[726,761,618,642]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
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(
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<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFC821136C40B4FD6" box="[775,868,618,642]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">WAMA</collectionCode>
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) Cue W.A., H.W. Brown/
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<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">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFB021137C2384FD7" box="[1159,1367,619,643]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
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Cart.
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</taxonomicName>
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/ du Boulay coll./ 72-507;
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(
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<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFD8511D2C5324FF2" box="[512,605,654,678]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">WAMA</collectionCode>
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) Cue W.A., H.W. Brown/
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<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">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFC1211D3C3044FF2" box="[919,1131,654,678]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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/ du Boulay coll./ 72-506/ Comp. with
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFEA011EFC6554F9E" box="[293,314,691,714]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="male">♂</specimenCount>
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from S. Aust. Mus. labelled
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<typeStatus id="54F68824FF9FFF9FFD0611EEC5844F9E" box="[643,747,690,714]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
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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">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFD7111EFC4AA4F9F" box="[756,965,691,715]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
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Cart. B. Levey
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</taxonomicName>
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det. 1974;
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFB7311EEC24D4F9E" box="[1270,1314,690,714]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
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(
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)
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E. of Yalgoo WA, T.M.S. Hanlon,
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<date id="FFF31046FF9FFF9FFDF1118AC4294FBA" box="[628,838,726,750]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" value="2008-09-04">4 September 2008</date>
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, on fine leaf
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF9FFF9FFC5B118AC3434FBA" box="[990,1068,726,750]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFC5B118AC3434FBA" box="[990,1068,726,750]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Acacia</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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;;
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFBC9118AC3154FBA" box="[1100,1146,726,750]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
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(
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<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FF9FFF9FFB0C118AC3A84FBA" box="[1161,1223,726,750]" country="0" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/yg5d-jfin" name="Monterey Peninsula College, Life Science Museum" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">MPC</collectionCode>
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)
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N. of Byro Hmstd. WA,
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFEAC11A7C6184E47" box="[297,375,763,787]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Acacia</emphasis>
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lvs. 29/09/04, M. Powell/ D. Knowles.
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFF9FFF9CFF421042C5E34E40" lastPageId="30" lastPageNumber="31" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9FFF9FFF421042C3B54966" blockId="29.[151,1436,402,2010]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9FFF9FFF421042C62E4E63" bold="true" box="[199,321,798,823]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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General diagnosis: length
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<quantity id="4CB59B63FF9FFF9FFDEA1042C4674E62" box="[623,776,798,822]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.85" metricValueMax="10.4" metricValueMin="9.3" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" unit="mm" value="9.85" valueMax="10.4" valueMin="9.3">9.3–10.4 mm</quantity>
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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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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9FFF9FFF421762C35A487A" blockId="29.[151,1436,402,2010]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">
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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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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF9FFF9FFC34173EC341492E" box="[945,1070,1122,1146]" form="linear" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="form">form linear</taxonomicName>
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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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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9FFF9FFF421666C5F448CE" blockId="29.[151,1436,402,2010]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">
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Antenna: serrate from segment 4–10, the segments becoming progressively smaller and slightly less elongate, the expanded part of each segment more or less quadrate in
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFCD51603C40A4822" box="[848,869,1375,1398]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="male">♂</specimenCount>
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, that of segment 4 and sometimes 5 more or less triangular in
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9FFF9FFEA216DFC65348CE" box="[295,316,1411,1434]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="female">♀</specimenCount>
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, the rest more or less quadrate.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9FFF9FFF4216FBC24A4BEE" blockId="29.[151,1436,402,2010]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Pronotum: 1.48–1.58 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>
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<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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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9FFF9CFF421452C5984DA3" blockId="29.[151,1436,402,2010]" lastBlockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" lastPageId="30" lastPageNumber="31" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">
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Elytra: 2.50–2.70 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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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF9CFF9CFAA713E0C2F34D80" box="[1314,1436,188,212]" form="short" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" rank="form">form short</taxonomicName>
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transverse series; moderately strongly microreticulate.
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</paragraph>
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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>
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<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>
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<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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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF421178C53B4FF3" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
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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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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9CFF9CFD891114C54E4F0B" box="[524,545,584,607]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" type="male">♂</specimenCount>
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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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<figureCitation id="13762A03FF9CFF9CFD491130C4404FD0" box="[716,815,620,644]" captionStart="FIGURES 196–206" captionStartId="104.[151,258,1864,1885]" captionTargetBox="[248,1335,232,1818]" captionTargetId="figure-143@104.[228,1366,191,1848]" captionTargetPageId="104" captionText="FIGURES 196–206. Melobasis spp. formosa species group excision of apical sternites: 196–198 M. amoena sp. n.: 196. ♂ (paratype, 1km E. of Youanmi, W.A.); 197. ♀ (paratype, Youanmi, W.A.); 198. ♀ (Kitchener, W.A.); 199. M. marlooensis Carter ♂ (Wurarga, W.A.); 200–201 M. burnsi sp. n.; 200. ♂ (26 km S. of Menzies, W.A.); 201. ♀ (26 km S. of Menzies, W.A.); 202 M. flavoaenea sp. n. ♀ (holotype, 11 km S. of Billabong Roadhouse, W.A.); 203 M. brittoni sp. n. ♂ (paratype, Ankertell, W.A.); 204 M. powelli sp. n. ♂ (paratype, 33–35 km N. of Paynes Find, W.A.); 205 M. meyricki Blackburn ♂ (7 miles E. of Coral Bay, W.A.); 206 M. nudipectus sp. n. ♂ (paratype, Ellendale)." pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Fig. 203</figureCitation>
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); in
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF9CFF9CFCE41130C4194FD7" box="[865,886,620,643]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" type="female">♀</specimenCount>
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excision about twice as wide as deep, the spines shorter; distal margin of flange straight.
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||
</paragraph>
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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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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF42118BC4054FBB" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" box="[199,874,727,751]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
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Aedeagus (
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<figureCitation id="13762A03FF9CFF9CFEC0118BC6C84FBB" box="[325,423,727,751]" captionStart="FIGURES 164–170" captionStartId="99.[151,257,1918,1939]" captionTargetBox="[217,1379,205,1871]" captionTargetId="figure-81@99.[198,1394,191,1899]" captionTargetPageId="99" captionText="FIGURES 164–170. Melobasis spp. formosa species group aedeagi: 164. M. burnsi sp. n. (paratype, 26 km S. of Menzies); 165. M. formosa Carter (Cue, W.A.); 166. M. brevis sp. n. (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 167. M. dividua sp. n. (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 168. M. marlooensis Carter (Wurarga, W.A.); 169. M. brittoni sp. n. (paratype, Ankertell, W.A.); 170. M. flexa sp. n. (Bencubbin, W.A.). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Fig. 169</figureCitation>
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): elongate with a marked dorsal flexure.
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</paragraph>
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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>
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||
<subSubSection id="C357650DFF9CFF9CFF421043C6754E2B" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" type="discussion">
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||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF421043C6754E2B" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFF421043C6204E6C" bold="true" box="[199,335,799,824]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" reason="1">Comments.</emphasis>
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This species is similar to
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF9CFF9CFDF4107DC4FF4E63" authority="Carter" authorityName="Carter" box="[625,912,799,824]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="septemplagiata">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFDF4107DC42E4E6C" box="[625,833,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
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Carter
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||
</taxonomicName>
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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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||
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF9CFF9CFB8A1019C25F4E08" authority="Carter" authorityName="Carter" box="[1039,1328,836,860]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="septemplagiata">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFB8A1019C38E4E08" box="[1039,1249,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">M. septemplagiata</emphasis>
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Carter
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</taxonomicName>
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for other differences.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFF9CFF9CFF4210D0C6F8495B" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" type="etymology">
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF4210D0C46E4E93" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFF4210D0C6214EF0" bold="true" box="[199,334,908,932]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" reason="1">Etymology.</emphasis>
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This species is named after the late E. B. Britton who facilitated my visit to the museums in
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<collectingCountry id="F35A7616FF9CFF9CFF1210F3C7914E93" box="[151,254,943,967]" name="Australia" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Australia</collectingCountry>
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in 1974, when I embarked upon this revision.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9CFF9CFF42108FC6F8495B" blockId="30.[151,1436,151,1039]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFF42108FC6254EB8" bold="true" box="[199,330,979,1004]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
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||
Adults collected in September and October. Adults collected on leaves of
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF9CFF9CFB191088C2F64EB8" box="[1180,1433,980,1004]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
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||
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFB191088C3854EB8" box="[1180,1258,980,1004]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Acacia</emphasis>
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||
sp. (Fabaceae)
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. Larval hosts unknown.
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||
</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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