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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA8FFA8FF12145BC6464A75" ID-CoL="3ZLH9" authority="Levey, 2012" authorityName="Levey" authorityYear="2012" box="[151,297,1799,1825]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="knowlesi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FF12145BC6464A75" bold="true" box="[151,297,1799,1825]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">M. knowlesi</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF121476C6694A16" blockId="42.[151,371,1799,1858]" box="[151,262,1834,1858]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">(Fig. 113)</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FF12142EC6564ADE" bold="true" box="[151,313,1905,1930]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Type locality:</emphasis>
<collectingRegion id="4989F864FFA8FFA8FEC5142EC5644ADE" box="[320,523,1906,1930]" country="Australia" name="Western Australia" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
,
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. W. of Coolgardie.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF4214CAC4D54A85" blockId="42.[151,1436,1905,2037]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FF4214CAC56B4AFA" bold="true" box="[199,516,1941,1966]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" reason="1">Type specimens examined.</emphasis>
<materialsCitation id="3B253CDBFFA8FFA8FD8914C9C6384A85" collectingDate="1986-10-20" collectionCode="WAMA" collectorName="Coolgardie, WA &amp; D. Knowles" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" typeStatus="holotype">
<typeStatus id="54F68824FFA8FFA8FD8914C9C51B4AF9" box="[524,628,1941,1965]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
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(
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),
<quantity id="4CB59B63FFA8FFA8FC9614C9C4324AF9" box="[787,861,1941,1965]" metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.9" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" unit="km" value="29.0">29 km</quantity>
. W. of
<collectorName id="26B85350FFA8FFA8FC2B14C9C30B4AF9" box="[942,1124,1941,1965]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Coolgardie, WA</collectorName>
<date id="FFF31046FFA8FFA8FBE814C9C26D4AF9" box="[1133,1282,1941,1965]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" value="1986-10-20">
<collectingDate id="EFB7E9AEFFA8FFA8FBE814C9C26D4AF9" box="[1133,1282,1941,1965]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" value="1986-10-20">20 Oct. 1986</collectingDate>
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,
<collectorName id="26B85350FFA8FFA8FA8B14CAC2F84AF9" box="[1294,1431,1941,1965]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">D. Knowles</collectorName>
,
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on
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FF3F14E5C6674A85" box="[186,264,1977,2001]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Acacia</emphasis>
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leaves
</materialsCitation>
,
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA8FFA8FE7814E5C5B64A85" authority="Levey, 2012" authorityName="Levey" authorityYear="2012" box="[509,729,1977,2001]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="knowlesi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FE7814E5C5B64A85" box="[509,729,1977,2001]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Melobasis knowlesi</emphasis>
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B. Levey det.
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<materialsCitation id="3B253CDBFFA8FFA8FF121481C4854AA0" box="[151,1002,2012,2037]" collectingDate="1986-10-20" collectionCode="MPC" collectorName="Coolgardie, WA &amp; D. Knowles" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Western Australia" typeStatus="paratype">
<typeStatus id="54F68824FFA8FFA8FF121481C7964AA1" box="[151,249,2013,2037]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" type="paratype">Paratype</typeStatus>
as follows:
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<collectingRegion id="4989F864FFA8FFA8FE041481C5344AA1" box="[385,603,2012,2037]" country="Australia" name="Western Australia" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
:
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(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFA8FFA8FD191480C5B54AA0" box="[668,730,2012,2036]" country="0" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/yg5d-jfin" name="Monterey Peninsula College, Life Science Museum" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">MPC</collectionCode>
) same data as Holotype
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF1213CBC3814DA3" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
<materialsCitation id="3B253CDBFFA9FFA9FF1213CBC3854DA3" collectingDate="1987-01-27" collectionCode="MPC" collectorName="Zanthus, WA &amp; M. Powell" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1">
Other material examined:
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFA9FFA9FE3913CBC68F4DFB" box="[444,480,151,175]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFA9FFA9FE6B13CBC5434DFB" box="[494,556,151,175]" country="0" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/yg5d-jfin" name="Monterey Peninsula College, Life Science Museum" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">MPC</collectionCode>
)
<quantity id="4CB59B63FFA9FFA9FDBE13CBC5104DFB" box="[571,639,151,175]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.0" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" unit="km" value="4.0">4 km</quantity>
. W. of
<collectorName id="26B85350FFA9FFA9FD4B13CBC40D4DFB" box="[718,866,151,175]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Zanthus, WA</collectorName>
<date id="FFF31046FFA9FFA9FCEF13CBC4954DFB" box="[874,1018,151,175]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" value="1987-01-27">
<collectingDate id="EFB7E9AEFFA9FFA9FCEF13CBC4954DFB" box="[874,1018,151,175]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" value="1987-01-27">27 Jan. 1987</collectingDate>
</date>
,
<collectorName id="26B85350FFA9FFA9FB8213C4C3114DFB" box="[1031,1150,151,175]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">M. Powell</collectorName>
,
<collectedFrom id="3851757BFFA9FFA9FB0F13C4C3944DE4" box="[1162,1275,152,176]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
on
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA9FFA9FB2813C4C3944DE4" box="[1197,1275,152,176]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA9FFA9FB2813C4C3944DE4" box="[1197,1275,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Acacia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</collectedFrom>
leaves. I have not included this specimen in the
<typeStatus id="54F68824FFA9FFA9FDA313E0C5394D80" box="[550,598,188,212]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">type</typeStatus>
series because the ovipositor is more elongate and the elytral colour is slightly different to the
<typeStatus id="54F68824FFA9FFA9FE1A1383C6A04DA3" box="[415,463,223,247]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">type</typeStatus>
series, and may indicate that it belongs to another undescribed species
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF42125EC44A4C4E" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" box="[199,805,258,282]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Description based on the female only. Male unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF421279C3AE4F46" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA9FFA9FF421279C62E4C6A" bold="true" box="[199,321,293,318]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length 12.0
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; head and pronotum black-bronze sometimes with a slight green reflection; elytra blue-black, with the following coppery markings: a sutural vitta in the basal quarter, a humeral vitta about two-thirds the length of the sutural vitta, which extends laterally along the basal margin and along the lateral margin and the epipleura to the level of the hind coxa; a slightly sinuate transverse median fascia which extends from the outer edge of the subsutural depression almost to the lateral margin; an elongate pre-apical macula, which is as long or slightly longer than the sutural vitta; underside dark brownish- or greenish-bronze; lateral parts of underside moderately densely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence.
</paragraph>
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Head: upper third of vertex moderately densely to densely punctured with small to fairly large round punctures; remainder of head 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 clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence; unpunctured areas shiny; clypeal excision moderately deep, U-shaped, with an unpunctured weakly microreticulate border, only developed at centre of excision; clypeal peaks slightly acute to right angled; vertex flat, about three-fifths the width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes moderately strongly convex.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF42104AC3B04E05" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Antenna: serrate from segment 410, the segments becoming progressively smaller and slightly less elongate, the expanded part of segment 4 and sometimes 5 more or less triangular the rest slightly quadrate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF421002C5A24939" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Pronotum: 1.521.54 times as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin weakly bisinuate, the median lobe is scarcely produced and the margin is almost straight at the centre; basal margin bisinuate; widest at or near mid-length; lateral margins almost parallel from posterior angles to mid-length, 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 three-quarters complete; punctation moderately dense in central fifth, consisting of small round punctures, which become progressively larger and denser towards the lateral margin; with at least a partly developed unpunctured midline; moderately densely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence in lateral half.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF421725C21149C5" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" box="[199,1406,1145,1169]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Scutellum: quadrate to slightly elongate; weakly microsculptured; about one-twelfth width of elytra at base.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF4217C0C35748DD" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Elytra: 2.402.42 times as long as wide at the base; basal margin strongly bisinuate; very slightly widening from base over the humeral callosities; thence 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; a slightly raised costate interval bordering the subsutural depression; subsutural depression sparsely punctured with very small round punctures; punctation lateral to the costate interval consisting of larger denser punctures which become progressively denser and larger towards the lateral margin; weakly microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF4216C8C5EE4884" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Proepisternum: very densely punctured with moderately large, shallow, ovate and round punctures, partly obscured by dense long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF421680C3BD4B6E" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Prosternum: with a narrow bead at the anterior margin at almost the same level as the area behind; prosternal process strongly widening distally, sparsely punctured with small round or pin-prick punctures, with a line of larger partly coalescent punctures near the lateral margin; glabrous or with a few setae near the margin.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF42151AC6C34BD5" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Mesoepisternum: densely punctured, with large, shallow, round and ovate punctures; with moderately dense long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF4215D1C5C04BB8" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Apical sternite: with the lunate punctures coalescent near the lateral margin, forming strong ridges parallel to the lateral margin; excision about twice as wide as deep; the lateral spines slightly developed, but not as long as depth of flange; distal margin of flange straight.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF4215ABC4F64A5B" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" box="[199,921,1783,1807]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Tarsal claws: slightly widened at base, but without a basal tooth.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF421447C5E34A67" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" box="[199,652,1819,1843]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Ovipositor: short, about as long as wide.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF421463C58A4ACB" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA9FFA9FF421463C63E4A0C" bold="true" box="[199,337,1855,1880]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Comments:</emphasis>
This species is most similar to
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA9FFA9FD37141CC43D4A03" authority="Levey, 2012" authorityName="Levey" authorityYear="2012" box="[690,850,1855,1879]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavoaenea" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA9FFA9FD37141CC43D4A03" box="[690,850,1855,1879]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">M. flavoaenea</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20A57EFFFA9FFA9FCDC141CC4F74A0C" box="[857,920,1856,1880]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
and
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA9FFA9FC4A141CC3354A03" box="[975,1114,1855,1879]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">M. goerlingi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA9FFA9FBE7141CC3CE4A0C" bold="true" box="[1122,1185,1856,1880]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20A57EFFFA9FFA9FBE7141CC3CE4A0C" box="[1122,1185,1856,1880]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
It differs from both in elytral markings and also in having a slightly narrower vertex, three-fifths the width of the head across they eyes instead of three-quarters and two-thirds respectively.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C357650DFFA9FFA9FF4214F7C2024AB3" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF4214F7C3F64A97" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" box="[199,1177,1963,1988]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA9FFA9FF4214F7C6214A97" bold="true" box="[199,334,1963,1987]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" reason="1">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named after David Knowles the collector of the
<typeStatus id="54F68824FFA9FFA9FB9F14F0C3254A90" box="[1050,1098,1964,1988]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">type</typeStatus>
series.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA9FFA9FF421493C2024AB3" blockId="43.[151,1436,151,2024]" box="[199,1389,1999,2024]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA9FFA9FF421493C6254ABC" bold="true" box="[199,330,1999,2024]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults have been collected in October from
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA9FFA9FCC71493C4FF4AB3" box="[834,912,1999,2023]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Acacia</emphasis>
(Fabaceae)
</taxonomicName>
leaves. Larval hosts unknown.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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