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W.A. R.
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFCBFFCBFCDF1145C4BB4F64" box="[858,980,536,560]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">M. robusta</emphasis>
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Other specimens examined.
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Albany; Bonnie Rock; Lake Grace; Marloo Station, Wurarga; Southern Cross; 13 Km S. of Yellowdine.
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Specimens examined from
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFFCBFFC8FF4211FBC3E84C48" lastPageId="74" lastPageNumber="75" pageId="73" pageNumber="74" type="diagnosis">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFCBFFCBFF4211FBC62E4F94" bold="true" box="[199,321,679,704]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="74" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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; entirely dark brown-bronze; underside sparsely to very sparsely clothed with short silvery pubescence.
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Head: very densely punctured with strong round and ovate punctures which coalesce to
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series on the lower two-thirds of the vertex; frontoclypeus sometimes strongly depressed medially; glabrous or with sparse short inconspicuous silvery pubescence on the frontoclypeus; unpunctured areas shiny or weakly microsculptured; clypeal excision shallow, U or V-shaped, with a microreticulate border only developed medially; clypeal peaks obtuse or rounded; vertex slightly convex, about three-fifths width of head across the eyes when viewed from above; eyes weakly to moderately convex.
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Antenna:
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serrate from segment 310, segment three slightly enlarged and triangular, segments 410 oblong, becoming progressively smaller;
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serrate from segment 410, segment 4 and sometimes 5 triangular, expanded part of other segments oblong.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFCBFFCBFF421768C2554813" blockId="73.[151,1437,355,2036]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Pronotum: 1.441.53 times as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin strongly bisinuate, with a strongly produced median lobe; anterior beaded margin narrow, but well defined; posterior margin bisinuate; widest at mid-length; lateral margins parallel sided for a short distant in front of posterior angles, before weakly diverging to mid-length, then strongly curvilinearly converging to the anterior angles; as wide at base as elytra at base; lateral carina slightly sinuate, about half to three-quarters complete; punctation moderately dense to dense medially, consisting of moderately large round or transversely ovate punctures, punctures becoming progressively larger and very dense laterally; without an unpunctured midline, however, sometimes with a poorly delineated sparsely punctured area on either side of the midline in the anterior half; shiny to weakly microsculptured; glabrous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFCBFFCBFF421608C2F24838" blockId="73.[151,1437,355,2036]" box="[199,1437,1364,1388]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Scutellum: quadrate to slightly transverse oblong, shiny, about one-tenth to one-fourteenth width of elytra at base.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFCBFFCBFF42162BC6CF4BD8" blockId="73.[151,1437,355,2036]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Elytra: 2.002.36 times as long as wide at base; basal margin weakly to moderately strongly bisinuate; slightly widening from base over the humeral callosities, thence parallel sided to slightly beyond mid-length, before narrowing to the rounded apices; lateral margins in apical half and apices with small weak serrations, sometimes only very slightly developed even at the apices; sutural margins slightly raised in apical third; subsutural depression moderately densely punctured with small round punctures; lateral to the subsutural depression the punctures become progressively larger and denser, becoming contiguous towards the lateral margin; sometimes with some longitudinal seriation of the punctation close to the subsutural depression, but without costate interstriae; weakly microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFCBFFCBFF4215CBC5A44B80" blockId="73.[151,1437,355,2036]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Proepisternum: moderately densely to densely punctured with large shallow ovate punctures, sparsely clothed with inconspicuous very short silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFCBFFCBFF4215BCC61C4A30" blockId="73.[151,1437,355,2036]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Prosternum: with a narrow bead at the anterior margin, the anterior margin at almost the same level as the area behind; prosternal process slightly widening distally, sparsely punctured with small round punctures, with a line of larger contiguous punctures close to the lateral margin for its entire length; glabrous or with very sparse short silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFCBFFCBFF421433C4BB4AD3" blockId="73.[151,1437,355,2036]" box="[199,980,1903,1928]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Mesoepisternum: shiny, with very sparse, mostly pin-prick punctures.</paragraph>
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Apical sternite: with moderately large lunate punctures, sometimes partly coalescent near the base and lateral margin; excision shallow crescent-shaped, about two to three times as wide as deep, the lateral spines slightly developed in
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, scarcely developed in
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Mid tibia:
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slightly curved, slightly swollen, with a long setae-filled depression on the ventral face,
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straight, without a setae-filled depression.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC8FFC8FF421383C4F64DA3" blockId="74.[151,1436,151,500]" box="[199,921,223,247]" pageId="74" pageNumber="75">Tarsal claws: slightly widened at base, but without a basal tooth.</paragraph>
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Aedeagus (
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): apical setae-bearing part of parameres with long fine setae only.
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFFC8FFC8FF42127BC3074CA0" pageId="74" pageNumber="75" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC8FFC8FF42127BC6024C9B" blockId="74.[151,1436,151,500]" pageId="74" pageNumber="75">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC8FFC8FF42127BC63E4C14" bold="true" box="[199,337,295,320]" pageId="74" pageNumber="75">Comments:</emphasis>
This very robust, brown-bronze, sparsely pubescent species is unlikely to be mistaken for any other species. In the field small specimens might be mistaken for large specimens of
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC8FFC8FBCC1211C3B64C30" box="[1097,1241,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="74" pageNumber="75">M. uniformis</emphasis>
Carter
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or brownbronze specimens of
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC8FFC8FE11122DC5484CDC" box="[404,551,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="74" pageNumber="75">M. cuprifera</emphasis>
(Laporte &amp; Gory)
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. The short sparse translucent silvery pubescence of the underside of this species will distinguish it from the former two species (pubescence of underside denser, longer and opaque white).
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC8FFC8FF421287C3074CA0" blockId="74.[151,1436,151,500]" box="[199,1128,475,500]" pageId="74" pageNumber="75">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC8FFC8FF421287C6254CA0" bold="true" box="[199,330,475,500]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="74" pageNumber="75" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected between October and January. Larval hosts unknown.
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