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/ 6972
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T./
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det. 1995/ Blackburn Coll. 1910-236. [Blackburns notebook in
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Other specimens examined:
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Chapman River; Coronation Beach,
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N. of Geraldton; Eradu; False Entrance Well; Fitzgerald River National Park; Geraldton; Greenough;
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S. of Gregory. Specimens examined from AMSA; ANIC; BLC; MMSA; NMWC; SAMA; NMPC; TMSHC; UQA; WADA; WAMA; ZMHB.
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General diagnosis: length
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; head mostly deep reddish violet to blackish lilac, sometimes partly blackish green on upper part of vertex, the impunctate border of the fronto-clypeal excision sometimes partly blue-green or coppery; pronotum brownish to blackish bronze, the lateral margins in basal half usually more or less extensively reddish violet to coppery; elytra with the areas between the costae mostly greenish bronze, the costae and raised sutural margin predominantly deep violet to blue-black, with the following coppery markings: a narrow sutural vitta in the basal fifth (sometimes absent); an elongate median macula just before the mid-length, which is sometimes entirely confined to the 1
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costa; two very narrow elongate vittae in the basal fifth, and at the apical third, confined to the 2
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costa; a very narrow elongate vitta at the apical third, confined to the apex of the 3
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costa (sometimes absent); a very narrow elongate vitta just basal of the mid-length, confined to the 4
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costa; underside predominantly brownish bronze to brownish copper in the glabrous central parts, becoming blackish- or greenish bronze in the lateral densely pubescent parts.
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<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974BC5576F829845FAF140CD" blockId="27.[151,1437,1114,2012]" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Head (Fig. 150): contiguously punctate with small strong punctures, which are arranged in dorso-ventrally orientated linear series over most of the vertex and frontoclypeus; densely to very densely clothed with long silvery pubescence, which partly obscures the punctation; ridges between the punctures shiny; clypeal excision shallow U- or V-shaped, with a fairly broad complete, impunctate, microreticulate border; clypeal peaks right angled; vertex flat, slightly more than half width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes very strongly convex.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974BC5506F82988EFE9747AF" blockId="27.[151,1437,1114,2012]" lastBlockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" lastPageId="28" lastPageNumber="29" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Antenna (Fig. 190): not sexually dimorphic; weakly triangularly serrate from segment 410, becoming progressively more petiolate, and slightly progressively shorter; segment 3 about 3 to 4 × as long as wide at its widest point.</paragraph>
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Elytra 2.482.65 × as long as wide at base; basal margin weakly biangulate; slightly widening from the base over the humeral callosities, thence almost parallel sided to a little beyond mid-length, before narrowing to the rounded or sub-acute apices; lateral margins in apical third and apices with moderately coarse acute serrations, the tooth nearest the suture often larger producing a sub-acute apex to the elytra; sutural margins slightly raised in apical third to half, becoming costate nearer the base, and widening in basal quarter to produce a slightly raised elongate slightly triangular shaped area (sutural boss); each elytron with four approximately equidistant costae as follows: 1st widest, extending from base almost to apex; 2
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extending from base to apical fifth; 3
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extending from the humeral callosity to apical third; 4
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to apical fifth; the costae, raised sutural margin and sutural boss, sparsely punctate, with very small, weak, and pin-prick punctures; remainder of elytra very densely punctate, with small, stronger, mostly transversely elliptical punctures, which often form tranverse series near the lateral margin; moderately strongly microreticulate.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506F829C90FD94436C" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Hypomeron: very densely to contiguously punctate, with small, partly imbricate punctures, mostly obscured by very dense long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506F829B68FAB143F8" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Prosternum: with a narrow bead at the anterior margin, sometimes absent in the central part; the anterior margin at the same level as the area behind; laterally with slightly developed tubercles just behind the margin; prosternal process slightly widening distally, sparsely punctate, with small, weak, round, and pin-prick punctures, glabrous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506F829BC7FD8443B0" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Mesanepisternum (Fig. 182): densely to very densely punctate, with small, round, shallow punctures, partly obscured by long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506F829B9FFB06424C" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Central part of metaventrite, inner part of metacoxa, and central part of abdominal ventrites glabrous, more sparsely and weakly punctate than lateral parts of the these structures, which are densely to very densely punctate, and very densely clothed with long silvery pubescence, which largely obscures the punctation.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506F829A0BFAE442BC" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">
Apical ventrite (Figs 104105): lunate punctures coalescing to form grooves parallel to the lateral margin; excision in
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broad, W shaped, with the flange produced at the centre as a narrow truncate lobe, with well developed lateral spines slightly turned in towards the midline (Fig. 104);
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narrow, deep U-shaped, the flange slightly developed, the lateral spines well developed parallel or slightly turned in towards midline (Fig. 105).
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Fore tibia:
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almost straight, with a large posteriorly facing tooth at apex, several smaller teeth behind it on the ventral surface, and a setal brush on the anterior face at the apex (Figs 204205);
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teeth absent, and setal brush less developed.
</paragraph>
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Mid tibia:
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slightly curved, with a few widely spaced teeth on the inner face (Fig. 206);
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almost straight, without serrations.
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<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506F8299CFFEA0419C" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Aedeagus (Figs 4546): parameres strongly widening towards the base; apical setae bearing part with numerous, large, slightly curved, spine-like setae, in addition to the usual long fine setae; median lobe with a rounded tip.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506F8299BBFE524070" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" box="[199,493,1777,1802]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Ovipositor: not examined.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506F82985FFB134028" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis id="B911EAE5974CC5506F82985FFEF04054" bold="true" box="[199,335,1813,1838]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Comments.</emphasis>
The unusual elytral markings of this species make it unlikely that it will be confused with any other known species. This species appears to be confined to the coastal areas of W.
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.
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<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506F829817FD0F40E0" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis id="B911EAE5974CC5506F829817FEF5400C" bold="true" box="[199,330,1885,1910]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected late SeptemberNovember on flowering
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<emphasis id="B911EAE5974CC5506CAD9814FB89400F" box="[1000,1078,1886,1909]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Acacia</emphasis>
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spp. Adult reared from
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<emphasis id="B911EAE5974CC5506A0B9814FEB340E3" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Acacia cochlearis</emphasis>
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from Fitzgerald River National Park.
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<subSubSection id="C37F657C974CC5506FD298EFFDD6409A" pageId="28" pageNumber="29" type="description">
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506FD298EFFE2E40C5" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" box="[151,401,1957,1983]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">
<taxonomicName id="4C654D74974CC5506FD298EFFE2E40C5" authority="(Pochon)" authorityName="Pochon" baseAuthorityName="Pochon" baseAuthorityYear="1967" box="[151,401,1957,1983]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="28" pageNumber="29" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kaszabi">
<emphasis id="B911EAE5974CC5506FD298EFFE2E40C5" bold="true" box="[151,401,1957,1983]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis id="B911EAE5974CC5506FD298EFFEA640C5" bold="true" box="[151,281,1957,1983]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">M. kaszabi</emphasis>
(Pochon)
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974CC5506FD29882FDD6409A" blockId="28.[151,1437,151,2017]" box="[151,617,1992,2017]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">(Figs 26, 6364, 127128, 162, 173, 207)</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="4C654D74974DC5516FD29FF7FE5447A8" authority="Pochon 1967: 279" authorityName="Pochon" authorityPageNumber="279" authorityYear="1967" box="[151,491,188,210]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Liliaceae" genus="Briseis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" order="Liliales" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="kaszabi">
<emphasis id="B911EAE5974DC5516FD29FF7FE8F47A8" box="[151,304,188,210]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Briseis kaszabi</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="EFF44B06974DC5516E739FF6FE0147A8" author="Pochon, H." box="[310,446,188,210]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" pagination="279 - 282" refId="ref52575" refString="Pochon, H. (1967) Beschreibung neuer Buprestiden aus der Sammlung des Naturwissenschaftlichen Museums, Budapest, 2 Teil. Annales Historico-Naturale Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 59, 279 - 282." type="journal article" year="1967">Pochon 1967</bibRefCitation>
:279
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;
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<bibRefCitation id="EFF44B06974DC5516EB09FF6FD3547A8" author="Bellamy, C. L." box="[501,650,188,210]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" refId="ref51077" refString="Bellamy, C. L. (2002) Coleoptera: Buprestoidea. In: Houston, W. W. K. (Ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Fol. 29.5. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, pp. i-xii + 1 - 492, 4 color pls." type="journal volume" year="2002">Bellamy 2002</bibRefCitation>
:143
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; 2008:1324;
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Bellamy
<emphasis id="B911EAE5974DC5516CD19FF7FC7847A8" box="[916,967,188,210]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">et al.</emphasis>
2013
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:58
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<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516FD29FB4FC8A4641" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">
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<emphasis id="B911EAE5974DC5516FD29FB4FE84466D" bold="true" box="[151,315,254,279]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">
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locality:
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<collectingRegion id="49A1F815974DC5516E009FB5FDAF466D" box="[325,528,254,279]" country="Australia" name="Western Australia" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
(
<collectingCountry id="F3727667974DC5516D679FB4FD34466D" box="[546,651,254,279]" name="Australia" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Australia</collectingCountry>
occid.) [Modern specimens of this species are only known from N.
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, and the
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locality is undoubtedly incorrect]
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516F829E0CFC6A46F9" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">
<emphasis id="B911EAE5974DC5516F829E0CFDB94625" bold="true" box="[199,518,326,351]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Type specimens examined.</emphasis>
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<typeStatus id="54DE8855974DC5516D489E0DFDD04625" box="[525,623,327,351]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="paratype">Paratype</typeStatus>
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(
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occid. 1192/ Typus/
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<emphasis id="B911EAE5974DC5516B109E0DFB404624" box="[1109,1279,326,350]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Briseis kaszabi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
m.
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Type
<determinerName id="7E06DA33974DC5516A289E0DFEFB46F9" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Det. Dr. Obenberger</determinerName>
</collectorName>
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/
<typeStatus id="54DE8855974DC5516E169E21FE7E46F9" box="[339,449,363,387]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="paratype">Paratypus</typeStatus>
/
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<emphasis id="B911EAE5974DC5516E959E21FDC646F9" box="[464,633,363,387]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Briseis kaszabi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
m. Det. H. Pochon,
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.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B911EAE5974DC5516F829EC4FD0846DD" bold="true" box="[199,695,398,423]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Other specimens examined. Queensland:</emphasis>
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<specimenCount id="9D63FD7E974DC5516D849EC5FD5146DC" box="[705,750,399,423]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
(
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,
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<quantity id="4C9D9B12974DC5516C9F9EC5FBF746DD" box="[986,1096,398,423]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.3528" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" unit="ft" value="1100.0">1100 feet</quantity>
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,
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<date id="FFDB1037974DC5516B139EC5FB4D46DD" box="[1110,1266,399,423]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" value="1948-01">January 1948</date>
</collectingDate>
, on
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<collectorName id="26905321974DC5516A609EC4FA2446DC" box="[1317,1435,398,422]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Alphitonia</collectorName>
</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911EAE5974DC5516FD29EF9FF5546B1" box="[151,234,435,459]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">excelsa</emphasis>
Reiss, J.G. Brooks
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;
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<collectingCountry id="F3727667974DC5516D8D9EF8FCB046B1" box="[712,783,434,459]" name="Iceland" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Island</collectingCountry>
,
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1910
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;
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<specimenCount id="9D63FD7E974DC5516CF89EF9FC5546B0" box="[957,1002,435,459]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
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, 12/52, G.B
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.;
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<specimenCount id="9D63FD7E974DC5516A2A9EF9FA2346B0" box="[1391,1436,435,459]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
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,
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Saund
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C37F657C974DC5526F829D08FE524562" lastPageId="30" lastPageNumber="31" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="diagnosis">
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<emphasis id="B911EAE5974DC5516F829D08FEFE4521" bold="true" box="[199,321,578,603]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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; upperside brownish bronze to greenish bronze, the elytra with more or less extensive reddish violet reflections in the inner half; underside brownish bronze to greenish bronze.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516F829DE4FAEC4400" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">
Head (Fig. 162): contiguously punctate with small round strong punctures in
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, very densely to almost contiguously punctate in
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, the punctures slightly weaker; densely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence, which does not obscure the punctation; rims of the punctures shiny to weakly microreticulate; clypeal excision shallow to very shallow, broad, U-shaped, with a narrow impunctate microreticulate border only developed at the centre of the excision; clypeal peaks obtuse angled without a defined clypeal angle; vertex flat, slightly more than one third width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes very strongly convex.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516F829CCDFF4044B9" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Antenna: segments expanded from 411, segment 4 with expansion triangular, segments 511 with expansion quadrate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516F829C85FA26427D" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Pronotum: 1.521.60 × as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin strongly bisinuate, with a slightly developed, broad median lobe; with a fairly broad well defined beaded margin; posterior margin weakly bisinuate; widest at basal third to mid-length; lateral margins slightly diverging from basal angles to widest point, often with a slight sinuation a short distance anterior to the basal angles, before converging to apical angles; basal angles right or obtuse angled; as wide as or very slightly narrower at base than elytra at base; lateral carina straight for most of its length, but strongly incurved near the apex, about four-fifths complete; punctation in central third of pronotum dense, consisting of small, mostly transversely elliptical punctures, mostly arranged in slightly sinuate transverse series, laterally the punctures become very dense, larger, and progressively more oval towards the lateral margin; with inconspicuous sparse short silvery pubescence close to the lateral margin, mainly confined to the apical third.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516F829A58FAF64251" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" box="[199,1353,1298,1323]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Scutellum: very small shield shaped, about one-eighteenth to one twenty-fourth width of elytra at base.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516F829A7CFB624131" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Elytra 2.282.45 × as long as wide at base; slightly to rather noticeably widening from the base over the humeral callosities, thence parallel sided, or slightly widening to mid-length, before narrowing to the rounded or sub-acute apices; lateral margins in apical half and apices with coarse acute serrations; sutural margins slightly raised in apical two-thirds; each elytron with at most very slight indications of one or two costate intervals in the internal half; internal half moderately densely punctate with small round punctures, punctures between the slightly costate intervals largely arranged in longitudinal series adjacent to the costate intervals; punctation in external half denser, consisting of larger, transversely oval to elliptical punctures, which become progressively larger towards the lateral margin, where they become almost contiguous; very weakly to weakly microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516F82991DFE4041E9" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Hypomeron: very densely to contiguously punctate, with large, very shallow, mostly ovate punctures, with sparse short silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516F8299D5FC284185" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Prosternum: with a broad bead at the anterior margin; the anterior margin at the same level as the area behind; prosternal process slightly or moderately strongly widening distally, sparsely punctate, with small, weak, round, and pin-prick punctures, glabrous or with a few setae at the margins.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516F829840FEE1403D" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Mesanepisternum (Fig. 173): shiny, mirror like, sometimes with a few large shallow setae bearing punctures in the posterior half.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5516F829818FBA340C9" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Central part of metaventrite, inner part of metacoxa, central part of abdominal ventrites glabrous or very sparsely pubescent, 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>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974DC5526F8298F4FDD24782" blockId="29.[151,1437,254,2007]" lastBlockId="30.[151,1437,151,717]" lastPageId="30" lastPageNumber="31" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">
Apical ventrite (Figs 127128): lunate punctures coalescing near the lateral margin and forming grooves; excision in
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broad, W shaped, with a narrow, approximately triangular lobe at the centre, with moderately long well developed, very slightly convergent lateral spines (Fig. 127);
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very narrow, U-shaped, the lateral spines well developed, slightly convergent (Fig. 128).
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<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974EC5526F829E4FFBF0463A" blockId="30.[151,1437,151,717]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
Fore tibia:
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strongly curved, with a very small triangular tooth at apex, and a slightly developed setal brush on the anterior face at the apex;
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slightly less curved and tooth absent, or even smaller.
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Mid tibia:
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rather swollen, strongly curved, and with a series of small teeth along the ventral posterior margin (Fig. 207);
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noticeably widening towards apex, almost straight and without teeth.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974EC5526F829EDEFBF1468F" blockId="30.[151,1437,151,717]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Aedeagus (Figs 6364): parameres strongly constricted before the apical setae bearing part; apical setae bearing part about one quarter the total length of the parameres; setae bearing part with long, very slightly curved, spine-like setae, in addition to the usual long fine setae; median lobe sub-acute at tip.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36F7974EC5526F829EB5FE524562" blockId="30.[151,1437,151,717]" box="[199,493,511,536]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Ovipositor: not examined.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B911EAE5974EC5526F829D6EFEF04547" bold="true" box="[199,335,548,573]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Comments.</emphasis>
This very distinct species cannot be confused with any other in the species group. The aedeagus is very different from that of the other species, and the vertex is narrower than in the other species. It is the only known species of the group that occurs in the North Tropical areas of
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.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B911EAE5974EC5526F829DC5FEF545D2" bold="true" box="[199,330,655,680]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults have been collected from December to February. One specimen was collected on
<emphasis id="B911EAE5974EC5526FD29DFEFEB245B6" box="[151,269,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Alphitonia</emphasis>
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(Fenzl) (Rhamnaceae)
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. Larval host
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(
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).
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