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M.
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Obenberger
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(Fairmaire 1877)
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locality
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A67C866FF3AFA33FEDA16E8" bold="true" box="[151,290,1407,1432]" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">
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locality
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:
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.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A67C866FF3AFA75FE2516A0" bold="true" box="[151,477,1477,1504]" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Type specimens examined.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A67C866FE44FA75FD0E169F" box="[489,758,1478,1504]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Melobasis azureipennis</emphasis>
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here designated ♁ (
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)
<specimenCode id="DB88251F3A67C866FA96FA75FA6C169F" box="[1339,1428,1478,1504]" collectionCode="AMSA" country="South Africa" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/ymbs-hrkx" name="Albany Museum" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">K32113</specimenCode>
/
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A67C866FF3AFA59FE58157B" box="[151,416,1514,1540]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Melobasis azureipennis</emphasis>
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McL.
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/
<typeStatus id="549533C63A67C866FDD2FA59FD13157B" box="[639,747,1514,1540]" pageId="90" pageNumber="91" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
. [
<specimenCount id="9D2846ED3A67C866FD50FA59FCD1157B" box="[765,809,1514,1540]" pageId="90" pageNumber="91" type="female">2 ♀</specimenCount>
(
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) with same registration number but no locality label may be part of the original type series, but since specimens from two localities are registered under that number, I have not made them
<typeStatus id="549533C63A67C866FDA8F981FD521533" box="[517,682,1586,1612]" pageId="90" pageNumber="91" type="paralectotype">paralectotypes</typeStatus>
. There were two very badly damaged specimens in MMSA from Gayndah which might be part of the original type series].
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<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A67C866FF6AF9C9FDCE15EB" authority="Thomson" authorityName="Thomson" authorityYear="1879" box="[199,566,1658,1684]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="90" pageNumber="91" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aureipennis">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A67C866FF6AF9C9FE3C15EB" box="[199,452,1658,1684]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Melobasis aureipennis</emphasis>
Thomson
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(
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) Th. Type/
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A67C866FC07F9C8FBA315EB" authority="Th." authorityName="Thomson" authorityYear="1879" box="[938,1115,1658,1684]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="90" pageNumber="91" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aureipennis">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A67C866FC07F9C8FBD515EB" box="[938,1069,1659,1684]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">aureipennis</emphasis>
Th.
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Type Ap. 1. 22
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A67C866FAA3F9C8FA6415EB" box="[1294,1436,1659,1684]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">azureipennis</emphasis>
Laf.
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m.s.s./ Ex. Musaeo James Thomson.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A67C866FF6AF972FD4B15A4" bold="true" box="[199,691,1729,1755]" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">
Other specimens examined.
<collectingRegion id="49EA43863A67C866FDB1F972FD5615A4" box="[540,686,1729,1755]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Queensland</collectingRegion>
:
</emphasis>
Bamaga; Ban Ban Range, via Coalstoun Lakes; Biloela; Bowen; Brisbane; Bundaberg,
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N.; Cairns; Carnarvon Range; Coen River, Cook Town; Dawson District; Dawson River; Duaringa; Edungalba; Endeavour River; Gayndah; Gladstone; Glen Aplin; Gordonvale; Greenbank; Hann Tbid,
<geoCoordinate id="EE1AEBA33A67C866FF3AF89DFF1E1437" box="[151,230,1838,1864]" degrees="16.48" direction="south" orientation="latitude" pageId="90" pageNumber="91" precision="555" value="-16.48">16.48S</geoCoordinate>
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; Jandowae; Mareeba; Maryborough; Meringa; Milmerran; Petrie; Port Denison; Rockhampton; Stanthorpe; Townsville; Watalgan Range, 24.45S
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; Westwood; Wide Bay; Yepoon. Specimens in AMSA, ANIC, ASC, BLC, BMNH, BPBM, CLBC, GHNC, IRSNB, MVMA, NMPC, QMA, SAMA, WAMA.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A66C867FF3AF984FE8B1530" bold="true" box="[151,371,1591,1615]" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">FIGURES 184187.</emphasis>
184185 dorsal habitus: Scale bars = 5.0 mm.184.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A66C867FC03F98BFBAF1530" box="[942,1111,1591,1615]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">M. fritzbrechteli</emphasis>
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(holotype J); 185.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A66C867FA2CF98BFEE0150C" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">M. azureipennis</emphasis>
Macleay (Mareeba, Q. ANIC)
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; 186187 head: Scale bars = 1.0 mm.186.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A66C867FC54F9EFFB65150C" box="[1017,1181,1627,1651]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">M. fritzbrechteli</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A269EC0D3A66C867FB0FF9E8FB23150C" box="[1186,1243,1627,1651]" pageId="91" pageNumber="92" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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(holotype J); 187.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A66C867FF3AF933FEC215E8" box="[151,314,1664,1687]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">M. azureipennis</emphasis>
Macleay (Mareeba, Q. ANIC)
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.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A66C867FF6AF95AFEBA147C" bold="true" box="[199,322,1769,1795]" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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; head in ♁ silvery green, green or coppery;
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emerald green or bluish-green, sometimes with the frontoclypeus coppery; pronotum entirely reddish copper; elytra variably blackish-volet, bluish-violet or bluish-green; underside in ♁ emerald green, the abdominal ventrites sometimes extensively violet blue in
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bluish-green or violet blue, ♁ sparsely clothed with short silvery setae over most of the underside, with denser longer pubescence on the prosternum, prosternal process, mesosternum, metaventrite and ventral faces of femora,
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entirely sparsely clothed with short silvery setae.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A61C860FF3AFBF7FE881722" bold="true" box="[151,368,1092,1117]" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">FIGURES 188191.</emphasis>
apical ventrite: 188.
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Macleay
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(J (Mareeba, Q. ANIC); 189.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A61C860FB35FBF6FAC51723" box="[1176,1341,1093,1116]" italics="true" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">M. azureipennis</emphasis>
Macleay
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(♀ Mareeba, Q. ANIC); 190.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A61C860FE64FBDAFD9617FE" box="[457,622,1129,1153]" italics="true" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">M. fritzbrechteli</emphasis>
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(♁ paratype 10 km N.W. Dunmarra Buchanan Highway. BLC); 191.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A61C860FA2CFBDAFEE117DA" italics="true" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">M. fritzbrechteli</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A61C860FEB2FB3EFEA017DA" bold="true" box="[287,344,1165,1189]" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A269EC0D3A61C860FEB2FB3EFEA017DA" box="[287,344,1165,1189]" pageId="92" pageNumber="93" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(♀ paratype 10 km N.W. Dunmarra Buchanan Highway. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A61C860FF6AFB44FC6516DE" blockId="92.[151,1436,1271,2017]" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">
Head (
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): in ♁ contiguously punctate with very small strong round punctures, very densely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence; in
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very densely punctate with weaker punctures, more sparsely clothed with silvery pubescence; clypeal excision very shallow arcuate, with a fairly broad, shiny or reticulate, impunctate border; clypeal peaks poorly developed, obtuse angled; clypeal angles not developed; vertex flat, about half width of head across eyes, when viewed from above; eyes strongly convex.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A61C860FF6AFA18FD7E1696" blockId="92.[151,1436,1271,2017]" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">Antenna: not sexually dimorphic; segment 3 slightly triangularly expanded, segment 4 triangularly expanded, segments 510 with expansion subquadrate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A61C860FF6AFA40FD231452" blockId="92.[151,1436,1271,2017]" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">Pronotum: 1.601.78× as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin moderately bisinuate with a weakly to moderately developed median lobe, with a narrow beaded margin; posterior margin weakly biarcuate; widest at hind angles; lateral margins parallel or weakly rectilinearly converging to midlength, often with a slight sinuation just in front of hind angles, before very weakly almost rectilinearly converging to apical angles; basal angles acute; as wide at base as elytra at base; lateral carina almost straight, about three-quarters to four-fifths complete; punctation in central third, sparse to moderately dense, consisting of tiny round punctures; punctation in lateral two-thirds to three-quarters, very dense, consisting of large, rather weak, shallow, round punctures; spaces between punctures moderately strongly microreticulate; sometimes with an incomplete impunctate median line; glabrous, or with very few, very short silvery setae near the lateral margin.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A61C860FF6AF884FE13140A" blockId="92.[151,1436,1271,2017]" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">Scutellum: quadrate to slightly elongate, almost rectangular, about one-fourteenth to one-seventeenth width of elytra at base; microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A61C861FF6AF8CCFAF5123E" blockId="92.[151,1436,1271,2017]" lastBlockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" lastPageId="93" lastPageNumber="94" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">Elytra: 2.022.16× as long as wide at base; basal margin weakly bisinuate; basal angles well defined slightly acute or right angled, slightly widening from baseal angles over the humeral callosities thence parallel sided to midlength, before narrowing to the apices; lateral margins from midlength and apices serrate, with acute serrations, about 1820 serrations between midlength of elytra and suture, the most apical serration sometimes larger than the others; sutural margins very slightly raised in apical half; punctation mostly arranged in regular longitudinal rows, consisting of small round punctures in inner two-thirds, punctures in lateral third slightly larger and tranversely ovate, sometimes regular longitudinal rows indistinguishable near the lateral margin; interstriae moderately strongly microreticulate and with scattered barely discernible micropunctures, interstriae often slightly costate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFEF8FCAA12F6" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Hypomeron: contiguously punctate with large, extremely shallow ovate punctures, with sparse exceedingly short silvery pubescence, bottom of punctures microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFE20FB951166" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
Prosternum: with a broad bead at the anterior margin; the anterior margin at the same level as the area behind; prosternal process slightly widening distally, almost as wide as long at widest point moderately densely punctate with small round punctures, in ♁ slightly depressed relative to the centre of the prosternum, moderately densely clothed with short to moderately long silvery pubescence, in
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not depressed, glabrous.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFD90FAD71142" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" box="[199,1327,547,573]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Mesanepisternum: mircoreticulate and densely punctate with very small punctures of variable shape.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFDF4FCE711D6" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Central part metaventrite, inner part of metacoxa, central part of abdominal ventrites glabrous, more sparsely and weakly punctate than lateral parts of these structures which are moderately densely punctate with lunate punctures, with sparse very short, inconspicuous silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFD00FDA01046" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
Apical ventrite (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A60C861FE2DFD00FDD911B2" box="[384,545,691,717]" captionStart="FIGURES 188191" captionStartId="92.[151,264,1092,1116]" captionTargetBox="[230,1377,181,1068]" captionTargetId="figure-30@92.[211,1377,181,1069]" captionTargetPageId="92" captionText="FIGURES 188191. apical ventrite: 188. M. azureipennis Macleay (J (Mareeba, Q. ANIC); 189. M. azureipennis Macleay (♀ Mareeba, Q. ANIC); 190. M. fritzbrechteli sp. n. (♁ paratype 10 km N.W. Dunmarra Buchanan Highway. BLC); 191. M. fritzbrechteli sp. n. (♀ paratype 10 km N.W. Dunmarra Buchanan Highway. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043200" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043200/files/figure.png" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Figs 188, 189</figureCitation>
): lunate punctures well separated over the whole surface; excision in ♁ broad, shallow, with the flange produced at the centre has a broadly rounded or almost rectangular lobe, with moderately long, slightly divergent, lateral spines (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A60C861FDE6FD48FD56106A" box="[587,686,763,789]" captionStart="FIGURES 188191" captionStartId="92.[151,264,1092,1116]" captionTargetBox="[230,1377,181,1068]" captionTargetId="figure-30@92.[211,1377,181,1069]" captionTargetPageId="92" captionText="FIGURES 188191. apical ventrite: 188. M. azureipennis Macleay (J (Mareeba, Q. ANIC); 189. M. azureipennis Macleay (♀ Mareeba, Q. ANIC); 190. M. fritzbrechteli sp. n. (♁ paratype 10 km N.W. Dunmarra Buchanan Highway. BLC); 191. M. fritzbrechteli sp. n. (♀ paratype 10 km N.W. Dunmarra Buchanan Highway. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043200" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043200/files/figure.png" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Fig. 188</figureCitation>
);
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narrower, the flange with two spine like projections, the lateral spines slightly longer, slightly divergent
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFCF0FEC61022" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" box="[199,318,835,861]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
(
<figureCitation id="131591E13A60C861FF62FCF0FECA1022" box="[207,306,835,861]" captionStart="FIGURES 188191" captionStartId="92.[151,264,1092,1116]" captionTargetBox="[230,1377,181,1068]" captionTargetId="figure-30@92.[211,1377,181,1069]" captionTargetPageId="92" captionText="FIGURES 188191. apical ventrite: 188. M. azureipennis Macleay (J (Mareeba, Q. ANIC); 189. M. azureipennis Macleay (♀ Mareeba, Q. ANIC); 190. M. fritzbrechteli sp. n. (♁ paratype 10 km N.W. Dunmarra Buchanan Highway. BLC); 191. M. fritzbrechteli sp. n. (♀ paratype 10 km N.W. Dunmarra Buchanan Highway. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043200" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043200/files/figure.png" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Fig. 189</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFCD4FAA710DA" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
Fore tibia: strongly curved, with a slightly developed setal brush on the anterior face in the apical half, with a series of small teeth on the ventral face, in ♁; tibia in
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strongly curved but without teeth on the ventral face.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFC1CFD9B1092" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
Mid tibia: moderately strongly curved, with a series of small teeth on the ventral face in ♁; in
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more weakly curved, without teeth on the ventral face.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFC44FC01176E" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" box="[199,1017,1015,1041]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Tarsal claws appendiculate with a large sharply pointed tooth at the base.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFBA8FCA11702" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A60C861FEE8FBA8FE1C174A" box="[325,484,1051,1077]" captionStart="FIGURES 192195" captionStartId="94.[151,264,1786,1810]" captionTargetBox="[259,1337,183,1759]" captionTargetId="figure-30@94.[249,1337,181,1762]" captionTargetPageId="94" captionText="FIGURES 192195. aedeagus &amp; apex of parameres: 192193. M. azureipennis Macleay (Mareeba, Q. ANIC); 194195. M. fritzbrechteli sp. n. (paratype 10 km N.W. Dunmarra Buchanan Highway. BLC). Scale bars of aedeagus = 1.0 mm; scale bars for apex of parameres = 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043202" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043202/files/figure.png" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Figs 192, 193</figureCitation>
): parameres with lateral margins strongly curved, the apical setae bearing part small, roughly triangular, with a few backwardly directed spine like setae at the base, in addition to the usual long fine setae; median lobe gradally attenuated at apex, the tip truncate.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFB34FE1517DE" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" box="[199,493,1159,1185]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Ovipositor: not examined.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C334DEEF3A60C861FF6AFB19FBC4162A" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFB19FDDF1672" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A60C861FF6AFB19FEAA17BB" bold="true" box="[199,338,1194,1220]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Comments:</emphasis>
The main distinguishing features from
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A60C861FC88FB18FC2617BA" box="[805,990,1195,1221]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">M. fritzbrechteli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B95A51763A60C861FC45FB18FBD417BA" bold="true" box="[1000,1068,1195,1221]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A269EC0D3A60C861FC45FB18FBD417BA" box="[1000,1068,1195,1221]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
, are the unicoloured pronotum, and the form of the flange excision of the apical ventrite in the male, which is produced at the centre as a broadly rounded or almost rectangular lobe.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A60C861FF6AFAA5FBC4162A" blockId="93.[151,1437,151,1365]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A60C861FF6AFAA5FEB3164F" bold="true" box="[199,331,1302,1328]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected from October to April, most records from December to January. Adults collected on
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A60C861FF17FA88FE45162A" box="[186,445,1339,1365]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Triumfetta rhomboidea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A60C861FE5EFA88FD5E162A" box="[499,678,1339,1365]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Grewia latifolia</emphasis>
(Malvaceae)
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. Larval host unknown.
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