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,
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,
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,
<figureCitation id="131591E13A7AC87BFE1AFEDCFDE312F6" box="[439,539,367,393]" captionStart="FIGURES 166169" captionStartId="79.[151,264,1778,1802]" captionTargetBox="[300,1288,181,1754]" captionTargetId="figure-16@79.[299,1288,181,1754]" captionTargetPageId="79" captionText="FIGURES 166169. aedeagus &amp; apex of parameres: 166167. M.suturalis Thomson (Hay Point, Mackay, Q. SAMA); 168 169. M. dentata sp. n. (paratype 30 Km W, of Alpha, Q. TMSHC). Scale bars of aedeagus = 1.0 mm; scale bars for apex of parameres = 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043184" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043184/files/figure.png" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">168, 169</figureCitation>
,
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A7AC87BFF3AFE1DFEDA12B9" bold="true" box="[151,290,430,454]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Type locality</emphasis>
:
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, Iron Pot (near Yeppoon).
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A7AC87BFF3AFE47FE211171" bold="true" box="[151,473,500,526]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Type specimens examined.</emphasis>
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♁ (
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on wattle. 21.11.59. E.E.A
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. /
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B.
<bibRefCitation id="EFBFF0953A7AC87BFE64FDAAFDAA114D" author="Levey, B." box="[457,594,536,563]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72" pagination="1 - 107" refId="ref64364" refString="Levey, B. (2012) A revision of the Australian species of the genus Melobasis Laporte &amp; Gory 1837 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Part 1 (introductory material, key to species-groups and keys to species of the thoracica, pusilla, formosa, propinqua and gloriosa species groups). Zootaxa, 3464 (1), 1 - 107. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3464.1.1" type="journal article" year="2012">Levey 2012</bibRefCitation>
.
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as follows:
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(
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,
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, 18.1.45, A.H.
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(
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14.
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58.
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1♁ (
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W. of
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,
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dead standing
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<collectingDate id="EFD4524C3A7AC87BFB49FDD3FA601105" box="[1252,1432,608,634]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72" value="1999-08-28">28 August 1999</collectingDate>
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. emerged
<date id="FF90ABA43A7AC87BFF53FD37FE7A11E1" box="[254,386,644,671]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72" value="2000-01-06">6 Jan. 2000</date>
.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A7AC87BFF6AFD1BFEBA11BD" bold="true" box="[199,322,680,706]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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; ♁ head blackish-green or golden green;
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dull green in upper third, coppery or golden green in lower two-thirds with extensive purple or deep reddish purple reflections; ♁ pronotum golden green with reddish purple reflection in the centre;
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deep reddish purple with some dull green reflections at the centre; scutellum coppery; elytra deep lilac with reddish violet reflections, with the following golden green markings: moderately broad sutural vitta in basal seventh; basal margin narrowly golden green; a slightly oblique, broad, vitta extending from the basal margin over the humeral callosity, along the lateral margin and epipleura to level of the hind coxa, where it gradually narrows, before terminating at about the apical fifth of the elytra; underside ♁ predominantly bright reddish violet but with mesanepisternum, mesepimeron, and anterolateral prolongation of ventrite 1 green;
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entirely bright reddish violet; laterally sparsely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence, central part of the prosternum, prosternal process, mesosternum, central parts of metaventrite and central parts abdominal ventrites glabrous.
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Head (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A7AC87BFEBCFB87FE8B1731" box="[273,371,1076,1102]" captionStart="FIGURES 123129" captionStartId="61.[151,264,1823,1847]" captionTargetBox="[274,1332,181,1788]" captionTargetId="figure-16@61.[256,1332,181,1800]" captionTargetPageId="61" captionText="FIGURES 123129. 123 dorsal habitus M. rufoviolacea sp. n. (holotype ♁). Scale bar = 5.0 mm. 124129 head: 124. M. confundo sp. n. (holotype ♀); 125. M. aurocincta Carter (J 1.5 mls N.W. of Mourangee, Q. BLC); 126. M. imitator sp. n. (J Cape Naturaliste, W.A. TMSHC); 127. M. breviantennatus sp. n. (holotype ♀); 128. M. suturalis Thomson (J Hay Point, Mackay, Q. SAMA); 129. M. dentata sp. n. (holotype ♁). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043172" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043172/files/figure.png" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Fig. 129</figureCitation>
): very densely to contiguously punctate with small, mostly round punctures, punctures stronger and deeper in ♁; ♁ moderately densely clothed with long silvery pubescence,
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very sparsely clothed with silvery pubescence, confined to the lower fifth of the head; spaces between the punctures very weakly microreticulate; clypeal excision shallow, U-shaped, with a barely indicated impunctate border; clypeal peaks obtusely angled; clypeal angles scarcely indicated; vertex flat, about half width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes very strongly convex.
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Antenna: segments 410 expanded, segment 4 with expansion subquadrate (♁) or subtriangular (
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), segments 510 with expansion quadrate, about one and a half times as long as wide, petiolate at base.
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Pronotum: 1.631.75× as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin moderately strongly bisinuate with a slightly to moderately well developed, broad, median lobe, with a narrow entire beaded margin; posterior margin weakly biangulate; widest at basal third; lateral margins weakly diverging from basal angles to widest point, before almost rectilinearly converging (
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), or weakly curvilinearly converging (♁) to apical angles; basal angles slightly acute; as wide at base as elytra at base; lateral carina sharp, well defined,, almost straight, about two-thirds to four-fifths complete; punctation in central half very dense, consisting of transversely oval and elliptical punctures; punctation in lateral half very dense, the punctures slightly oval and round; spaces between punctures weakly to moderately strongly microreticulate; glabrous.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A7AC87BFF6AF9C7FAFF15F1" blockId="71.[151,1437,500,2039]" box="[199,1287,1652,1679]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Scutellum: quadrate, shield shaped, about one-eighteenth width of elytra at base; microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A7AC87BFF6AF92BFB0014F4" blockId="71.[151,1437,500,2039]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Elytra: 1.962.13× as long as wide at base; basal margin moderately strongly biangulate, slightly widening from base over the humeral callosities thence very slightly widening to midlength, before narrowing to the rather broadly rounded apices; lateral margins in apical half, and apices serrate, with acute serrations, the serrations much smaller at the elytral apices; sutural margins moderately strongly raised in apical half; without costae or costate intervals; punctation in inner third mostly sparse, consisting of pin-prick and small round punctures; punctation in outer two-thirds very dense to contiguous, consisting of much larger transversely ovate punctures, partly forming transverse series near the lateral margin; weakly to moderately strongly microreticulate between the punctures.</paragraph>
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Hypomeron: contiguously punctate with large, very shallow, ovate punctures, the bottom of the punctures weakly microreticulate, with fairly short, adpressed, silvery pubescence, inconspicuous in
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.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A7AC874FF6AF86EFD5F13AA" blockId="71.[151,1437,500,2039]" lastBlockId="72.[151,1437,151,969]" lastPageId="72" lastPageNumber="73" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Prosternum: with a broad bead at the anterior margin; the anterior margin at about the same level as the area behind; prosternal process moderately strongly widening distally, almost as wide as long at its widest point, densely punctate, with small ovate punctures, glabrous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A75C874FF6AFF6CFE471262" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,969]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Mesanepisternum: strongly microreticulate, with a few inconspicuous, moderately large, very shallow setae bearing punctures present.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A75C874FF6AFE94FE8B12AE" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,969]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Central part of metaventrite sparsely punctate with small weak mostly pin-prick punctures inner part of metacoxa impunctate, glabrous,; lateral parts of metaventrite and metacoxae contiguously punctate, with fairly large shallow ovate punctures; abdominal ventrites glabrous, and sparsely, to moderately densely, weakly punctate, with small mostly lunate punctures in central-third; laterally with larger, coalescent, lunate punctures, with moderately short silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
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Apical ventrite (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A75C874FED3FE68FDE7128A" box="[382,543,474,501]" captionStart="FIGURES 143150" captionStartId="66.[151,264,1689,1713]" captionTargetBox="[258,1341,181,1665]" captionTargetId="figure-30@66.[246,1342,181,1665]" captionTargetPageId="66" captionText="FIGURES 143150. apical ventrite: 143. M.suturalis Thomson (J Hay Point, Mackay, Q. SAMA); 144. M.suturalis Thomson (♀ Cairns, Q. SAMA); 145. M. dentata sp. n. (holotype J); 146. M. dentata sp. n. (♀ paratype Glencoe, Q. BLC); 147. M. tricolor sp. n. (J paratype Broome, W.A. MVMA); 148. M. tricolor sp. n. (♀ paratype Broome, W.A. BLC); 149. M. adamsi sp. n. (holotype J); 150. M. adamsi sp. n. (♀ Edungalba, Q. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043178" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043178/files/figure.png" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Figs 145, 146</figureCitation>
): contiguously punctate with slightly elongate, lunate punctures over the whole surface; excision in ♁ slightly W shaped, rather deep, with a very poorly developed flange, narrowly, triangularly produced at centre; lateral spines broad and flat (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A75C874FD17FD90FCE41142" box="[698,796,546,573]" captionStart="FIGURES 143150" captionStartId="66.[151,264,1689,1713]" captionTargetBox="[258,1341,181,1665]" captionTargetId="figure-30@66.[246,1342,181,1665]" captionTargetPageId="66" captionText="FIGURES 143150. apical ventrite: 143. M.suturalis Thomson (J Hay Point, Mackay, Q. SAMA); 144. M.suturalis Thomson (♀ Cairns, Q. SAMA); 145. M. dentata sp. n. (holotype J); 146. M. dentata sp. n. (♀ paratype Glencoe, Q. BLC); 147. M. tricolor sp. n. (J paratype Broome, W.A. MVMA); 148. M. tricolor sp. n. (♀ paratype Broome, W.A. BLC); 149. M. adamsi sp. n. (holotype J); 150. M. adamsi sp. n. (♀ Edungalba, Q. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043178" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043178/files/figure.png" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Fig. 145</figureCitation>
);
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narrower, but otherwise similar to ♁ (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A75C874FB5FFD90FAAD1142" box="[1266,1365,547,573]" captionStart="FIGURES 143150" captionStartId="66.[151,264,1689,1713]" captionTargetBox="[258,1341,181,1665]" captionTargetId="figure-30@66.[246,1342,181,1665]" captionTargetPageId="66" captionText="FIGURES 143150. apical ventrite: 143. M.suturalis Thomson (J Hay Point, Mackay, Q. SAMA); 144. M.suturalis Thomson (♀ Cairns, Q. SAMA); 145. M. dentata sp. n. (holotype J); 146. M. dentata sp. n. (♀ paratype Glencoe, Q. BLC); 147. M. tricolor sp. n. (J paratype Broome, W.A. MVMA); 148. M. tricolor sp. n. (♀ paratype Broome, W.A. BLC); 149. M. adamsi sp. n. (holotype J); 150. M. adamsi sp. n. (♀ Edungalba, Q. BLC). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043178" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043178/files/figure.png" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Fig. 146</figureCitation>
).
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Fore tibia: ♁ and
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slightly curved, with a very small setal brush at the apex on the anterior face.
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Mid tibia: ♁ slightly curved, slightly emarginate on the ventral face in distal third, with a series of strong teeth in the emargination (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A75C874FE2DFD3CFE1A11D6" box="[384,482,655,681]" captionStart="FIGURES 196200" captionStartId="95.[151,264,1560,1584]" captionTargetBox="[259,1329,308,1522]" captionTargetId="figure-16@95.[256,1332,181,1537]" captionTargetPageId="95" captionText="FIGURES 196200. 196. mid tibia of ♁ holotype M. dentata sp. n.; 197200 mesanepisternum 197. M. jacquelinae (Lapstone Hill, N.S.W. BLC); 198. M. cupricollis (Nepean Gorge, N.S.W. BLC); 199. M. calama sp. n. (paratype 16km W. of Eungella Dam, Qld. MPC); 200. M. suturalis (Capricorn International Resort, near Yeppoon, Qld. BLC); Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043206" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043206/files/figure.png" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Fig. 196</figureCitation>
);
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almost straight, without an emargination or teeth.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A75C874FF6AFD00FBB2106A" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,969]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A75C874FEE8FD00FE1C11B2" box="[325,484,691,717]" captionStart="FIGURES 166169" captionStartId="79.[151,264,1778,1802]" captionTargetBox="[300,1288,181,1754]" captionTargetId="figure-16@79.[299,1288,181,1754]" captionTargetPageId="79" captionText="FIGURES 166169. aedeagus &amp; apex of parameres: 166167. M.suturalis Thomson (Hay Point, Mackay, Q. SAMA); 168 169. M. dentata sp. n. (paratype 30 Km W, of Alpha, Q. TMSHC). Scale bars of aedeagus = 1.0 mm; scale bars for apex of parameres = 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043184" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043184/files/figure.png" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Figs 168, 169</figureCitation>
): parameres symmetrical, the apical setae bearing part about one-third total length of parameres, with numerous small spine like setae in addition to the usual long fine setae; parameres rather strongly narrowed at the base; median lobe symmetrical at tip, with a truncated triangular tip.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A75C874FF6AFCACFE151046" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,969]" box="[199,493,799,825]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Ovipositor: not examined.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C334DEEF3A75C874FF6AFCF1FE8110FE" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B918D643A75C874FF6AFCF1FE8110FE" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,969]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A75C874FF6AFCF1FEB71023" bold="true" box="[199,335,834,860]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Comments.</emphasis>
This species is most similar to
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A75C874FD05FCF0FC871022" box="[680,895,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">M. breviantennatus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A75C874FC2BFCF0FC3C1022" bold="true" box="[902,964,835,861]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A269EC0D3A75C874FC2BFCF0FC3C1022" box="[902,964,835,861]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A75C874FC55FCF0FADB1022" authority="Thomson. See" authorityName="Thomson. See" box="[1016,1315,835,861]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="suturalis">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A75C874FC55FCF0FB861022" box="[1016,1150,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">M. suturalis</emphasis>
Thomson. See
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comments under those species.
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<subSubSection id="C334DEEF3A75C874FF6AFC38FAC510B6" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8B918D643A75C874FF6AFC38FB1C10DA" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,969]" box="[199,1252,907,933]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A75C874FF6AFC38FEB610DA" bold="true" box="[199,334,907,933]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named for the strong teeth at the apex of the mid tibia of the male.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A75C874FF6AFC1DFAC510B6" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,969]" box="[199,1341,942,969]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A75C874FF6AFC1DFEB310B7" bold="true" box="[199,331,942,968]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected on
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A75C874FD9FFC1CFD7810B6" box="[562,640,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Acacia</emphasis>
spp.
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from November to January. Larval host
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A75C874FBD1FC1CFACE10B6" box="[1148,1334,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Acacia leiocalyx</emphasis>
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.
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