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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF8DFF8DFF121091C6134EB1" box="[151,380,973,997]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Melobasis thoracica</emphasis>
, Blackb.
</taxonomicName>
/
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF8DFF8DFD141091C3084EB2" authority="Blackburn. B. Levey" authorityName="Blackburn. B. Levey" authorityYear="1887" box="[657,1127,973,998]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thoracica">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF8DFF8DFD141091C4194EB1" box="[657,886,973,997]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Melobasis thoracica</emphasis>
Blackburn. B. Levey
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det.1990.
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF8DFF8DFF4210AFC567495E" authority="Kerremans" authorityName="Kerremans" authorityYear="1898" box="[199,520,1011,1035]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitidiventris">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF8DFF8DFF4210AFC6ED495F" box="[199,386,1011,1035]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">M. nitidiventris</emphasis>
Kerremans
</taxonomicName>
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(
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/ Type/
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Starck/ Collection Chevrolat/
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF8DFF8DFF121744C631497B" authority="Kerr." authorityName="Kerremens" authorityYear="1898" box="[151,350,1048,1072]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitidiventris">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF8DFF8DFF121744C6714964" box="[151,286,1048,1072]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">nitidiventris</emphasis>
Kerr.
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Type/
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF8DFF8DFE2E1745C5F7497B" authority="Kerr." authorityName="Kerremens" authorityYear="1898" box="[427,664,1048,1072]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitidiventris">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF8DFF8DFE2E1745C5374964" box="[427,600,1048,1072]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">M. nitidiventris</emphasis>
Kerr.
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/
<bibRefCitation id="EFDC4B77FF8DFF8DFC911744C4BE497B" author="Kerremans, C." box="[788,977,1047,1071]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="49 - 338" refId="ref84495" refString="Kerremans, C. (1903) Coleoptera Serricornia, Fam. Buprestidae. In: P. Wytsman. (Ed.). Genera Insectorum, Fasc. 12 b; 12 c; 12 d. Verteneuil &amp; Desmet, Bruxelles, pp. 49 - 338." type="book chapter" year="1903">Kerremans 1903</bibRefCitation>
-59.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF8DFF8DFF421761C4984861" blockId="15.[151,1436,935,2006]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
Other specimens examined:
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<collectingRegion id="4989F864FF8DFF8DFD921761C5984902" box="[535,759,1085,1110]" country="Australia" name="Western Australia" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: Albany; Lancelin; 16mls. S. of Borden; Kalbarri; Lake Grace; Little Anchorage; mouth of Moore River;
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W. of Hopetown (
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,
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.);
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<collectingRegion id="4989F864FF8DFF8DFB56173EC2FB492F" box="[1235,1428,1122,1147]" country="Australia" name="South Australia" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">South Australia</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: Alligator Gorge National Park; Arkaroo Rock; Athelston; Belair National Park; Bunker Hill, Flinders Chase, Kangaroo Island; Kuitpos Forest.
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF8DFF8DFDA417F1C5ED4992" bold="true" box="[545,642,1197,1222]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
<collectingRegion id="4989F864FF8DFF8DFDA417F1C5ED4992" box="[545,642,1197,1222]" country="Australia" name="Victoria" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Victoria</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: Bendigo; Brisbane Ranges, between Bacchus Marsh and Meredith; Eltham; Emerald; Gippsland; Gisborne; Glen Innes; Hawell; Inglewood; Lakes Entrance; Little Desert; 4.3 mls S.E. of Longford; Melbourne; Nowa Nowa; 5mls N. of Nowa Nowa; 10 mls N.W. of Orbost; Ringwood; Sea Lake; South Morang; Taradale; Toolern Vale; Victor Harbour; Wallan; Wattle Glen.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF8DFF8DFF42161FC317489E" blockId="15.[151,1436,935,2006]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
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<collectingRegion id="4989F864FF8DFF8DFF42161FC6C9480F" box="[199,422,1346,1371]" country="Australia" name="New South Wales" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">New South Wales</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: Armidale; Blue Mountains; Boural; Cocoparra; Cullen Bullen; Falconbridge Ridge; Frenchs Forest; Gordon; Hill End; Hornsby; Jenolan Caves; Leura; Heathcote Rd., near Lucas Heights; 3 mls N. of Repton; Sandy Point, Sydney; National Park, Sydney; North Sydney; Wahroonga; Waterfall; Wedderburn; Mount White.
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF8DFF8DFEBE16EEC6E7489F" bold="true" box="[315,392,1458,1483]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">A.C.T.</emphasis>
: Black Mountain, Canberra.
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<collectingRegion id="4989F864FF8DFF8DFD4A16EEC432489F" box="[719,861,1458,1483]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Queensland</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: Glen Aplin; Stanthorpe.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF8DFF8DFF42168BC51E4B41" blockId="15.[151,1436,935,2006]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
Specimens examined from
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C357650DFF8DFF92FF42157EC5D2487E" lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF8DFF8DFF42157EC2034BA1" blockId="15.[151,1436,935,2006]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF8DFF8DFF42157EC62E4B6F" bold="true" box="[199,321,1570,1595]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length 6.510.0 mm; head largely green or yellow-green in male, with upper part of vertex coppery; head largely dull reddish-violet to dull brownish-copper in female, with upper part of vertex sometimes brown-bronze; pronotum reddish-violet often with coppery reflections, sometimes bluish-green; elytra largely reddish-violet, however, centre sometimes bronze-green or blackish-brown or more rarely blackish-green (E. &amp; S.
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) or yellow-bronze to brown-bronze (S.W.
<collectingCountry id="F35A7616FF8DFF8DFCF115EBC48F4B9B" box="[884,992,1719,1743]" name="Australia" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Australia</collectingCountry>
); underside bright reddish-violet with coppery reflections; glabrous except for very short, fine, very sparse setae on the lateral parts of the underside.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF8DFF92FF42145EC6904DFB" blockId="15.[151,1436,935,2006]" lastBlockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Head: densely punctured with small, shallow, round punctures, often becoming transversely coalescent on the clypeus; vertex sometimes with a poorly defined, large, shallow depression at the centre; glabrous or with sparse, short, very fine setae almost confined to the clypeus; weakly microsculptured; clypeus usually slightly depressed at centre; clypeal excision almost absent or very shallow, U-shaped, with a fairly broad, weakly microreticulate, unpunctured border; lateral margins of clypeus sometimes strongly turned in towards the midline distally, not forming acute angles with the clypeal excision; vertex flat, about half width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes moderately convex.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF4213E2C69C4CBE" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Pronotum: 1.581.71 times as wide at base as long in the midline; anterior margin moderately strongly bisinuate, with a well developed broad median lobe; posterior margin strongly biarcuate; widest at or slightly in front of the mid-length; lateral margins moderately strongly, slightly curvilinearly to almost rectilinearly diverging from posterior angles to widest point then strongly, curvilinearly converging to the anterior angles; slightly narrower at base than elytra at base; lateral carina almost straight, about half complete; punctation at centre consisting of very transverse punctures, forming slightly sinuate transverse series, which are weaker and lunate in the anterior third; laterally, densely punctured with large, shallow punctures, which become deeper and smaller near the lateral carina; moderately strongly microreticulate at centre; usually with a narrow, unpunctured median line in the posterior two-thirds.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF4212A9C55F4F7B" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Scutellum: quadrate or slightly elongate, the posterior margin rounded; about one-tenth width of elytra at base; moderately strongly microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF421166C4764E76" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
Elytra: basal margin strongly biarcuate to biangulate; slightly to moderately strongly widening over the humeral callosities, thence slightly rectilinearly widening to slightly beyond the mid-length, before narrowing to the moderately broad, subangulate apices; lateral margins and apices very weakly, obtusely serrate; sutural margin strongly raised for most of its length; inner half with traces of four very finely punctured striae, the second interstria usually slightly costate; laterally almost uniformly densely to very densely punctured with much larger and stronger punctures with a tendency to
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF92FF92FDF111BBC44B4FAB" box="[628,804,743,767]" form="transverse" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="form">form transverse</taxonomicName>
series; reticulate microsculpture weak on the inner half, becoming stronger on the densely punctured lateral parts.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF421071C5554E33" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Proepisternum: very densely punctured with moderately large very shallow elliptical punctures; pubescence very sparse, short and inconspicuous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF42102FC21A4E9B" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Prosternum: with a narrow bead at the anterior margin at about the same level as the area behind; prosternal process slightly widening posteriorly, sparsely to moderately densely punctured with small round punctures, with a line of slightly larger punctures parallel and close to the lateral margin; sparsely clothed with short pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF421086C3B44EA6" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" box="[199,1243,986,1010]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Mesoepisternum: more or less densely punctured with small round and vermiform punctures.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF4210A1C6F5490E" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
Apical sternite (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF92FF92FEFA10A1C6BA4941" box="[383,469,1021,1045]" captionStart="FIGURES 1730" captionStartId="82.[151,257,1887,1908]" captionTargetBox="[194,1379,238,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-131@82.[179,1406,191,1877]" captionTargetPageId="82" captionText="FIGURES 1730. 17. dorsal habitus of M. abnormis Carter (no locailty); 18. dorsal habitus of M. browni Carter (Burracoppin, W.A.); 19. clypeus of M. browni; 20 appendiculate tarsal claw of pusilla species group; 21 simple tarsal claw; 2225 apical sternite: 22. M. dives Carter (♀ holotype); 2324 M. dividua sp. n.: 23 ♂; 24. ♀; 25. M. thoracica Blackburn ♂; 2627. prosternal process with line of coalescent punctures: 26. M. flexa sp. n.; 27. M. septemplagiata Carter; 28. pronotum and scutellum of diceropygus species group; 2930 pronotum and base of elytra: 29. M. thoracica; 30. M. g. gloriosa (Laporte &amp; Gory)." pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 25</figureCitation>
): with well separated lunate punctures laterally; excision in
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF92FF92FB0910A2C3CE4941" box="[1164,1185,1022,1045]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="male"></specimenCount>
and
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shallow, much wider than deep, the distal margin of the flange straight, the lateral spines short, slightly divergent, not longer than the depth of the flange.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF421739C5F649CB" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
Mid tibia:
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF92FF92FEC6173AC6374929" box="[323,344,1126,1149]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="male"></specimenCount>
straight with small serrations on the ventral face, sometimes only obvious close to the apex;
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFF92FF92FA0C173AC2F14929" box="[1417,1438,1126,1149]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="female"></specimenCount>
straight without serrations on the ventral face.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF4217F6C4434996" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" box="[199,812,1194,1218]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Tarsal claws: not abruptly widening or toothed at base.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF421791C6804853" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF92FF92FEC11791C6C849B1" box="[324,423,1229,1253]" captionStart="FIGURES 156163" captionStartId="98.[151,258,1896,1917]" captionTargetBox="[342,1255,219,1853]" captionTargetId="figure-100@98.[315,1272,191,1884]" captionTargetPageId="98" captionText="FIGURES 156163. Melobasis spp. thoracica and pusilla species groups:156157. ovipositor: 156. M. thoracica Thomson (Little Anchorage, W.A.); 157. M. paucipunctata sp. n. (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 158163. aedeagus: 158. M. thoracica Thomson (Eltham, Victoria); 159. M. duplexicolor sp. n. (paratype Rottnest Island, W.A.); 160. M. inflammabilis Thomson (Carnac Island, W.A.); 161. M. pusilla Carter (Edungalba, Queensland); 162. M. parvula Carter (Millstream, W.A.); 163. M. paucipunctata sp. n. (holotype Wurarga, W.A.). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 158</figureCitation>
): aedeagus strongly widening from the basal piece to its widest point; apex of median lobe produced, with the tip rounded
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF42164EC5D2487E" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" box="[199,701,1298,1322]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
Ovipositor (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF92FF92FECB164EC6DF487E" box="[334,432,1298,1322]" captionStart="FIGURES 156163" captionStartId="98.[151,258,1896,1917]" captionTargetBox="[342,1255,219,1853]" captionTargetId="figure-100@98.[315,1272,191,1884]" captionTargetPageId="98" captionText="FIGURES 156163. Melobasis spp. thoracica and pusilla species groups:156157. ovipositor: 156. M. thoracica Thomson (Little Anchorage, W.A.); 157. M. paucipunctata sp. n. (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 158163. aedeagus: 158. M. thoracica Thomson (Eltham, Victoria); 159. M. duplexicolor sp. n. (paratype Rottnest Island, W.A.); 160. M. inflammabilis Thomson (Carnac Island, W.A.); 161. M. pusilla Carter (Edungalba, Queensland); 162. M. parvula Carter (Millstream, W.A.); 163. M. paucipunctata sp. n. (holotype Wurarga, W.A.). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 156</figureCitation>
): about as long as wide.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C357650DFF92FF92FF421669C62848AE" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF421669C3624824" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FF421669C620481A" bold="true" box="[199,335,1333,1358]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" reason="1">Comments.</emphasis>
In the field might be mistaken for some members of the
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FC491669C32E4819" box="[972,1089,1333,1357]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">obscurella</emphasis>
species-group. The south west Australian
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to be confused with the female of
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FC911605C4A94824" box="[788,966,1368,1392]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">M. duplexicolor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FC4B1604C3624824" bold="true" box="[974,1037,1368,1392]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20A57EFFF92FF92FC4B1604C3624824" box="[974,1037,1368,1392]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF92FF92FF421626C62848AE" blockId="16.[151,1438,151,1530]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FF421626C62548C7" bold="true" box="[199,330,1402,1427]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected between August and December (mainly SeptemberNovember). Adults mainly recorded on
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF92FF92FEA116C1C54348E1" box="[292,556,1437,1461]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FEA116C1C61D48E1" box="[292,370,1437,1461]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Acacia</emphasis>
spp. (Fabaceae)
</taxonomicName>
, with single records on
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF92FF92FCBD16C1C3FB48E1" box="[824,1172,1437,1461]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Casuarinaceae" genus="Casuarina" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fagales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FCBD16C1C4C148E1" box="[824,942,1437,1461]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Casuarina</emphasis>
sp. (Casuarinaceae)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF92FF92FB1A16C1C2F748E1" box="[1183,1432,1437,1461]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Cassia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FB1A16C1C38448E1" box="[1183,1259,1437,1461]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Cassia</emphasis>
sp. (Fabaceae)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF92FF92FF12169CC6F0488C" box="[151,415,1472,1496]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Genista" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="monspessulana">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FF12169CC6F0488C" box="[151,415,1472,1496]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Genista monspessulana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(L.) L.A.S. Johnson (
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),
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF92FF92FC96169CC3574883" box="[787,1080,1471,1496]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Proteaceae" genus="Grevillea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Proteales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FC96169CC413488C" box="[787,892,1472,1496]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Grevillea</emphasis>
sp. (Proteaceae)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF92FF92FBC6169CC2264883" box="[1091,1353,1471,1496]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Proteaceae" genus="Hakea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Proteales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF92FF92FBC6169CC3E3488C" box="[1091,1164,1472,1496]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Hakea</emphasis>
sp. (Proteaceae)
</taxonomicName>
. Larval hosts unknown.
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