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// 29-1-92/ Golding Powell.
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,
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&amp;
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,
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on
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leaves.
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of Kalgoorlie,
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,
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on
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sp.
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leaves.
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(
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) Canegrass,
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,
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on
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E. of
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,
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,
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on
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leaves.
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<collectingRegion id="4989F864FF9CFF9CFBC116DEC3C648CF" box="[1092,1193,1410,1435]" country="Australia" name="Victoria" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Victoria</collectingRegion>
:
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(
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), 210/
<collectorName id="26B85350FF9CFF9CFF1216FAC67748EA" box="[151,280,1446,1470]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">G.G. Burns</collectorName>
, 36 kms. N.N.W. of Manangatang,
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. VIC.
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:
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(?) (
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),
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W of Euabalong West
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, NSW, -33 03 21.00, 146 19 46.00,
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,
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on
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sp.
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,
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,
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFF9CFF9DFF4216B2C5E348EB" lastPageId="31" lastPageNumber="32" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" type="diagnosis">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9CFF9CFF4216B2C62E4B53" bold="true" box="[199,321,1518,1543]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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; head and pronotum brownish-, greenish- or blackishbronze; elytra deep lilac, deep reddish-purple, pinkish- or brownish-copper, with the following coppery, goldengreen or green markings: a sutural vitta in the basal quarter, sometimes extending along the basal margin, and the basal half of the epipleura; a humeral vitta of the same length or slightly shorter, which may extend narrowly along the basal margin and the lateral margin opposite the humeral callosity; a sinuate median fascia; a roughly obovate pre-apical macula, which sometimes extends basally to nearly fuse with the median fascia; underside brownish- or greenish-bronze; lateral parts of underside densely clothed with fairly long silvery pubescence.
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Head: upper third of vertex moderately densely punctured with small round punctures; remainder of head very densely punctured with ovate punctures which largely coalesce to
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linear series orientated dorsoventrally on the lower half of the vertex and the frontoclypeus; moderately densely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence; unpunctured areas shiny to weakly microretriculate, however, sometimes strongly microreticulate on the frontoclypeus; clypeal excision fairly deep, U-shaped, with an unpunctured strongly microreticulate border; clypeal peaks acutely angled; vertex flat, about half to slightly more than half width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes moderately convex.
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Antenna: serrate from segment 410, the segments becoming progressively smaller and slightly less elongate, the expanded part of each segment more or less quadrate in
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, in
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segment 4, 5 and sometimes 6 more or less triangular, the rest slightly more quadrate.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF421258C5AB4F0B" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Pronotum: 1.621.74 times as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin weakly bisinuate, with a slightly developed broad often strongly truncated median lobe (sometimes the median lobe is not developed, and the anterior margin between the eyes is straight); posterior margin bisinuate; widest at posterior angles or at least as wide at posterior angles as at mid-length; lateral margins almost parallel or slightly convergent to mid-length, (sometimes slightly sinuate in front of the posterior angles), thence weakly to moderately strongly curvilinearly converging to the anterior angles; as wide as, to markedly narrower at base than elytra at base; lateral carina almost straight or slightly sinuate, about half to four-fifths complete; punctation moderately dense in central fifth, consisting of small round punctures, which become progressively larger and denser towards the lateral margin; with a complete or incomplete unpunctured midline; shiny or weakly microreticulate; moderately densely clothed with fairly long silvery pubescence in lateral half.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF421130C7BF4FF3" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Scutellum: shield-shaped or slightly transverse quadrate, about one-eleventh to one-twelfth width of elytra at base.</paragraph>
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Elytra: 1.962.19 times as long as wide at the base; basal margin moderately strongly bisinuate to biarcuate; parallel sided or very slightly widening from base over the humeral callosities, thence almost parallel sided to the mid-length, before narrowing to the broadly rounded apices; lateral margins from just beyond mid-length and apices with coarse acute serrations, those at the apices being slightly smaller; sutural margin slightly raised in apical half; rather uniformly punctured but with traces of one or two costate intervals in the inner half; internal of the first costate interval, moderately densely punctured with very small round punctures; external to the first costate interval the punctures become larger and dense, to very dense near the lateral margin, where they become ovate and
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transverse series; moderately strongly microreticulate.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF421088C69D495B" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Proepisternum: very densely punctured with moderately large, shallow, lunate punctures, partly obscured by dense long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF421740C4F14928" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Prosternum: without a well defined bead at the anterior margin, the anterior margin at almost the same level as the area behind; prosternal process moderately strongly widening distally, sparsely punctured with small punctures, with a few slightly larger punctures near the lateral margin; glabrous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF4217DBC6A14990" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Mesoepisternum: densely punctured, with moderately large, shallow, semi-lunate punctures; mostly obscured by long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
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Apical sternite: with the lunate punctures coalescent, their rims forming ridges more or less parallel to the lateral margin over most of the surface, but turned in towards the midline distally; in
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excision deep, slightly wider than deep; distal margin of the flange straight, the spines strongly developed, slightly shorter or as long as the width of the flange (
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); in
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excision is slightly less wide and the spines slightly shorter (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF421603C4F64823" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" box="[199,921,1375,1399]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Tarsal claws: slightly widened at base, but without a basal tooth.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF4216D8C6DC48C8" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" box="[199,435,1412,1436]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">
Aedeagus (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF4216FBC5E348EB" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" box="[199,652,1447,1471]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Ovipositor: short, about as wide as long.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFF9DFF9DFF421697C58A4B78" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF421697C58A4B78" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9DFF9DFF421697C62048B0" bold="true" box="[199,335,1483,1508]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" reason="1">Comments.</emphasis>
This species is very similar to
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9DFF9DFD281691C47948B0" box="[685,790,1484,1508]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">M. brevis</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20A57EFFF9DFF9DFC981690C43248B0" box="[797,861,1484,1508]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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The lack of distinct elytral markings and the slight difference in the form of the aedeagus in
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9DFF9DFDE416ADC5A74B5C" box="[609,712,1520,1544]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">M. brevis</emphasis>
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being the only significant differences I have found. It is possible they are only variations of one very variable species.
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFF9DFF9DFF421564C6684BC3" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF421564C4E54B1B" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" box="[199,906,1591,1616]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9DFF9DFF421564C6214B04" bold="true" box="[199,334,1592,1616]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" reason="1">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named after the late Gordon Burns.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF9DFF9DFF421507C6684BC3" blockId="31.[151,1436,151,1687]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9DFF9DFF421507C6254B20" bold="true" box="[199,330,1627,1652]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected in January and February. Adults found on
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9DFF9DFC691500C3554B20" box="[1004,1082,1628,1652]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Acacia</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF9DFF9DFBF41500C3DA4B20" box="[1137,1205,1628,1652]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Senna</emphasis>
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leaves. Larval hosts unknown.
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