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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFBEFFBEFF121667C6564807" bold="true" box="[151,313,1338,1363]" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">Type locality:</emphasis>
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, Moora.
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.
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Wilson Coll
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.; /
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,
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, B. Levey det.;
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:
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(
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ESE of
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, W.A. (
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,
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</materialsCitation>
;
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(
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)
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, 30. ix. 70,
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; 3 unsexed (
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,
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)
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, 8. 10. 36, H. W.
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,
<location id="8E92605DFFBEFFBEFD8D16B2C5C04B52" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03E48790FFBEFFBFFF121793C3BF4B78:8E92605DFFBEFFBEFD8D16B2C5C04B52" box="[520,687,1518,1542]" county="Badjaling" municipality="Blue Rock Quarry" name="On Chlorizana" pageId="60" pageNumber="61" stateProvince="Western Australia">
On
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFBEFFBEFDB416B2C5C04B52" box="[561,687,1518,1542]" italics="true" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">Chlorizana</emphasis>
</location>
[sic
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFBEFFBEFD6216B2C40D4B52" box="[743,866,1518,1542]" italics="true" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">Chorizema</emphasis>
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<collectorName id="26B85350FFBEFFBEFCFC16B3C3EB4B52" box="[889,1156,1518,1542]" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">F. E. Wilson Collection</collectorName>
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, 8. 10. 36
</materialsCitation>
;
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(
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)
<collectingCounty id="62934E0AFFBEFFBEFDAC154EC5B54B7E" box="[553,730,1554,1578]" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">Bluff Knoll Rd.</collectingCounty>
,
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<collectingMunicipality id="6B96ACFCFFBEFFBEFD60154EC4F34B7E" box="[741,924,1554,1578]" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">Stirling Nat. Pk.</collectingMunicipality>
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, 12. x. 70, D. H.
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; 1 unsexed (
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFBEFFBEFAB3154EC2FB4B7E" box="[1334,1428,1554,1578]" country="United Kingdom" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/e7dr-nxad" name="National Museum of Wales" pageId="60" pageNumber="61" type="Museum">NMWC</collectionCode>
)
<collectorName id="26B85350FFBEFFBEFF12156AC6614B1A" box="[151,270,1590,1614]" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">Holt Rock</collectorName>
, 27. 10. 70; 4 unsexed (
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,
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)
<location id="8E92605DFFBEFFBEFD6F156AC4224B1A" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03E48790FFBEFFBFFF121793C3BF4B78:8E92605DFFBEFFBEFD6F156AC4224B1A" box="[746,845,1590,1614]" county="Bluff Knoll Rd." municipality="Stirling Nat. Pk." name="Red Hill" pageId="60" pageNumber="61" stateProvince="Western Australia">Red Hill</location>
, 8. 9. 40, J.
<collectorName id="26B85350FFBEFFBEFC52156BC3764B1A" box="[983,1049,1591,1614]" name="H. W. Brown" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">W. B.</collectorName>
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)
<collectorName id="26B85350FFBEFFBEFA91156AC21B4B1A" box="[1300,1396,1590,1614]" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">Tammin</collectorName>
,
<collectorName id="26B85350FFBEFFBEFA05156AC64A4B26" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">du Boulay Coll</collectorName>
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.;
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFBEFFBEFEB01506C6374B26" box="[309,344,1626,1650]" pageId="60" pageNumber="61" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
(
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, mileage 28, 4. 10. 36,
<collectorName id="26B85350FFBEFFBEFCB81507C4BB4B26" box="[829,980,1627,1650]" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">H. W. Brown</collectorName>
; all with my determination labels
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBEFFBEFF421522C5454BEE" blockId="60.[151,1436,1338,2011]" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">
Other specimens examined.
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<collectingRegion id="4989F864FFBEFFBEFD831523C58D4BC3" box="[518,738,1662,1687]" country="Australia" name="Western Australia" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: Bunbury; Darlington; National Park; Perth; Spencers Brook; material in
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFBEFFBEFF42159AC62E4B8B" bold="true" box="[199,321,1734,1759]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="60" pageNumber="61" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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; entirely golden-green or coppery, except for the apical part of the lateral margin of the elytra and elytral apices, which are reddish-violet or greenish-blue; elytral apices narrowly rounded, the sutural margins slightly divergent at the apex; head and underside clothed with long, sparse, silvery white pubescence.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBEFFBFFF42140AC22A4D87" blockId="60.[151,1436,1338,2011]" lastBlockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" lastPageId="61" lastPageNumber="62" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">Head: densely punctured with small shallow punctures which are ovate on the vertex, becoming round on the clypeus; densely clothed with long outstanding silvery white pubescence, the setae only downcurved near the tip (soiled specimens may have the pubescence flattened); moderately strongly to strongly microreticulate; lower part of vertex sometimes depressed in the centre; clypeal excision very shallow, U- or V-shaped, with a shiny or microreticulate, complete, unpunctured border; clypeal peaks right angled; vertex flat or slightly depressed at the centre, slightly more than half width of heads across eyes when viewed from above; eyes strongly convex.</paragraph>
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Antenna: serrate from segment 410, in
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segment 4 is triangular and 510 more or less quadrate, in
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segments 410 are more or less triangular.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF421274C65F4FF3" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Pronotum: 1.521.66 times as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin strongly bisinuate with a well developed broad median lobe, the unpunctured anterior border broad and well defined at the centre, separated by a well defined groove from the rest of the pronotum; posterior margin moderately strongly biarcuate to bisinuate; widest at or slightly in front of mid-length; lateral margins parallel sided close to the posterior angles, thence weakly divergent to the widest point, then moderately strongly curvilinearly converging to the anterior angles; as wide as or slightly narrower at base than elytra at base; lateral carina almost straight or slightly sinuate, half to twothirds complete; punctation in central half moderately dense to dense, consisting mostly of small round punctures, punctation in lateral half consisting of larger stronger very dense to contiguous round punctures; weakly to moderately strongly microreticulate between the punctures and sometimes with minute pin-prick punctures as well; sometimes with an incomplete unpunctured median line; glabrous or with a few setae confined to the vicinity of the lateral carina.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF4211E8C55F4FBB" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Scutellum: approximately quadrate, more or less shield-shaped; about one-sixteenth width of elytra at base; moderately strongly microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF4211A0C4F74EB8" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Elytra: basal margin moderately strongly biarcuate to bisinuate; slightly widening over the humeral callosities, thence almost parallel sided to somewhat beyond the mid-length, before narrowing to the narrowly rounded apices which are slightly divergent at the suture; lateral margins in the apical third and apices weakly to moderately strongly serrate; sutural margins weakly raised in the apical third to half; moderately densely punctured with small round punctures near the suture becoming progressively larger and denser laterally, often contiguous close to the lateral margin; punctures near the subsutural depression uniformly distributed or rarely with very slight indications of seriate punctation; weakly to moderately strongly microreticulate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF4210ABC3DE495B" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" box="[199,1201,1015,1039]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Proepisternum: contiguously punctured with large shallow ovate setae-bearing punctures.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF421740C5B049CB" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Prosternum: with a narrow, sometimes poorly defined bead at the anterior margin, at the same level as the area behind; prosternal process widening posteriorly, moderately densely to densely punctured with small to moderately large round punctures, usually with a line of partly coalescent punctures close to the lateral margin; moderately densely clothed with long silvery white pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF4217F0C4AE49B3" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Mesoepisternum: strongly microreticulate and with scattered small very weak punctures, and also with a few large shallow setae-bearing punctures near the anterior margin (Fig. 42).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF4217A8C2F7487B" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Apical sternite: with small well separated lunate punctures; excision shallow about 2-4 times as wide as deep, the distal margin of the flange straight and the lateral spines very short, shorter than the depth of the flange in both sexes.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF421660C44C4800" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" box="[199,803,1340,1364]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Tarsal claws: not abruptly widened or toothed at base.</paragraph>
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Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FFBFFFBFFEC01603C6C94823" box="[325,422,1375,1399]" captionStart="FIGURES 179184" captionStartId="101.[151,258,1904,1925]" captionTargetBox="[270,1408,218,1888]" captionTargetId="figure-85@101.[169,1428,191,1888]" captionTargetPageId="101" captionText="FIGURES 179184. Melobasis spp. formosa and propinqua species groups aedeagi: 179. M. amoena sp. n. (paratype, Youanmi, W.A.); 180. M. propinqua depressa ssp. n. (holotype, 48 km E. of Yellowdine, W.A.); 181. M. rectipilosa sp. n. (holotype, Moora, W.A.); 182. M. simulata sp. n. (paratype, Lake Grace, W.A.); 183. M. uniformis Carter (Mills Park, near Geraldton, W.A.); 184. M. purpurilata sp. n. (holotype, Marloo Stn., Wurarga, W.A.). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Fig. 181</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF4216D8C68A48C8" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" box="[199,485,1412,1436]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Ovipositor: not examined</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFFBFFFBFFF4216FBC3BF4B78" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF4216FBC2F848B0" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFBFFFBFFF4216FBC6204894" bold="true" box="[199,335,1447,1472]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" reason="1">Comments.</emphasis>
This species is likely to be mistaken for small individuals of
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFBFFFBFFC6916F5C3184894" box="[1004,1143,1448,1472]" italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">M. cuprifera</emphasis>
(Laporte &amp; Gory)
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, but can be distinguished by the narrowly rounded slightly divergent elytral apices and the very long pubescence on the head.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFBFFFBFFF4216B3C3BF4B78" blockId="61.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFBFFFBFFF4216B3C6254B5C" bold="true" box="[199,330,1519,1544]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults have been mostly collected in September and October, however, there is a single record from March. Adults have been collected from
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFBFFFBFFD1B1548C4764B78" box="[670,793,1556,1580]" italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="62">Chorizema</emphasis>
sp. (Fabaceae)
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. Larval hosts unknown.
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