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(
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,
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,
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,
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locality
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,
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A71C870FF3AFEF2FE201225" bold="true" box="[151,472,320,347]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Type specimens examined.</emphasis>
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♁ (
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) Cape Naturalise [Cape Naturaliste], W.A. T.M.S. Hanlon,
<date id="FF90ABA43A71C870FA2DFEF3FEB71201" pageId="76" pageNumber="77" value="2006-12-25">25 December 2006</date>
,
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[probably
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T.M.S. Hanlon
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pers. comm.]/
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A71C870FA84FED7FF0912DD" italics="true" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Melobasis imitator</emphasis>
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B.
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.
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as follows: 1♁,
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(
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,
<collectionCode id="ED3F15A13A71C870FC12FE3AFC0F12DC" box="[959,1015,393,419]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">BLC</collectionCode>
) same data as
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;
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(
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) Pt. Peron, W.A. wattle, 5.xii.54, Ex. coll. S. Barker.
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(
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) Monument Hill, W.A.
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A71C870FBC2FE1EFAC712B9" box="[1135,1343,428,455]" italics="true" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Acacia rostellifera</emphasis>
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, 7.ii.71,
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, S. Barker.
<specimenCount id="9D2846ED3A71C870FE9EFE62FEAE1294" box="[307,342,465,491]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
(
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) Mandurah, W.A.
<date id="FF90ABA43A71C870FDDFFE63FD281294" box="[626,720,464,491]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77" value="1955-01-02">2.i.1955</date>
, ex. coll. J.A.L. Wats [Watson), University of Westn.
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. 3♁,
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(
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)
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S. of Leeman, W.A.
<date id="FF90ABA43A71C870FD31FE46FCCF1170" box="[668,823,501,527]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77" value="2018-12-30">30 Dec. 2018</date>
, T.M.S. Hanlon, on
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. 2♁ (
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) Cape Naturaliste W.A.
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, T.M.S. Hanlon, on
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.
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General diagnosis: length
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; ♁ entirely golden green;
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upperside and underside brownish to greenish bronze, anterior face of fore femora and tibia, and all tarsi green; head and underside laterally clothed with moderately long inconspicuous silvery pubescence.
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Head (
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): contiguously punctate with small, strong, mostly round punctures in ♁, very densely punctate with slightly weaker punctures in
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; ♁ moderately densely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence, in
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sparsely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence, mostly confined to the lower half of the head; spaces between the punctures weakly microreticulate; clypeal excision moderately deep, arcuate, with a microreticulate, impunctate border; clypeal peaks obtusely angled, or rounded; clypeal angles not developed; vertex flat, about half width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes strongly convex.
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Antenna: segments 410 expanded, segment 4 with expansion quadrate (♁) or subquadrate (
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), segments 510 with expansion quadrate, about one and a half times to twice as long as wide in ♁, petiolate at base, in
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segments less elongate and less petiolate.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A71C870FF6AFC5EFD541635" blockId="76.[151,1437,320,2039]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Pronotum: 1.541.64× as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin moderately strongly bisinuate with a slightly produced, broad, median lobe, with a narrow entire beaded margin; posterior margin moderately strongly biarcuate; widest between basal third and midlength; lateral margins weakly rectilinearly diverging from basal angles to widest point, sometimes with a slight sinuation in the middle, before weakly curvilinearly converging to apical angles; basal angles slightly obtuse; as wide at base as elytra at base; lateral carina sharp, well defined, slightly curved, about two-thirds to three-quarters complete; punctation in central sixth dense, consisting of transversely oval punctures; punctation lateral to this area very dense to contiguous, consisting of transversely elliptical punctures, forming transverse series, the punctures becoming ovate and round in lateral quarter, not forming transverse series; spaces between punctures weakly to moderately strongly microreticulate; glabrous or with sparse, moderately long setae near the lateral margin at the apical angle.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A71C870FF6AFAE7FB031611" blockId="76.[151,1437,320,2039]" box="[199,1275,1364,1391]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Scutellum: quadrate, shield shaped, about one-twentieth width of elytra at base; microreticulate.</paragraph>
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Elytra: 2.322.40× as long as wide at base; basal margin moderately strongly biangulate, slightly widening from base over the humeral callosities thence parallel sided, to very slightly widening to midlength, before narrowing to the moderately broad, slightly angulate apices; lateral margins in apical half with medium sized, acute serrations, the serrations slightly smaller between extreme apex and sutural margin; sutural margins strongly raised in apical half; each elytron with three slightly raised costate intervals, the 3rd sometimes barely visible; punctation between suture and 1st costate interval very sparse, consisting of pin prick punctures, sometimes scarcely distinguishable amongst the strong microreticulate sculpture; punctation between 1
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and 2
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costate intervals moderately dense, consisting of small ovate punctures; punctation lateral to 2
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costate interval dense to contiguous, consisting of transversely elliptical punctures, forming transverse series near the lateral margin; strongly to very strongly microreticulate between the punctures.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A71C870FF6AF952FC5D1461" blockId="76.[151,1437,320,2039]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Hypomeron: contiguously punctate with very shallow, ovate punctures, the bottom of the punctures weakly microreticulate, with moderately long, adpressed, silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A71C870FF62F89AFA6B14F5" blockId="76.[151,1437,320,2039]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">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, sparsely punctate at centre with small round punctures, punctures towards lateral margins larger and more dense; glabrous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A71C870FF6AF827FE4714AC" blockId="76.[151,1437,320,2039]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Mesanepisternum: strongly microreticulate, with some scarcely distinguishable, large shallow round setae bearing punctures present.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A71C871FF6AF86FFBCF1262" blockId="76.[151,1437,320,2039]" lastBlockId="77.[151,1436,151,897]" lastPageId="77" lastPageNumber="78" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Central part of metaventrite and inner part of metacoxa very sparsely punctate with small weak mostly pin-prick punctures, glabrous; lateral parts of metaventrite and metacoxae contiguously punctate, with fairly large shallow round and ovate punctures, sparsely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence; abdominal ventrites glabrous at centre, with sparse, short silvery pubescence laterally; sparsely, weakly punctate, with small mostly lunate punctures in central-third, laterally with larger, coalescent, lunate punctures.</paragraph>
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Apical ventrite (
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): very densely to contiguously punctate with slightly elongate, lunate punctures in lateral two-thirds, densely punctured with smaller lunate punctures in central third; excision in ♁ wide, slightly W shaped, rather deep, with a narrow flange, triangularly produced at centre; lateral spines long, slightly divergent (
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);
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narrower, U shaped, without a visible flange, or with a slightly developed flange, triangularly produced at centre; lateral spines long, slightly divergent (
<figureCitation id="131591E13A70C871FD1EFE04FCEC12AE" box="[691,788,439,465]" captionStart="FIGURES 136142" captionStartId="65.[151,264,1803,1827]" captionTargetBox="[215,1369,181,1758]" captionTargetId="figure-16@65.[215,1372,181,1780]" captionTargetPageId="65" captionText="FIGURES 136142. 136 head M. rufoviolacea sp. n. (holotype ♁). 137142 apical ventrite: 137. M. confundo sp. n. (holotype ♀); 138. M. aurocincta Carter (J 1.5 mls N.W. of Mourangee, Q. BLC); 139. M. aurocincta Carter (♀ Mourangee Station, Q. TMSHC); 140. M. imitator sp. n. (J Cape Naturaliste, W.A. TMSHC); 141. M. imitator sp. n. (♀ paratype Port Peron, W.A. SAMA); 142. M. breviantennatus sp. n. (holotype ♀). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8043176" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8043176/files/figure.png" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Fig. 141</figureCitation>
).
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Fore tibia: ♁ slightly curved, with a setal brush at the apex on the anterior face;
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almost straight, with a less developed setal brush.
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Mid tibia: ♁ slightly curved, without teeth on the ventral face;
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almost straight, without teeth.
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Aedeagus (
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): apical setae bearing part of the parameres with very small spine-like setae, in addition to the usual long fine setae; apex of median lobe asymmetrical.
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<paragraph id="8B918D643A70C871FF6AFD3CFCD211D6" blockId="77.[151,1436,151,897]" box="[199,810,655,681]" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Ovipositor: about 3.0x as long as wide at widest point.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C334DEEF3A70C871FF6AFD01FEB81046" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B918D643A70C871FF6AFD01FEB81046" blockId="77.[151,1436,151,897]" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A70C871FF6AFD01FEB711B3" bold="true" box="[199,335,690,716]" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Comments.</emphasis>
This species is not likely to be mistaken for any other species in the species group, and is the only species of the group known from S.W.
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. Due to its similar size and colour, in the field, the female is likely to be mistaken for
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A70C871FEC7FD48FDE5106A" box="[362,541,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. duplexicolor</emphasis>
Levey
</taxonomicName>
(
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A70C871FDD7FD48FCF3106A" box="[634,779,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. thoracica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species group) which also occurs on
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A70C871FB02FD48FA87106A" box="[1199,1407,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Acacia rostellifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in S.W.
<collectingCountry id="F339CDF43A70C871FF7FFCACFEC41046" box="[210,316,799,825]" name="Australia" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Australia</collectingCountry>
.
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<subSubSection id="C334DEEF3A70C871FF6AFCF0FABB10FE" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="B95A51763A70C871FF6AFCF0FEB61022" bold="true" box="[199,334,835,861]" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named for its superficial similarity to
<emphasis id="B95A51763A70C871FC0BFCF0FBA51022" box="[934,1117,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A70C871FC0BFCF0FBA11022" authorityName="Levey" authorityYear="2012" box="[934,1113,835,861]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="duplexicolor">M. duplexicolor</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B918D643A70C871FF6AFCD5FABB10FE" blockId="77.[151,1436,151,897]" box="[199,1347,870,897]" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A70C871FF6AFCD5FEB310FF" bold="true" box="[199,331,870,896]" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults collected on
<taxonomicName id="4C2EF6E73A70C871FD9CFCD4FCF910FE" box="[561,769,871,897]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="rostellifera">
<emphasis id="B95A51763A70C871FD9CFCD4FCF910FE" box="[561,769,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Acacia rostellifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from December to February. Larval host unknown.
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