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<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B66FF94FF12FB5C05625CF0" box="[159,259,1194,1219]" captionStart="FIGURES 710" captionStartId="7.[151,264,1975,1998]" captionTargetBox="[194,1366,311,1853]" captionTargetId="figure@7.[152,1435,139,1955]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURES 710. Habitus of Cheiloxena species: 7, C. insignis Baly (Launching Place, Victoria); 8, C. insignis (Lake Mountain, Victoria); 9, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson (holotype); 10, C. tuberosa Reid; Not to scale." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456317/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">Figs 7, 8</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B66FF94FE82FB5D054C5CF0" box="[271,301,1195,1219]" captionStart="FIGURES 1321" captionStartId="13.[151,264,1907,1930]" captionTargetBox="[230,1395,232,1777]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[152,1435,141,1956]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURES 1321. Lateral of Cheiloxena species: 13, C. aitori Reid &amp; Beatson, male (holotype); 14, C. blackburni Reid; 15, C. conani Reid &amp; Beatson; 16, C. frenchae Blackburn, (holotype); 17, C. insignis Blackburn; 18, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson (holotype); 19, C. tuberosa Reid; 20, C. westwoodii Baly (northern form, Dorrigo); 21, C. westwoodii Baly (southern form, Victoria). Not to scale." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456321/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">17</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B66FF94FEB4FB5C05365CF0" box="[313,343,1194,1219]" captionStart="FIGURES 3537" captionStartId="16.[151,264,1944,1967]" captionTargetBox="[226,1365,279,1759]" captionTargetId="figure@16.[152,1435,193,1924]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="FIGURES 3537. Cheiloxena species, ventral view: 35, C. insignis Baly, thoracic venter; 36, C. westwoodii Baly (Blundell's Range, ACT), male abdominal ventrites; 37, C. westwoodii (Island Bend, NSW), female abdominal ventrites." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456327/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">35</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B66FF94FEEEFB5D05CA5CF0" box="[355,427,1195,1219]" captionStart="FIGURES 3842" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1957,1980]" captionTargetBox="[281,1374,340,1843]" captionTargetId="figure@17.[152,1435,193,2009]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 3842. Cheiloxena species: 38, C. tuberosa Reid, male antenna; 39, C. insignis Blackburn, male antenna; 40, C. insignis, metafemur; 41, C. tuberosa, pro- (left) and meta- (right) tarsi; 42, C. frenchae Blackburn, apex of tarsus." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456329/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">39, 40</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B66FF94FE3AFB5D05B45CF0" box="[439,469,1195,1219]" captionStart="FIGURES 4351" captionStartId="18.[151,264,1789,1812]" captionTargetId="figure@18.[152,1435,193,1768]" captionTargetPageId="18" captionText="FIGURES 4351. Cheiloxena species, male genitalia lateral and dorsal: 43, C. aitori Reid &amp; Beatson; 44, C. blackburni Reid; 45, C. conani Reid &amp; Beatson; 46, C. frenchae Blackburn; 47, C. insignis Blackburn; 48, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson; 49, C. tuberosa Reid; 50, C. westwoodii Baly (northern form, Dorrigo); 51, C. westwoodii (southern form, Victoria). All images to scale, scale bar = 2mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1457873/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">47</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B66FF94FE6CFB5C064B5CF0" box="[481,554,1194,1219]" captionStart="FIGURES 5261" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1911,1934]" captionTargetBox="[224,1367,255,1760]" captionTargetId="figure@19.[152,1435,131,1947]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 5261. Cheiloxena species, apex of penis: 52, C. aitori Reid &amp; Beatson; 53, C. blackburni Reid; 54, C. conani Reid &amp; Beatson; 55, C. frenchae Blackburn; 56, C. insignis Blackburn (Launching Place, Victoria); 57, C. insignis Blackburn (Lake Mountain, Victoria); 58, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson; 59, C. tuberosa Reid; 60, C. westwoodii Baly (northern form, Dorrigo); 61, C. westwoodii (southern form, Victoria). All images to same scale." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456331/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">56, 57</figureCitation>
,
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,
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,
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locality:
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Non-types (13): Australia: unlocalised: ♀/ Australie par Glason/
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Black.
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/ Museum Paris coll. H. Clavareau 1932/ (MHNP); ♀/
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Baly
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/ ex museo H. W. Bates 1892/ Museum Paris ex coll. R. Oberthur/ (MHNP);
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: ♂/ Mittagong, Nov, C Oke (MVM);
<emphasis id="90F07E726B66FF94FA9CFA8B01105DA5" bold="true" box="[1297,1393,1405,1430]" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">Victoria</emphasis>
: Ƌ, 2♀*/ Victoria French/
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Black.
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/ Museum Paris coll. H. Clavareau 1932/ (MHNP); ♂/ Ferntree Gully,
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, FE Wilson (ANIC); ♂*/ Lake Mountain,
<date id="D63A84A06B66FF94FCB6FA3307C65DED" box="[827,935,1477,1502]" pageId="23" pageNumber="524" value="2016-01-26">26.i.2016</date>
, M Lagerway (AMS); ♀*/ Launching Place
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/
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<emphasis id="90F07E726B66FF94FE86FA1C05E55E32" box="[267,388,1514,1537]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">C. insignis</emphasis>
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f det C. Reid/ (MVM); ♂/ Millgrove
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FE Wilson (ANIC); ♂/ Monbulk
<date id="D63A84A06B66FF94FAB7FA1C01FD5E31" box="[1338,1436,1514,1538]" pageId="23" pageNumber="524" value="1901-10-04">4.x.1901</date>
Jarvis (SAM); ♀/ Monbulk
<date id="D63A84A06B66FF94FE42F9F806505E15" box="[463,561,1550,1574]" pageId="23" pageNumber="524" value="1902-10-07">7.x.1902</date>
Jarvis (SAM); ♂*/ One Tree Gully VIC Ferntree Gully
<date id="D63A84A06B66FF94FB26F9F8017A5E15" box="[1195,1307,1550,1574]" pageId="23" pageNumber="524" value="1979-10-14">14.x.1979</date>
<emphasis id="90F07E726B66FF94FAAFF9F801525E16" box="[1314,1331,1550,1573]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">A</emphasis>
[could be
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or
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!]
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R. Patterson F110/ (ANIC).
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<emphasis id="90F07E726B66FF94FF4AF9A305205E5D" bold="true" box="[199,321,1621,1646]" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="90F07E726B66FF94FEC0F9A306515E5E" box="[333,560,1621,1645]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">Cheiloxena insignis</emphasis>
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is distinguished by: upper and lower surfaces setose, not scaled; anterior margin of clypeus deeply excavate; pronotum without dorsal ridges but with 12 lateral tubercles; apical half of elytra not conspicuously tuberculate; elytral surface with erect setae.
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<subSubSection id="EA9EF1EB6B66FF9BFF4AF937014A5F43" lastPageId="24" lastPageNumber="525" pageId="23" pageNumber="524" type="description">
<paragraph id="A23BA2606B66FF94FF4AF93705635F81" blockId="23.[151,1437,1333,2006]" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">
<emphasis id="90F07E726B66FF94FF4AF93705385EE9" bold="true" box="[199,345,1729,1754]" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">Description.</emphasis>
Length: male
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, female
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; body relatively flat in profile, length about 3.2x height; colour dull to shining black, tibiae, tarsi and maxillary palpi, sometimes antennomeres 811 and apex elytra, dark reddish-brown; with adpressed thick white setae (not scales), sparsely distributed on head, pronotum and venter, in discrete lateral and preapical patches on elytra; surface sculpture extremely variable: head and pronotum shining but often shallowly microreticulate; elytral background sculpture shining to dull, depending on depth of microreticulation, but apices of tubercles always smooth and shining, elytral punctures semi-striate or scattered.
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Head (
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,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B66FF94FE04F84805C65FE5" box="[393,423,1982,2006]" captionStart="FIGURES 1321" captionStartId="13.[151,264,1907,1930]" captionTargetBox="[230,1395,232,1777]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[152,1435,141,1956]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURES 1321. Lateral of Cheiloxena species: 13, C. aitori Reid &amp; Beatson, male (holotype); 14, C. blackburni Reid; 15, C. conani Reid &amp; Beatson; 16, C. frenchae Blackburn, (holotype); 17, C. insignis Blackburn; 18, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson (holotype); 19, C. tuberosa Reid; 20, C. westwoodii Baly (northern form, Dorrigo); 21, C. westwoodii Baly (southern form, Victoria). Not to scale." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456321/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">17</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B66FF94FE38F84B05B25FE5" box="[437,467,1981,2006]" captionStart="FIGURES 3537" captionStartId="16.[151,264,1944,1967]" captionTargetBox="[226,1365,279,1759]" captionTargetId="figure@16.[152,1435,193,1924]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="FIGURES 3537. Cheiloxena species, ventral view: 35, C. insignis Baly, thoracic venter; 36, C. westwoodii Baly (Blundell's Range, ACT), male abdominal ventrites; 37, C. westwoodii (Island Bend, NSW), female abdominal ventrites." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456327/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">35</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B66FF94FE6CF848064F5FE5" box="[481,558,1982,2006]" captionStart="FIGURES 3842" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1957,1980]" captionTargetBox="[281,1374,340,1843]" captionTargetId="figure@17.[152,1435,193,2009]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 3842. Cheiloxena species: 38, C. tuberosa Reid, male antenna; 39, C. insignis Blackburn, male antenna; 40, C. insignis, metafemur; 41, C. tuberosa, pro- (left) and meta- (right) tarsi; 42, C. frenchae Blackburn, apex of tarsus." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456329/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="524">39, 40</figureCitation>
): distinctly narrower than pronotum in both sexes, width 0.9x (male) or 0.8x (female) pronotal width; densely punctured (punctures separated by about 1 diameter); with sparse white hair-like setae, denser at sides; narrow impunctate smooth area around antennal cavities; vertex and frons elevated between eyes, and flat to concave between antennae, without midline groove posteriorly but midline smooth in some specimens; eyes small, elongate-reniform, strongly laterally prominent, separated by 6 eye widths in male, 7 eye widths in female; gena at shortest point about 2/3 eye length in both sexes; genal lobe about 1.3x shortest length gena; antennae 56 socket diameters apart; antennae about 0.6x body length (male), or about 0.5x body length (female); all antennomeres dull, 17 sparsely and coarsely setose, 811 densely and finely setose; antennomeres 1 and 311 elongate, 2 quadrate&gt;0.5x length 1, &lt;0.5x length 3, male antennomeres 37 thicker and more compressed compared with female; relative lengths of antennomeres, with 3 longest in both sexes, and middle segments more unequal in length in female than male: male: 2 shortest, &lt;8=9=10, &lt;1, &lt;4=6=11, &lt;5=7, &lt;3; female: 2 shortest, &lt;8, &lt;9=10, &lt;1, &lt;4=6, &lt;5, &lt;7=11, &lt;3; clypeus with 23 pairs of long subapical setae; clypeal anterior margin semicircularly excavate in male, with shallower V-shaped emargination in females, exposing anteclypeus; male apical maxillary palpomere securiform with broad truncate apex.
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<paragraph id="A23BA2606B69FF9BFF4AFD9A00755E3B" blockId="24.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">
Thorax (
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B69FF9BFEA4FD9A05F25AB7" box="[297,403,620,645]" captionStart="FIGURES 710" captionStartId="7.[151,264,1975,1998]" captionTargetBox="[194,1366,311,1853]" captionTargetId="figure@7.[152,1435,139,1955]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURES 710. Habitus of Cheiloxena species: 7, C. insignis Baly (Launching Place, Victoria); 8, C. insignis (Lake Mountain, Victoria); 9, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson (holotype); 10, C. tuberosa Reid; Not to scale." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456317/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">Figs 7, 8</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B69FF9BFE2FFD9A05A05AB7" box="[418,449,620,644]" captionStart="FIGURES 1321" captionStartId="13.[151,264,1907,1930]" captionTargetBox="[230,1395,232,1777]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[152,1435,141,1956]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURES 1321. Lateral of Cheiloxena species: 13, C. aitori Reid &amp; Beatson, male (holotype); 14, C. blackburni Reid; 15, C. conani Reid &amp; Beatson; 16, C. frenchae Blackburn, (holotype); 17, C. insignis Blackburn; 18, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson (holotype); 19, C. tuberosa Reid; 20, C. westwoodii Baly (northern form, Dorrigo); 21, C. westwoodii Baly (southern form, Victoria). Not to scale." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456321/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">17</figureCitation>
): pronotum clearly transverse, width 1.11.3x length, greatest width at lateral median lobe or also anterior angle, sides contracted and straight behind middle; dorsum of pronotum distinctly demarcated, relatively horizontal compared with almost vertical hypomera; pronotal disc irregularly surfaced, with pair of low shiny swellings either side of middle, midline with similar low shiny swelling near base, sides of disc moderately depressed; pronotal punctures large but shallow, moderately close in depressed areas, where separated by 0.21.5 puncture diameters, sparse elsewhere; pronotum with sparse white hair-like recumbent setae, denser at sides, interspaces shiny, either shallowly microreticulate or without microreticulation; anterior angles prominently anterolaterally produced, 4580°; anterior edge of pronotum slightly produced but usually concave at middle; lateral margins with one prominent median tubercle and a smaller tubercle (sometimes almost absent) between this and anterior angle, with remnant of lateral carina from this second tubercle to anterior angle; basal edge weakly convex and usually flat but with trace of beading medially in some specimens; hypomeron strongly punctured and sparsely pubescent, except hypomeral lobe rugose and glabrous; prosternum finely and densely punctured and pubescent; scutellum finely punctured and setose on basal third, apically shiny and impunctate; recumbent white elytral pubescence mostly sparse, but forming patches at sides of middle and along apical third of suture, this sutural patch laterally expanded anteriorly (approximately T-shaped when elytra combined), elytra also with sparse erect setae; elytral sculpture variable but always with small relatively evenly sized tubercles, although they may coalesce into short elongate ridges; at one extreme of variation, elytra dull and densely microsculptured, with irregularly scattered punctures and small round tubercles, and at the other extreme, elytra shiny, with shallow microsculpture only in depressed areas, punctures partly linear and tubercles forming elongate low ridges; elytral disc distinctly arcuately depressed in basal half posterior to humerus; elytral punctures large and deep, sparsely distributed, separated by 1.54 puncture diameters; discal elytral punctures with two small shining tubercles laterally on rim; elytral apices rounded; epipleuron impunctate and glabrous except line of recumbent white setae along basal margin; mesoventrite punctured as prosternum; metepisternum and metaventrite shiny, not or shallowly microsculptured, sparsely punctured and setose, with smooth impunctate midline; metatibiae with broad lateral longitudinal grooves, defining keels, short and robust and sparsely pubescent; bases of tarsomeres 13 depressed; protarsomeres 13 much broader at base (almost quadrate) in male than female.
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Abdomen (
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B69FF9BFEC8F9E205FD5E1F" box="[325,412,1556,1581]" captionStart="FIGURES 4351" captionStartId="18.[151,264,1789,1812]" captionTargetId="figure@18.[152,1435,193,1768]" captionTargetPageId="18" captionText="FIGURES 4351. Cheiloxena species, male genitalia lateral and dorsal: 43, C. aitori Reid &amp; Beatson; 44, C. blackburni Reid; 45, C. conani Reid &amp; Beatson; 46, C. frenchae Blackburn; 47, C. insignis Blackburn; 48, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson; 49, C. tuberosa Reid; 50, C. westwoodii Baly (northern form, Dorrigo); 51, C. westwoodii (southern form, Victoria). All images to scale, scale bar = 2mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1457873/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">Figs 47</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B69FF9BFE24F9E205905E1E" box="[425,497,1556,1581]" captionStart="FIGURES 5261" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1911,1934]" captionTargetBox="[224,1367,255,1760]" captionTargetId="figure@19.[152,1435,131,1947]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 5261. Cheiloxena species, apex of penis: 52, C. aitori Reid &amp; Beatson; 53, C. blackburni Reid; 54, C. conani Reid &amp; Beatson; 55, C. frenchae Blackburn; 56, C. insignis Blackburn (Launching Place, Victoria); 57, C. insignis Blackburn (Lake Mountain, Victoria); 58, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson; 59, C. tuberosa Reid; 60, C. westwoodii Baly (northern form, Dorrigo); 61, C. westwoodii (southern form, Victoria). All images to same scale." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456331/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">56, 57</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B69FF9BFE73F9E2067D5E1E" box="[510,540,1556,1581]" captionStart="FIGURES 6268" captionStartId="20.[151,264,1947,1970]" captionTargetBox="[222,1410,255,1799]" captionTargetId="figure@20.[152,1435,111,1926]" captionTargetPageId="20" captionText="FIGURES 6268. Cheiloxena species, female genitalia: 62, C. aitori Reid &amp; Beatson; 63, C. blackburni Reid; 64, C. conani Reid &amp; Beatson; 65, C. frenchae Blackburn; 66, C. insignis Blackburn; 67, C. tuberosa Reid; 68, C. westwoodii Baly (northern form, Dorrigo)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456333/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">66</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B69FF9BFDA5F9E206295E1F" box="[552,584,1556,1580]" captionStart="FIGURES 6976" captionStartId="21.[151,264,1871,1894]" captionText="FIGURES 6976. Cheiloxena species, female genitalia, sternite 8: 69, C. aitori Reid &amp; Beatson; 70, C. blackburni Reid; 71, C. conani Reid &amp; Beatson; 72, C. frenchae Blackburn; 73, C. insignis Blackburn; 74, C. tuberosa Reid; 75, C. westwoodii Baly (northern form, Dorrigo); 76, C. westwoodii (southern form, Victoria)." pageId="24" pageNumber="525">73</figureCitation>
): ventrites IV shiny, not or feebly microreticulate; I relatively sparsely but strongly punctured, interspaces much greater than puncture diameters; puncturation of IIV increasingly dense; ventrite V relatively densely and slightly rugosely punctured; ventrites with evenly spaced recumbent white setae, erect setae only present on apical margin of ventrite V; apex of ventrite V convex in both sexes; apex of penis abruptly contracted to mucronate tip in dorsal view, apex thick and short in lateral view; tegminal keel sinuate and shallowly convex in lateral view; female sternite VIII apodeme short and narrow, apical sclerotised area roughly triangular but expanded at sides, wider than long, apex shallowly concave; apex of gonocoxite without conspicuous setae; stylus elongate, length twice width, with median constriction; median ventral sclerite very short; spermatheca falcate, blunt tipped, with simple uncoiled duct.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A23BA2606B69FF9BFF4AF8A1014A5F43" blockId="24.[151,1437,151,2013]" box="[199,1323,1879,1904]" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">
<emphasis id="90F07E726B69FF9BFF4AF8A105705F43" bold="true" box="[199,273,1879,1904]" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">Notes.</emphasis>
The maxillary palpi of
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<emphasis id="90F07E726B69FF9BFD97F8AE06F05F5C" box="[538,657,1880,1903]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">C. insignis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were illustrated by
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Reid (1992;
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)
</bibRefCitation>
under
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<emphasis id="90F07E726B69FF9BFB2FF8AE01455F43" box="[1186,1316,1880,1904]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">C. tuberosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<taxonomicName id="6584D9E36B69FF9BFF4AF88A05C65FA7" authorityName="Blackburn" authorityYear="1896" box="[199,423,1916,1940]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Cheiloxena" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="525" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insignis">
<emphasis id="90F07E726B69FF9BFF4AF88A05C65FA7" box="[199,423,1916,1940]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="525">Cheiloxena insignis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
seems to be endemic to south
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as there is a dense cluster of records in this area (material examined here and records in
<bibRefCitation id="C615DF916B69FF9BFDD5F85606B15F8B" box="[600,720,1952,1977]" pageId="24" pageNumber="525" refId="ref20270" refString="Reid, C. A. M. (1992) Revision of the genus Cheiloxena Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae). Memoirs of the Museum of Fictoria, 53 (1), 101 - 114. https: // doi. org / 10.24199 / j. mmv. 1992.53.04" type="journal article">Reid 1992</bibRefCitation>
;
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). However, there is a single specimen from Mittagong, central
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New South
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</collectingRegion>
in the MVM collection (
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). It is a typical specimen of the dull and microsculptured form of
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. We think this is likely to be a mislabelled specimen, as all other material is from tall eucalypt forest within
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of Melbourne (
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). Within this small area,
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shows great variation in surface sculpture and it has been tempting to split this taxon into two species. Two morphological extremes are shown in
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B68FF9AFE11FEF2062F592F" box="[412,590,260,285]" captionStart="FIGURES 710" captionStartId="7.[151,264,1975,1998]" captionTargetBox="[194,1366,311,1853]" captionTargetId="figure@7.[152,1435,139,1955]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURES 710. Habitus of Cheiloxena species: 7, C. insignis Baly (Launching Place, Victoria); 8, C. insignis (Lake Mountain, Victoria); 9, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson (holotype); 10, C. tuberosa Reid; Not to scale." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456317/files/figure.png" pageId="25" pageNumber="526">Figures 7 and 8</figureCitation>
, but note that the first is a fresh female specimen and the second is a worn male. Relatively dull specimens with non-linear elytral punctures predominate in the southern, lowland part of the range (
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B68FF9AFF68FEBA054A5957" box="[229,299,332,357]" captionStart="FIGURES 710" captionStartId="7.[151,264,1975,1998]" captionTargetBox="[194,1366,311,1853]" captionTargetId="figure@7.[152,1435,139,1955]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURES 710. Habitus of Cheiloxena species: 7, C. insignis Baly (Launching Place, Victoria); 8, C. insignis (Lake Mountain, Victoria); 9, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson (holotype); 10, C. tuberosa Reid; Not to scale." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456317/files/figure.png" pageId="25" pageNumber="526">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
; Launching Place, at
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elevation), but
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is of a shiny specimen with partly linear elytral punctures and ridged intervals, collected at Lake Mountain, the northernmost part of the range,
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northeast of Launching Place and at
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elevation (photographed live:
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). This male has a less mucronate penis (
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) than a male of the dull form (
<figureCitation id="3ABFBEE56B68FF9AFD27FE41076059E3" box="[682,769,439,464]" captionStart="FIGURES 5261" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1911,1934]" captionTargetBox="[224,1367,255,1760]" captionTargetId="figure@19.[152,1435,131,1947]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 5261. Cheiloxena species, apex of penis: 52, C. aitori Reid &amp; Beatson; 53, C. blackburni Reid; 54, C. conani Reid &amp; Beatson; 55, C. frenchae Blackburn; 56, C. insignis Blackburn (Launching Place, Victoria); 57, C. insignis Blackburn (Lake Mountain, Victoria); 58, C. monga Reid &amp; Beatson; 59, C. tuberosa Reid; 60, C. westwoodii Baly (northern form, Dorrigo); 61, C. westwoodii (southern form, Victoria). All images to same scale." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1456331/files/figure.png" pageId="25" pageNumber="526">Fig. 56</figureCitation>
). There are morphological intermediates between the two forms, for example a specimen photographed near Launching Place (Lagerway 2016b), therefore we prefer to treat this as one variable species. Another live specimen has been photographed at Wonga Park,
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(
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).
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<paragraph id="A23BA2606B68FF9AFF4AFDB105D65AB6" blockId="25.[151,1437,151,645]" pageId="25" pageNumber="526">Despite being relatively frequently collected or observed in the Melbourne area, the host plants and biology of this species are unknown.</paragraph>
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