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Key to the species-groups of Australian
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FF89FF89FD0D13E0C46D4D82" bold="true" box="[648,770,188,214]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Melobasis</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF89FF89FF12125FC56C4C36" blockId="11.[151,1436,258,678]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Because some species-groups are easily keyed, I have thought it better to provide a key to species-groups and separate keys to the species of each group, rather than one very long key to species which I think would increase the chances of misidentification.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF89FF89FF421232C6E04F6E" blockId="11.[151,1436,258,678]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">The variation within species-groups has meant that some species-groups have had to be taken out several times in the key. The species-group key will not necessarily enable non Australian species to be assigned to the speciesgroup to which they are most closely related. I have tried not to use characters of the male genitalia or secondary sexual characters as the only distinguishing characters, however, in a few cases where they are the most reliable characters they are used, and in some cases they are the best way to confirm that a species has been traced to the correct species-group.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FF89FF89FF42111AC3C04FF2" blockId="11.[151,1436,258,678]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">If a species does not unambiguously key to a species-group it may be an undescribed species or possibly a variation of a described species which I have not seen. The habitus images, use of the separate keys to species and examination of the male genitalia, if available, should help to resolve this problem if it arises.</paragraph>
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1 Epipleura of elytra with a small tooth, or strongly and abruptly narrowing opposite the hind coxae (Figs.14,15); lateral carina of pronotum reaching or almost reaching the pleurosternal suture; elytral punctation longitudinally seriate, except sometimes close to the lateral margin; mesoepisternum at least weakly microreticulate, usually without or with very few punctures away from the margins; apices of parameres of aedeagus with fine, long setae only; flange of apical sternite in male not produced at centre.........................................................................
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF89FF89FB131010C24C4E35" box="[1174,1315,844,865]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">paramelobasis</emphasis>
group (part)
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- If epipleura of elytra slightly narrowing opposite the hind coxae (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF89FF89FC071035C4A14E2A" box="[898,974,873,894]" captionStart="FIGURES 6–16" captionStartId="81.[151,258,1879,1900]" captionTargetBox="[282,1292,235,1828]" captionTargetId="figure-120@81.[252,1315,218,1850]" captionTargetPageId="81" captionText="FIGURES 6–16. 6. apical sternite with separate lunate punctures; 7. apical sternite with lunate punctures partly coalescing to form transverse series; 8. apical sternite with lunate punctures coalescing to form semicircular grooves; 9. apical sternite with lunate punctures coalescing to form grooves parallel to the lateral margin 10. ovipositor of M. dividua sp. n.; 11. ovipositor of M. uniformis Carter; 12–13 antenna of M. formosa Carter: 12 female; 13 male; 14–16. epipleura of elytra at level of the hind coxa: 14. epipleura with a small tooth; 15. epipleura abruptly narrowing at level of hind coxa; 16. epipleura gradually narrowing at level of hind coxa." pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Fig. 16</figureCitation>
); then without all the other above mentioned characters combined................................................................................... 2
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2 Scutellum shaped like an oblate semicircle, large, about one-ninth to one-fifth width of elytra at base; pronotum widest at base, more or less trapeziform, the anterior margin not, or scarcely produced at the centre (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF89FF89FBB1109DC3104E82" box="[1076,1151,961,982]" captionStart="FIGURES 17–30" captionStartId="82.[151,257,1887,1908]" captionTargetBox="[194,1379,238,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-131@82.[179,1406,191,1877]" captionTargetPageId="82" captionText="FIGURES 17–30. 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; 22–25 apical sternite: 22. M. dives Carter (♀ holotype); 23–24 M. dividua sp. n.: 23 ♂; 24. ♀; 25. M. thoracica Blackburn ♂; 26–27. prosternal process with line of coalescent punctures: 26. M. flexa sp. n.; 27. M. septemplagiata Carter; 28. pronotum and scutellum of diceropygus species group; 29–30 pronotum and base of elytra: 29. M. thoracica; 30. M. g. gloriosa (Laporte &amp; Gory)." pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Fig. 28</figureCitation>
); mesoepisternum smooth or weakly microreticulate, unpunctured or with a few large, shallow setae-bearing punctures (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF89FF89FBE11082C3C14EA7" box="[1124,1198,990,1011]" captionStart="FIGURES 37–40" captionStartId="84.[151,257,1974,1995]" captionTargetBox="[267,1310,206,1931]" captionTargetId="figure-53@84.[245,1340,191,1951]" captionTargetPageId="84" captionText="FIGURES 37–40. mesoepisternum: 37. densely punctured with large shallow punctures, partly obscured by setae; 38. partly microreticulate; 39. shiny with few punctures.; 40. densely punctured with small variably shaped punctures." pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Fig. 39</figureCitation>
); elytra punctate-striate; apices of parameres of aedeagus with fine, long setae only; flange of apical sternite in male not produced at centre...............................................................................................
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF89FF89FB6C1745C232497A" box="[1257,1373,1049,1070]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">diceropygus</emphasis>
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<keyLead id="30BC95B3FF89FF89FF12176AC2F3493D" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">- If scutellum shaped like an oblate semicircle, then not more than one-tenth width of elytra at base and/or prontum not widest at base................................................................................................ 3</keyLead>
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<keyStep id="30B92E23FF89FF89FF12172DC2F349AF" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">
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3 Each elytron with two or more large, irregular depressions; pronotum with large, well defined, elongate depressions near the lateral margin (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF89FF89FEF917D2C6A849F7" box="[380,455,1166,1187]" captionStart="FIGURES 17–30" captionStartId="82.[151,257,1887,1908]" captionTargetBox="[194,1379,238,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-131@82.[179,1406,191,1877]" captionTargetPageId="82" captionText="FIGURES 17–30. 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; 22–25 apical sternite: 22. M. dives Carter (♀ holotype); 23–24 M. dividua sp. n.: 23 ♂; 24. ♀; 25. M. thoracica Blackburn ♂; 26–27. prosternal process with line of coalescent punctures: 26. M. flexa sp. n.; 27. M. septemplagiata Carter; 28. pronotum and scutellum of diceropygus species group; 29–30 pronotum and base of elytra: 29. M. thoracica; 30. M. g. gloriosa (Laporte &amp; Gory)." pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Fig. 17</figureCitation>
); lateral carina of pronotum straight, meeting the pleurosternal suture anteriorly; mesoepisternum densely punctured with small irregularly shaped punctures (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF89FF89FC9B17F0C40E4995" box="[798,865,1196,1217]" captionStart="FIGURES 37–40" captionStartId="84.[151,257,1974,1995]" captionTargetBox="[267,1310,206,1931]" captionTargetId="figure-53@84.[245,1340,191,1951]" captionTargetPageId="84" captionText="FIGURES 37–40. mesoepisternum: 37. densely punctured with large shallow punctures, partly obscured by setae; 38. partly microreticulate; 39. shiny with few punctures.; 40. densely punctured with small variably shaped punctures." pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Fig.40</figureCitation>
); flange of apical sternite in male not produced at centre..........................................................................................
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF89FF89FA861795C231498A" ID-CoL="3ZLDH" authorityName="Carter" authorityYear="1923" box="[1283,1374,1225,1246]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abnormis">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF89FF89FA861795C231498A" box="[1283,1374,1225,1246]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">abnormis</emphasis>
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<keyLead id="30BC95B3FF89FF89FF1217BAC2F349AF" box="[151,1436,1254,1275]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">- Without the above combination of characters................................................................ 4</keyLead>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF89FF89FF121658C2F34807" blockId="11.[151,1436,726,2038]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">
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4 Frontoclypeal margin strongly angulate lateral to the excision (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF89FF89FCBF1658C4EE484D" box="[826,897,1284,1305]" captionStart="FIGURES 17–30" captionStartId="82.[151,257,1887,1908]" captionTargetBox="[194,1379,238,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-131@82.[179,1406,191,1877]" captionTargetPageId="82" captionText="FIGURES 17–30. 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; 22–25 apical sternite: 22. M. dives Carter (♀ holotype); 23–24 M. dividua sp. n.: 23 ♂; 24. ♀; 25. M. thoracica Blackburn ♂; 26–27. prosternal process with line of coalescent punctures: 26. M. flexa sp. n.; 27. M. septemplagiata Carter; 28. pronotum and scutellum of diceropygus species group; 29–30 pronotum and base of elytra: 29. M. thoracica; 30. M. g. gloriosa (Laporte &amp; Gory)." pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Fig. 19</figureCitation>
); apices of elytra slightly spatulate; elytra internal to the 1st costa weakly, sparsely punctured, strongly, contiguously punctured external to the 1st costa; body navicular (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF89FF89FA93167DC2344862" box="[1302,1371,1313,1334]" captionStart="FIGURES 17–30" captionStartId="82.[151,257,1887,1908]" captionTargetBox="[194,1379,238,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-131@82.[179,1406,191,1877]" captionTargetPageId="82" captionText="FIGURES 17–30. 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; 22–25 apical sternite: 22. M. dives Carter (♀ holotype); 23–24 M. dividua sp. n.: 23 ♂; 24. ♀; 25. M. thoracica Blackburn ♂; 26–27. prosternal process with line of coalescent punctures: 26. M. flexa sp. n.; 27. M. septemplagiata Carter; 28. pronotum and scutellum of diceropygus species group; 29–30 pronotum and base of elytra: 29. M. thoracica; 30. M. g. gloriosa (Laporte &amp; Gory)." pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Fig. 18</figureCitation>
)...........................................................................................
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF89FF89FA851662C2324807" ID-CoL="3ZLJ5" authorityName="Thomson" authorityYear="1879" box="[1280,1373,1342,1363]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nobilitata">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF89FF89FA851662C2324807" box="[1280,1373,1342,1363]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">nobilitata</emphasis>
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group
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF89FF89FF121600C2F34825" blockId="11.[151,1436,726,2038]" box="[151,1436,1372,1393]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">
<keyLead id="30BC95B3FF89FF89FF121600C2F34825" box="[151,1436,1372,1393]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">- Without the above combination of characters................................................................ 5</keyLead>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FF89FF89FF121625C2F348FF" blockId="11.[151,1436,726,2038]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">
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5 Tarsal claws with broad posterior tooth, or strongly appendiculate at base (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF89FF89FC291625C49948DA" box="[940,1014,1401,1422]" captionStart="FIGURES 17–30" captionStartId="82.[151,257,1887,1908]" captionTargetBox="[194,1379,238,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-131@82.[179,1406,191,1877]" captionTargetPageId="82" captionText="FIGURES 17–30. 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; 22–25 apical sternite: 22. M. dives Carter (♀ holotype); 23–24 M. dividua sp. n.: 23 ♂; 24. ♀; 25. M. thoracica Blackburn ♂; 26–27. prosternal process with line of coalescent punctures: 26. M. flexa sp. n.; 27. M. septemplagiata Carter; 28. pronotum and scutellum of diceropygus species group; 29–30 pronotum and base of elytra: 29. M. thoracica; 30. M. g. gloriosa (Laporte &amp; Gory)." pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Fig. 20</figureCitation>
)...................................
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FF89FF89FB6416CAC24D48FF" ID-CoL="3ZLK7" authorityName="Carter Id" authorityYear="1928" box="[1249,1314,1430,1451]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pusilla">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FF89FF89FB6416CAC24D48FF" box="[1249,1314,1430,1451]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">pusilla</emphasis>
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- Tarsal claws not toothed, at most only slightly widened at base (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FF89FF89FCC216E8C4E3489D" box="[839,908,1460,1481]" captionStart="FIGURES 17–30" captionStartId="82.[151,257,1887,1908]" captionTargetBox="[194,1379,238,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-131@82.[179,1406,191,1877]" captionTargetPageId="82" captionText="FIGURES 17–30. 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; 22–25 apical sternite: 22. M. dives Carter (♀ holotype); 23–24 M. dividua sp. n.: 23 ♂; 24. ♀; 25. M. thoracica Blackburn ♂; 26–27. prosternal process with line of coalescent punctures: 26. M. flexa sp. n.; 27. M. septemplagiata Carter; 28. pronotum and scutellum of diceropygus species group; 29–30 pronotum and base of elytra: 29. M. thoracica; 30. M. g. gloriosa (Laporte &amp; Gory)." pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Fig. 21</figureCitation>
)......................................... 6
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6 Lunate punctures at side of apical sternite coalescent, their rims forming ridges more or less parallel to the lateral margin, or more rarely forming concentric semicircular ridges (part of
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13 Elytra reddish-purple to almost black, with a green or golden sutural vitta, short humeral vitta and long lateral vitta (Fig. 47); vertex with obvious pubescence; aedeagus very elongate, the median lobe prolonged at the apex, the parameres with stout setae in addition to the usual fine setae (Figs. 45, 46); N.
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14 Dorsal margin of hind tibia strongly sinuate, with a very dense fringe of setae in the apical half (Fig. 48); mesoepisternum shiny with punctures only at the margin (
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); prosternal process without a line of coalescent punctures near the lateral margin..................................................................................
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15 Clypeus with a deep, narrow excision (
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16 Mesoepisternum shiny with none to many large shallow setae-bearing punctures present (
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, 44)................ 17
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- Mesoepisternum with the surface more or less covered with small variably shaped punctures, sometimes also partly microreticulate (
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, 41, 43)........................................................................ 33
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19 Elytra with the humeral and sutural vittae extending from base about one-quarter length of elytra; elytra with at least one well defined costa and often trace of two more
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20 Aedeagus with only fine long setae on the apical part of the parameres (Fig. 50); elytra without a pre-apical macula.............................................................................................
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21 Mid tibia of male swollen, with a setae-filled depression on the underside (Fig. 49).................
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- Mid tibia of male not swollen, without a setae-filled depression on the underside..................
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22 Prosternum strongly raised for its whole width relative to the beaded anterior margin (viewed from front), sometimes with tubercules at the side (Fig. 53)
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23 Prosternal process with a groove or line of coalescent punctures near the lateral margin at least at the base (
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- Apices of elytra more or less rounded, the most apical tooth not or scarcely larger than those between it and the suture (Fig. 55)...................................................................................
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25 Punctation of lateral quarter of elytra tending to
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26 Elytra blackish-green or blackish-lilac; pronotum blackish-green, blackish-lilac or purple in central half, reddish- to greenishcopper in lateral half; punctation of lower two-thirds of head consisting of very uniformly sized small punctures, the surface between the punctures strongly microgranulate, not shiny (
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- Elytra brownish-bronze, golden or golden-green; pronotum entirely brownish-bronze, golden or golden-green; punctation of lower two-thirds of head consisting of less uniform slightly larger punctures, the surface between the punctures not or only very weakly microgranulate, shiny (
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27 Interstrial punctures in lateral quarter of elytra very tiny, much smaller than those forming the regular longitudinal series (Fig. 57)...............................................................................
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- Interstrial punctures in lateral quarter of elytra about half the size of those forming the regular longitudinal series (Fig. 58)......................................................................................
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<keyLead id="30BC95B3FF8EFF8FFF121493C2F34DF8" lastPageId="13" lastPageNumber="14" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">28 Punctation in lateral quarter of elytra mainly arranged in regular longitudinal series (Figs. 57, 58) or elytral apices broadly rounded (Fig. 55); elytra without well defined costae or costate interstriae........................................ 29</keyLead>
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<keyLead id="30BC95B3FF8FFF8FFF1213E9C2F44DB3" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">- Punctation in lateral quarter of elytra mainly arranged in short transverse series (Fig. 56); elytral apices acute or subacute (Figs. 54, 59); elytra with well defined costae or costate interstriae................................................... 31</keyLead>
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29 Elytral apices broadly rounded (Fig. 55); antero-lateral corner of pronotum with some conspicuous long pubescence.....................................................................................
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30 Most apical tooth of elytra enlarged, larger than the teeth between it and the suture (Fig. 54); elytra unicolourous blackish- or dark brownish-bronze.................................................................
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- Elytra without an enlarged apical tooth; elytra blackish-green or reddish-purple with a coppery red median macula or fascia, which may be small or rarely absent......................................................
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31 Elytral apices acute with an enlarged apical tooth (Fig. 54); lateral margins of pronotum gradually convergent to the apical angles (Fig. 60); excision of apical sternite with the distal margin of the flange straight
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32 Punctures of central quarter of pronotum mostly tiny, pin-prick
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(Fig. 62); lateral margins of pronotum gradually convergent to the apical angles (Fig. 62); excision of apical sternite with the flange not produced at the centre.................................................................................................
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- If punctures in central quarter of pronotum partly pin-prick
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then lateral margins of pronotum more abruptly convergent to the anterior angles and excision of apical sternite in male with the flange produced at the centre.......
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33 Prosternal process with a groove or line of coalescent punctures close to the margin, no punctures reaching the lateral margin (
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<keyLead id="30BC95B3FF8FFF8FFF121029C2F34EDE" box="[151,1436,885,906]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">- Elytra without median and pre-apical maculae or fasciae..................................................... 36</keyLead>
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35 Elytra without humeral maculae or vittae; median fasciae or maculae separated from the lateral margin of the elytra by at least two-thirds its own width...............................................................
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- Elytra with a humeral maculae or vittae, often extending along the basal margin to fuse with the scutellary vitta; median fasciae at most separated from the lateral margin of the elytra by one-quarter its width.....................
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36 Elytral apices acutely angled (Fig. 54).....................................................
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37 Mesoepisternum strongly microreticulate, sometimes with some small punctures over part of the surface (Fig. 41)............................................................................................
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- Mesoepisternum shiny not microreticulate and more or less densely punctured with small variously shaped punctures (
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38 Head clothed with sparse to dense long pubescence.........................................
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39 Elytra usually with the following green, golden-green or blue-green markings: a sutural vitta of variable length, an oblique vitta extending from the base over the humeral callosity, a lateral vitta extending from the base, of variable length; in some specimens the markings are enlarged and coalescent and in extreme cases most of the elytra is green, golden-green or bluegreen; median lobe of aedeagus with an elongate acute apex (Fig. 63)
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40 Apical sternite with a median carina in the apical half, the ridges formed by the coalescent punctures strongly turned in towards the carina, excision in male with the flange produced at the centre (Fig. 69); median lobe of aedeagus with the apex shaped like an arrowhead, the parameres with short stout setae as well as long fine setae (Figs. 65, 66)....................
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41 Distal margin of clypeus with a narrow excision between broad lateral lobes, or with a broad V-shaped excision (Figs. 73, 74, 75, 76)..................................................................................
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42 Distal margin of clypeus almost straight or very shallowly emarginate, sometimes with a small median projection (Figs. 77, 78,), and/or antennal cavities forward facing (Fig. 79, 80).......................................
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- If distal margin of clypeus only shallowly emarginate then not produced at the centre and antennal cavities downward facing (
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43 Apical sternite with the excision largely or entirely filled by the flange, not produced at the centre in the male (
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44 Mesoepisternum densely punctured with small variously shaped punctures, large shallow, setae-bearing punctures absent (
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45 Mesoepisternum not obviously microreticulate, with few to many large, shallow, setae-bearing punctures present (Figs. 44)......................................................................................
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46 Prosternal process almost twice as long as wide at the widest point, parallel sided or at most weakly widening posteriorly (Figs. 70, 71, 147); clypeus broadly shallowly emarginate with rounded or obtusely angled peaks (Fig. 82); scutellum fairly large, about one-twelfth to one-fourteenth the width of elytra at base; excision of apical sternite with a straight flange in both sexes; aedeagus short, the apex of the median lobe simply acute (
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