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, Southern Cross.
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Carter Id.
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by
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det.
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Other specimens examined.
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: Cue; Cunderdin; Dedari; Geraldton; Lake Grace; Southern Cross; Spencers Brook; Swan River; Marloo Stn., Wurarga;
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: Quorn;
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</emphasis>
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: Mackay (undoubtedly wrongly labelled). Specimens examined from
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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.
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</paragraph>
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I have examined a series of
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(
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,
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) from
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S. of Cobar, N.S.W.,
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<date id="FFF31046FFA7FFA7FB0A17BEC27D49AE" box="[1167,1298,1250,1274]" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" value="2005-01-09">9 Jan. 2005</date>
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, on fine leaf
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA7FFA7FF12165AC78A484A" box="[151,229,1286,1310]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA7FFA7FF12165AC78A484A" box="[151,229,1286,1310]" italics="true" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">Acacia</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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collected by Mark Hanlon that differ slightly in colour and markings from other
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA7FFA7FB3B165BC22A484A" authorityName="Carter B. Levey" authorityYear="1923" box="[1214,1349,1286,1310]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="formosa">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA7FFA7FB3B165BC22A484A" box="[1214,1349,1286,1310]" italics="true" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">M. formosa</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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I have examined, and are from well outside the known distribution of the species. However, the aedeagus, the punctation and the shape of the apical sternite fall within the range of variation seen in
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA7FFA7FC701613C3184832" authorityName="Carter B. Levey" authorityYear="1923" box="[1013,1143,1358,1382]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="formosa">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA7FFA7FC701613C3184832" box="[1013,1143,1358,1382]" italics="true" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">M. formosa</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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from W.
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<collectingCountry id="F35A7616FFA7FFA7FB611612C2214832" box="[1252,1358,1358,1382]" name="Australia" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">Australia</collectingCountry>
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. These specimens may be representatives of a taxon deserving subspecific status, however, without further material from other localities, I do not think it is possible to decide if they represent a well defined subspecies or are just part of clinal variation in
|
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA7FFA7FEE616E7C68A4887" authorityName="Carter B. Levey" authorityYear="1923" box="[355,485,1467,1491]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="formosa">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA7FFA7FEE616E7C68A4887" box="[355,485,1467,1491]" italics="true" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">M. formosa</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
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||
.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFFA7FFA4FF421682C68248C8" lastPageId="38" lastPageNumber="39" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA7FFA7FF421682C61C4BA6" blockId="37.[151,1437,998,2031]" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA7FFA7FF421682C62E48A3" bold="true" box="[199,321,1502,1527]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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||
General diagnosis: length
|
||
<quantity id="4CB59B63FFA7FFA7FD001682C44A48A2" box="[645,805,1502,1526]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.0" metricValueMax="1.1199999999999999" metricValueMin="0.88" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" unit="mm" value="10.0" valueMax="11.2" valueMin="8.8">8.8–11.2 mm</quantity>
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||
.; head and pronotum usually brownish-, greenish- or blackish-bronze, rarely greenish-blue; elytra usually deep purple or deep-reddish purple, rarely brownish-copper, with the following coppery, golden-green or green markings: a sutural vitta in the basal quarter (sometimes absent); a slightly shorter humeral vitta (sometimes reduced or absent), which may extend narrowly along the basal margin to the epipleura; a sinuate transverse fascia, which is sometimes reduced to a roughly ovate macula; a roughly obovate pre-apical macula (sometimes reduced or absent); underside brownish- or greenish-bronze, sometimes with reddish-purple or coppery reflections; lateral parts of underside moderately densely clothed with fairly long silvery pubescence.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA7FFA7FF4215A2C35F4ABA" blockId="37.[151,1437,998,2031]" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">
|
||
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
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA7FFA7FC30147EC35F4A6E" box="[949,1072,1826,1850]" form="short" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" rank="form">form short</taxonomicName>
|
||
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 or very weakly microretriculate; clypeal excision fairly deep, Ushaped, with an unpunctured shiny to weakly microreticulate border which is often confined to the middle of the excision; clypeal peaks slightly acutely angled; vertex flat to very slightly convex, about half to slightly more than half width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes moderately convex.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF4213CBC50E4DA3" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
|
||
Antenna: serrate from segment 4–10, the segments becoming progressively smaller and slightly less elongate, the expanded part of each segment more or less quadrate in
|
||
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFA4FFA4FCC913E0C40E4D87" box="[844,865,188,211]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" type="male">♂</specimenCount>
|
||
, in
|
||
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFA4FFA4FC0A13E0C4CB4D87" box="[911,932,188,211]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" type="female">♀</specimenCount>
|
||
segment 4, 5 and sometimes 6 more or less triangular, the rest more or less quadrate.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF421258C5AB4F68" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Pronotum: 1.49–1.65 times as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin weakly bisinuate, with a slightly developed broad often strongly truncated median lobe; posterior margin bisinuate; widest behind, at or in front of mid-length; lateral margins weakly rectilinearly diverging from the posterior angles to widest point, (sometimes slightly sinuate near posterior angles), thence weakly to 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, about half to three-quarters complete; punctation sparse to 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 without microreticulate microsculpture; moderately densely clothed with fairly long silvery pubescence in lateral half.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF42111BC5AE4FD0" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Scutellum: variable in shape, almost round, ovate or quadrate, about one-fourteenth to one-seventeenth width of elytra at base; often with a puncture or dimple.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF4211D3C24B4EF0" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
|
||
Elytra: 2.05–2.52 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, two or rarely three costate intervals in the inner twothirds; internal of the first costate interval, sparsely to 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
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA4FFA4FDC210D0C5D24EF0" box="[583,701,908,932]" form="short" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" rank="form">form short</taxonomicName>
|
||
transverse series; moderately strongly microreticulate.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF4210F3C69D4EB8" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Proepisternum: very densely punctured with moderately large, shallow, lunate punctures, partly obscured by dense long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF4210A4C43E4903" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Prosternum: with a narrow 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="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF421738C6A149CB" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Mesoepisternum: densely punctured, with moderately large, shallow, semi lunate punctures; partly obscured by long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF4217F0C253487B" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
|
||
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
|
||
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFA4FFA4FC73178CC36449B3" box="[1014,1035,1232,1255]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" type="male">♂</specimenCount>
|
||
excision not very deep, much wider than deep, distal margin of the flange straight, the spines moderately developed, slightly shorter or as long as the depth of the flange (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13762A03FFA4FFA4FEAA164BC6E0487B" box="[303,399,1303,1327]" captionStart="FIGURES 207–218" captionStartId="105.[151,258,1395,1416]" captionTargetBox="[175,1389,191,1317]" captionTargetId="figure-123@105.[173,1422,191,1374]" captionTargetPageId="105" captionText="FIGURES 207–218. Melobasis spp. formosa and gloriosa species groups excision of apical sternites: 207–208 M. flexa sp. n.: 207. ♂ (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 208. ♀ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 209–210 M. janae sp. n.: 209 ♂ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 210 ♀ (paratype, Wialki, W.A.); 211–212 M. goerlingi sp. n.: 211. ♂ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 212. ♀ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 213. M. brevis sp. n. ♂ (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 214–215 M. formosa Carter: 214. ♂ (Geraldton, W.A.); 215. ♀ (Cue, W.A.); 216. M. purpurilata sp. n. ♂ (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 217. M. acutula sp. n. ♀ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 218. M. eximia sp. n. ♂ (holotype, Tennant Creek–Newcastle Waters)." pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Fig. 214</figureCitation>
|
||
); in
|
||
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFA4FFA4FE3B1644C6BC487B" box="[446,467,1304,1327]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" type="female">♀</specimenCount>
|
||
excision and spines absent the sternite truncate in front of the flange (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13762A03FFA4FFA4FB55164BC25F487B" box="[1232,1328,1303,1327]" captionStart="FIGURES 207–218" captionStartId="105.[151,258,1395,1416]" captionTargetBox="[175,1389,191,1317]" captionTargetId="figure-123@105.[173,1422,191,1374]" captionTargetPageId="105" captionText="FIGURES 207–218. Melobasis spp. formosa and gloriosa species groups excision of apical sternites: 207–208 M. flexa sp. n.: 207. ♂ (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 208. ♀ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 209–210 M. janae sp. n.: 209 ♂ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 210 ♀ (paratype, Wialki, W.A.); 211–212 M. goerlingi sp. n.: 211. ♂ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 212. ♀ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 213. M. brevis sp. n. ♂ (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 214–215 M. formosa Carter: 214. ♂ (Geraldton, W.A.); 215. ♀ (Cue, W.A.); 216. M. purpurilata sp. n. ♂ (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 217. M. acutula sp. n. ♀ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 218. M. eximia sp. n. ♂ (holotype, Tennant Creek–Newcastle Waters)." pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Fig. 215</figureCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF431660C4F74800" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" box="[198,920,1340,1364]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Tarsal claws: slightly widened at base, but without a basal tooth.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF421603C6DC4823" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" box="[199,435,1375,1399]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
|
||
Aedeagus (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13762A03FFA4FFA4FEC01603C6C94823" box="[325,422,1375,1399]" captionStart="FIGURES 164–170" captionStartId="99.[151,257,1918,1939]" captionTargetBox="[217,1379,205,1871]" captionTargetId="figure-81@99.[198,1394,191,1899]" captionTargetPageId="99" captionText="FIGURES 164–170. Melobasis spp. formosa species group aedeagi: 164. M. burnsi sp. n. (paratype, 26 km S. of Menzies); 165. M. formosa Carter (Cue, W.A.); 166. M. brevis sp. n. (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 167. M. dividua sp. n. (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 168. M. marlooensis Carter (Wurarga, W.A.); 169. M. brittoni sp. n. (paratype, Ankertell, W.A.); 170. M. flexa sp. n. (Bencubbin, W.A.). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Fig. 165</figureCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF4216D8C68248C8" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" box="[199,493,1412,1436]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Ovipositor: not examined.</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C357650DFFA4FFA4FF4216FBC64D4B78" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" type="discussion">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF4216FBC23D48B0" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
|
||
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA4FFA4FF4216FBC6204894" bold="true" box="[199,335,1447,1472]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" reason="1">Comments.</emphasis>
|
||
This species is very variable. Specimens without or with much reduced elytral markings are likely to be confused with
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA4FFA4FEFF1691C51848B0" authority="Carter" authorityName="Carter" box="[378,631,1484,1508]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marlooensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA4FFA4FEFF1691C54748B0" box="[378,552,1484,1508]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">M. marlooensis</emphasis>
|
||
Carter
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, however the aedaegus of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA4FFA4FC1B1691C32248B0" box="[926,1101,1484,1508]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marlooensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA4FFA4FC1B1691C32248B0" box="[926,1101,1484,1508]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">M. marlooensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is much more elongate
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA4FFA4FF4216B3C64D4B78" blockId="38.[151,1436,151,1580]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
|
||
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA4FFA4FF4216B3C6254B5C" bold="true" box="[199,330,1519,1544]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
|
||
Adults collected November–March on
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA4FFA4FCAE16ACC4DA4B53" box="[811,949,1520,1544]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
|
||
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA4FFA4FCAE16ACC4164B5C" box="[811,889,1520,1544]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Acacia</emphasis>
|
||
spp.
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Adult cut out of Jam Tree [
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA4FFA4FAA516ACC6774B78" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
|
||
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA4FFA4FAA516ACC2014B5C" box="[1312,1390,1520,1544]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Acacia</emphasis>
|
||
sp. (Fabaceae)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
].
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
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