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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFABFFABFF1210F3C66D4E9D" bold="true" box="[151,258,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">M. janae</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFABFFABFF12108EC6D64EBE" blockId="41.[151,441,943,1002]" box="[151,441,978,1002]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">(Figs. 110, 173, 209, 210)</paragraph>
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<materialsCitation id="3B253CDBFFABFFABFF121741C33E4961" box="[151,1105,1053,1078]" latitude="-28.4" location="Marloo" longLatPrecision="1232" longitude="116.48333" municipality="Wurarga" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Western Australia" typeStatus="holotype">
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locality:
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,
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,
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sheep station (
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)
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.
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(
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),
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19311941
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/
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFABFFABFEB61734C683492B" authority="Levey, 2012" authorityName="Levey" authorityYear="2012" box="[307,492,1128,1152]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="janae" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFABFFABFEB61734C683492B" box="[307,492,1128,1152]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Melobasis janae</emphasis>
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det.
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFABFFABFD59173BC40449D4" box="[732,875,1127,1152]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="generic" typeStatus="paratypes">24 paratypes</specimenCount>
as follows:
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<collectingRegion id="4989F864FFABFFABFC721734C3BC49D4" box="[1015,1235,1127,1152]" country="Australia" name="Western Australia" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
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:
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,
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, (
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFABFFABFACB173BC2F8492B" box="[1358,1431,1127,1151]" country="Australia" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:32981" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:32981" name="Australian National Insect Collection" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">ANIC</collectionCode>
,
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFABFFABFF1217D1C79949F1" box="[151,246,1165,1189]" country="United Kingdom" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/e7dr-nxad" name="National Museum of Wales" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="Museum">NMWC</collectionCode>
), same data as Holotype;
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(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFABFFABFDD517D1C5CB49F1" box="[592,676,1165,1189]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">ZMHB</collectionCode>
) same data as
<typeStatus id="54F68824FFABFFABFCCA17D1C4D849F1" box="[847,951,1165,1189]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
but 1938;
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, (
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFABFFABFBEA17D1C3A049F1" box="[1135,1231,1165,1189]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">MVMA</collectionCode>
),
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFB6117D1C2F749F1" box="[1252,1432,1165,1189]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Kellerberrin, W</collectorName>
. Australia/
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFE8B17EFC6BA499E" box="[270,469,1202,1226]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">F.E. Wilson Coll.</collectorName>
;
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFABFFABFE6617EEC56A499E" box="[483,517,1202,1226]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="male">4♂</specimenCount>
,
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFABFFABFD9017EEC557499E" box="[533,568,1202,1226]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
, (
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFABFFABFDCA17EEC5C9499E" box="[591,678,1202,1226]" country="Belgium" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/c7r2-61q8" name="Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">IRSNB</collectionCode>
,
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFABFFABFD3617EEC47D499E" box="[691,786,1202,1226]" country="United Kingdom" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/e7dr-nxad" name="National Museum of Wales" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="Museum">NMWC</collectionCode>
),
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFCA317EEC4D5499E" box="[806,954,1202,1226]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Merredin, X.</collectorName>
,
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFC4D17EEC36A499E" box="[968,1029,1202,1226]" name="W. Australia" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">W.A.</collectorName>
, ex coll.
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFBEB17EEC39C499E" box="[1134,1267,1202,1226]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">C. Deuquet</collectorName>
;
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFABFFABFA8517EEC24D499E" box="[1280,1314,1202,1226]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
, (
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFABFFABFABF17EEC217499E" box="[1338,1400,1202,1226]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">GBC</collectionCode>
), 6
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFF12178BC66849BB" box="[151,263,1239,1263]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Mls. S.W.</collectorName>
of
<location id="8E92605DFFABFFABFEAB1784C6D449BB" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03E48790FFABFFA8FF1210F3C54F4BE8:8E92605DFFABFFABFEAB1784C6D449BB" box="[302,443,1239,1264]" name="Paynes Find" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" stateProvince="Western Australia">Paynes Find</location>
, 11.10.80.,
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFDBB178BC5CC49BB" box="[574,675,1239,1263]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">G. Burns</collectorName>
;
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFABFFABFD35178BC5BC49BB" box="[688,723,1239,1263]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFABFFABFD66178BC47149BB" box="[739,798,1239,1263]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">ASC</collectionCode>
),
<locationDeviation id="9A402FA4FFABFFABFCB7178BC3D049BB" box="[818,1215,1239,1263]" location="Pinegrove Homestead" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
<quantity id="4CB59B63FFABFFABFCB7178BC4EE49BB" box="[818,897,1239,1263]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.8" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" unit="km" value="2.8">2.8 km</quantity>
N of Pinegrove Homestead
</locationDeviation>
, WA, -27 45 46.60, 115 39 49.70,
<date id="FFF31046FFABFFABFEBF17A1C6C94841" box="[314,422,1277,1301]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="2010-09-08">
<collectingDate id="EFB7E9AEFFABFFABFEBF17A1C6C94841" box="[314,422,1277,1301]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="2010-09-08">8.ix.2010</collectingDate>
</date>
, on leaves of large
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFABFFABFD0117A1C5954841" box="[644,762,1277,1301]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFABFFABFD0117A1C5BD4841" box="[644,722,1277,1301]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Acacia</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
shrub,
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFCCA17A1C4874841" box="[847,1000,1277,1301]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">A. Sundholm</collectorName>
,
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFC7117A2C3104841" box="[1012,1151,1277,1301]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">D. Knowles</collectorName>
;
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFABFFABFB0E17A1C3C14841" box="[1163,1198,1277,1301]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
, (
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFABFFABFB4017A1C24B4841" box="[1221,1316,1277,1301]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">WAMA</collectionCode>
), 51-1794, Wialki;
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFABFFABFF77167EC67A486E" box="[242,277,1314,1338]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
,
<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFABFFABFEA1167EC628486E" box="[292,327,1314,1338]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="female">4♀</specimenCount>
(
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFABFFABFEDA167EC6AA486E" box="[351,453,1314,1338]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">TMSHC</collectionCode>
),
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFE5C167FC56C486E" box="[473,515,1315,1338]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">No.</collectorName>
4 pump
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFDEC167EC584486E" box="[617,747,1314,1338]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Merredin R</collectorName>
/
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFABFFABFD79167FC400486F" authorityName="Laporte &amp; Gory" authorityYear="1837" box="[764,879,1315,1339]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFABFFABFD79167FC400486F" box="[764,879,1315,1339]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Melobasis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, on broad leaf
<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFABFFABFB99167FC274486E" authority=", Merredin No." authorityName="Merredin No." box="[1052,1307,1314,1339]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFABFFABFB99167FC305486F" box="[1052,1130,1315,1339]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Acacia</emphasis>
, Merredin No.
</taxonomicName>
4 pumping station
<collectorName id="26B85350FFABFFABFF6D161BC64A480B" box="[232,293,1351,1375]" name="W. Australia" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">W.A.</collectorName>
,
<date id="FFF31046FFABFFABFEB4161BC6CE480B" box="[305,417,1351,1375]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="1940-09-24">
<collectingDate id="EFB7E9AEFFABFFABFEB4161BC6CE480B" box="[305,417,1351,1375]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="1940-09-24">24.9.1940</collectingDate>
</date>
HWB [on underside of mounting card]
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C357650DFFABFFA8FF421631C5C948EB" lastPageId="42" lastPageNumber="43" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="diagnosis">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFABFFABFF421631C62E48D2" bold="true" box="[199,321,1389,1414]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length 8.011.0 mm; head and pronotum steel-blue, turquoise-blue or blackishgreen, sometimes pronotum at centre with a violet reflection; elytra bluish-violet or reddish-violet, with the following yellow-green, golden or coppery markings: a sutural vitta in the basal fifth to quarter; a slightly shorter oblique humeral vitta internal to the humeral callosity, which extends laterally along the basal margin and along the lateral margin for a short distance, and is continued along the epipleura to the level of the hind coxa; a slightly sinuate transverse median fascia which extends from the outer edge of the substural depression, almost to the lateral margin; a roughly obovate to slightly transverse pre-apical macula; underside greenish- or brownishbronze; lateral parts of underside moderately densely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence.
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Head: very densely to contiguously punctured with small round and elliptical punctures which sometimes coalesce to
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series orientated dorso-ventrally on the lower half of the vertex and the frontoclypeus; densely clothed with fairly long silvery pubescence; unpunctured areas shiny to strongly microreticulate; clypeal excision moderately deep, U-shaped, with an unpunctured weakly to strongly microreticulate border which is sometimes only developed at centre; clypeal peaks acute; vertex flat, three fifths the width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes moderately strongly to strongly convex.
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Antenna: serrate from segment 410, the segments becoming progressively smaller and slightly less elongate, in
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the expanded part of the segments is quadrate, in
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the expanded part of segments 4 and 5 are more or less triangular, segments 610 subquadrate.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF4213C4C4174F43" blockId="42.[151,1436,151,1724]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Pronotum: 1.371.50 times as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin bisinuate, with a shallowly produced broad median lobe, which is sometimes scarcely produced and the margin is almost straight at the centre; anterior beaded margin narrow, but well defined; posterior margin bisinuate; widest at or slightly in front of the mid-length; lateral margins almost parallel for a short distance in front of posterior angles thence very slightly divergent to widest point, sometimes almost as wide at posterior angles as at widest point; moderately strongly curvilinearly convergent from widest point to the anterior angles; almost as wide as or slightly narrower at base than elytra at base; lateral carina slightly sinuate, about half to three-quarters complete; punctation sparse to moderately dense in central fifth, consisting of small round punctures and pin-prick punctures, which become progressively larger and denser towards the lateral margin; usually with at least a partly developed unpunctured midline; shiny or with weak reticulate microsculpture; moderately densely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence which is confined to the lateral third of the pronotum.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF421178C5A64F0B" blockId="42.[151,1436,151,1724]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Scutellum: approximately heart shaped to slightly transverse quadrate; shiny or weakly microsculptured; about one-tenth to one-thirteenth width of elytra at base.</paragraph>
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Elytra: 2.372.72 times as long as wide at the base; basal margin weakly bisinuate; very slightly widening from base over the humeral callosities; just behind the humeral callosity the elytra often become very slightly constricted for a short distance before slightly widening to the mid-length, thence narrowing to the broadly rounded apices; lateral margins from somewhat beyond mid-length and apices with strong acute serrations; sutural margin strongly raised in apical half; each elytron with a slightly developed costa next to the subsutural depression, sometimes with indications of a less well defined costa lateral to the first costa; subsutural depression sparsely punctured with very small round punctures; punctation lateral to the first costate interval consisting of larger denser punctures which become progressively denser, larger and more ovate towards the lateral margin, where they
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transverse series; moderately strongly microreticulate.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF4210F3C4EC4EB8" blockId="42.[151,1436,151,1724]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Proepisternum: very densely or contiguously punctured with moderately large, shallow round and ovate punctures, partly obscured by moderately long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF4210A4C6554928" blockId="42.[151,1436,151,1724]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Prosternum: with a narrow bead at the anterior margin, at the same level as the area behind; prosternal process almost parallel sided or slightly widening behind the fore coxae, very sparsely punctured with pin-prick punctures, with a groove formed from coalescent punctures near the lateral margin; glabrous, or with sparse setae near the lateral margin.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF4217DBC5914990" blockId="42.[151,1436,151,1724]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Mesoepisternum: very densely to contiguously punctured, with moderately large, shallow, lunate and round punctures; partly obscured by long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
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Apical sternite: with lunate punctures near the lateral margin contiguous, but not forming grooves parallel to the lateral margin; excision about two times as wide as deep in
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(
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), three to four times as wide as deep in
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(
<figureCitation id="13762A03FFA8FFA8FF3B164BC64C487B" box="[190,291,1303,1327]" captionStart="FIGURES 207218" captionStartId="105.[151,258,1395,1416]" captionTargetBox="[175,1389,191,1317]" captionTargetId="figure-123@105.[173,1422,191,1374]" captionTargetPageId="105" captionText="FIGURES 207218. Melobasis spp. formosa and gloriosa species groups excision of apical sternites: 207208 M. flexa sp. n.: 207. ♂ (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 208. ♀ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 209210 M. janae sp. n.: 209 ♂ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 210 ♀ (paratype, Wialki, W.A.); 211212 M. goerlingi sp. n.: 211. ♂ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 212. ♀ (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 213. M. brevis sp. n. ♂ (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 214215 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 CreekNewcastle Waters)." pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Fig. 210</figureCitation>
); the lateral spines slightly developed, shorter than the depth of the flange; distal margin of flange straight Tarsal claws: slightly widened at base, but without a basal tooth.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF421603C7A548CF" blockId="42.[151,1436,151,1724]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FFA8FFA8FEC11603C6C94823" box="[324,422,1375,1399]" captionStart="FIGURES 171178" captionStartId="100.[151,257,1882,1903]" captionTargetBox="[195,1399,212,1877]" captionTargetId="figure-105@100.[159,1432,191,1902]" captionTargetPageId="100" captionText="FIGURES 171178. Melobasis spp. fomosa species group aedeagi: 171. M. acutula sp. n. (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 172. M. septemplagiata Carter (Wurarga, W.A.); 173. M. janae sp. n. (paratype, Wurarga, W.A.); 174. M. goerlingi sp. n. (holotype, Wialki, W.A.); 175. M. powelli sp. n. (paratype, 3335 km N. of Paynes Find, W.A.); 176. M. nudipectus sp. n. (paratype, Ellendale Pool, East Geraldton, W.A.); 177. M. meyricki Blackburn (Strawberry, W.A.); 178. M. caudata Carter (Ankertell, W.A.). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Fig. 173</figureCitation>
): parameres strongly constricted near base and immediately before the apical setae-bearing part.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF4216FBC5C948EB" blockId="42.[151,1436,151,1724]" box="[199,678,1447,1471]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Ovipositor: short, slightly wider than long.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFFA8FFA8FF421697C63F4B1B" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF421697C63F4B1B" blockId="42.[151,1436,151,1724]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FF421697C63E48B0" bold="true" box="[199,337,1483,1508]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Comments:</emphasis>
This species is very similar in colour, elytral markings and general appearance to
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FB7C1691C21C48B0" box="[1273,1395,1484,1508]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">M. powelli</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FAFF1690C7C14B5C" bold="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
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, but can be distinguished by the form of the aedeagus, pronotal shape and other more minor differences (see comments under
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FED21549C6A14B78" box="[343,462,1556,1580]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">M. powelli</emphasis>
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). From
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FDAC1549C5DA4B78" box="[553,693,1556,1580]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">M. goerlingi</emphasis>
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it is most easily distinguished by the form of the aedeagus and the narrower vertex.
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFFA8FFA8FF421500C54F4BE8" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FF421500C6224B20" bold="true" box="[199,333,1628,1652]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" reason="1">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named after my wife Jan for all her support over the years.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA8FFA8FF421523C54F4BE8" blockId="42.[151,1436,151,1724]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FF421523C6254BCC" bold="true" box="[199,330,1663,1688]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adults have been collected in September and October. Adults collected from broad leaved
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA8FFA8FACB15DCC2F34BCC" box="[1358,1436,1664,1688]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Acacia</emphasis>
(Fabaceae)
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. Larval hosts unknown.
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