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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC1FFC1FF1215D0C6704BF2" bold="true" box="[151,287,1676,1702]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">M. angusta</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC1FFC1FF1215F2C6254B92" blockId="67.[151,360,1675,1734]" box="[151,330,1710,1734]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">(Figs. 130, 192)</paragraph>
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locality:
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.
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(
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, 8045A/
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B. Levey 2010.
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:
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,
<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFC1FFC1FF12143EC79C4A2E" box="[151,243,1890,1914]" country="United Kingdom" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/e7dr-nxad" name="National Museum of Wales" pageId="67" pageNumber="68" type="Museum">NMWC</collectionCode>
) same data as Holotype but 8045 C and 8045 D
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;
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(
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(
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) 48 2180,
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/
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</materialsCitation>
.
<materialsCitation id="3B253CDBFFC1FFC1FD0614DAC4EA4ACA" box="[643,901,1926,1950]" collectionCode="ANIC" location="Cunderdin" pageId="67" pageNumber="68" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" typeStatus="paratype">
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(
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC1FFC1FF4214F6C62E4A97" bold="true" box="[199,321,1962,1987]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="68" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
General diagnosis: length
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;
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head with frontoclypeus and lower three-quarters of vertex bright green with coppery reflections, upper quarter of vertex deep purple,
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dark brown-bronze;
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central half of pronotum reddish-purple, violet-blue or bluish-green, lateral half bright green sometimes with a coppery reflection,
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entirely blackish-bronze; scutellum bright green or golden; elytra deep purple-brown, with the following bright green to golden markings: a poorly defined sutural vitta in the basal seventh; an elongate humeral vitta slightly more than one-quarter the length of the elytra; a sinuate transverse median fascia extending from the subsutural depression to about the lateral third of the elytra; a slightly elongate pre-apical macula;
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underside bright green, sometimes with coppery reflections,
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blackish-olive to brownish-bronze; whole of underside moderately densely clothed with moderately long to long silvery pubescence.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF4212C8C5DA4F6F" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Head: very densely to contiguously punctured with small strong punctures, which partly coalesce to form dorso-ventrally orientated series on the lower half to two-thirds of the head; densely clothed with long silvery pubescence; unpunctured areas shiny; clypeal excision very shallow, U-shaped, with an unpunctured shiny or microreticulate border; clypeal peaks acute; vertex flat, slightly less than three-fifths width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes strongly convex.</paragraph>
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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, except segment 4 which is triangular, in
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the expanded part of all segments more or less triangular.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF4211E8C2F84E93" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Pronotum: 1.401.58 times as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin strongly bisinuate, with a strongly produced median lobe; anterior beaded margin narrow, but well defined; posterior margin bisinuate; widest at mid-length; lateral margins parallel sided for a short distant in front of posterior angles, before strongly diverging to mid-length, then strongly curvilinearly converging to the anterior angles; as wide at base as elytra at base; lateral carina slightly sinuate, about half to two-thirds complete; punctation dense medially, consisting of small round punctures, punctures becoming progressively larger and very dense laterally; sometimes with traces of an unpunctured midline; sometimes with a small well marked depression near the lateral margin just behind the midlength; shiny to weakly microsculptured; with some moderately long silvery pubescence close to the lateral margin.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF421088C2ED4EB8" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" box="[199,1410,980,1004]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Scutellum: roughly shield-shaped, microsculptured, depressed at centre, about one-twelfth width of elytra at base.</paragraph>
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Elytra: 2.262.43 times as long as wide at base; basal margin weakly to moderately strongly bisinuate; slightly widening from base over the humeral callosities, thence parallel sided to slightly beyond mid-length, before narrowing to the rounded apices; lateral margins in apical two-fifths and apices with acute serrations; sutural margins slightly raised in apical third; with a well marked costate interval next to the subsutural depression; subsutural depression sparsely punctured with very small round punctures; lateral to the costate interval the punctures become progressively larger and denser, becoming contiguous towards the lateral margin where they
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transverse series; weakly microreticulate.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF4217A8C518487B" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Proepisternum: contiguously punctured with fairly small shallow ovate punctures, partly obscured by moderately dense long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF421660C61C48EB" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Prosternum: with a poorly defined bead at the anterior margin, the anterior margin at almost the same level as the area behind; prosternal process slightly widening distally, densely punctured with small round punctures, with a groove formed from contiguous punctures close to the lateral margin for its entire length; densely clothed with long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF421690C35F48B7" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" box="[199,1072,1484,1508]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Mesoepisternum: shiny, with numerous very small variably shaped punctures.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF4216B3C6034B1B" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Apical sternite: with small lunate punctures, sometimes partly coalescent and forming short transverse series near the lateral margin; excision shallow crescent-shaped about twice as wide as deep, the lateral spines only slightly developed.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF421500C5654BC3" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">
Mid tibia:
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curved, rather swollen, with a long setae-filled depression on the ventral face,
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slightly curved, without a setae-filled depression.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF4215F8C4F64BE8" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" box="[199,921,1700,1724]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Tarsal claws: slightly widened at base, but without a basal tooth.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF42159BC2EA4B8B" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" box="[199,1413,1735,1760]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">
Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="13762A03FFC6FFC6FEC0159BC6C84B8B" box="[325,423,1735,1759]" captionStart="FIGURES 191195" captionStartId="103.[151,258,1904,1925]" captionTargetBox="[268,1345,217,1874]" captionTargetId="figure-71@103.[220,1371,191,1891]" captionTargetPageId="103" captionText="FIGURES 191195. Melobasis spp. gloriosa species group aedeagi: 191. M. specularis sp. n. (paratype, Lake Campion, W.A.); 192. M. angusta sp. n. (paratype, Merredin, W.A.); 193. M. gloriosa gloriosa (Laporte &amp; Gory) (Mt. Dale, W.A.); 194. M. gloriosa cruentata Thomson (Sydney, N.S.W.); 195. M. eximia sp. n. (holotype, Tennant CreekNewcastle Waters, N. T.). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Fig. 192</figureCitation>
): very long and narrow; apical setae-bearing part of parameres with long fine setae only.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFFC6FFC6FF4215B7C5974A18" pageId="68" pageNumber="69" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF4215B7C5974A18" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC6FFC6FF4215B7C63E4A50" bold="true" box="[199,337,1771,1796]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Comments:</emphasis>
This species is only likely to be confused with some forms of
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC6FFC6FB8C15B1C3C94A50" box="[1033,1190,1772,1796]" italics="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">
M. g.
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</emphasis>
having similar elytral and pronotal markings. The much longer and denser pubescence on the head and prosternal process, and the narrower shape will distinguish it from
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC6FFC6FDD71469C5974A18" box="[594,760,1844,1868]" italics="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">
M. g.
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.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C357650DFFC6FFC6FF421404C36B4AC0" pageId="68" pageNumber="69" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF421404C4224A3B" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" box="[199,845,1879,1904]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC6FFC6FF421404C6214A24" bold="true" box="[199,334,1880,1904]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="69" reason="1">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named from its narrow shape.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFC6FFC6FF421427C36B4AC0" blockId="68.[151,1436,151,1940]" box="[199,1028,1915,1940]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">
<emphasis id="B939EA94FFC6FFC6FF421427C6254AC0" bold="true" box="[199,330,1915,1940]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="69" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
Adult collected in AugustSeptember. Larval hosts unknown.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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