Head of male reddish copper to reddish purple; elytra with posterior margins and apices reddish violet or lilac; each elytron with one well defined costa, and traces of one or two others; most similar to M. a. ssp. angustecostata but has a very different aedeagus. (From Levey 2018).
Levey 2018 comments that SA specimens 'might be representatives of a different undescribed subspecies or species'.
| Legend | P.J.Lang collection vouchered records | |
| other private collection or museum specimens, or sightings |
| ¹ Legend | regions | SA State Herbarium regions (map) EA: Eastern, EP: Eyre Peninsula, FR: Flinders Ranges, GT: Gairdner-Torrens, KI: Kangaroo Island, LE: Lake Eyre, MU: Murray, NL: Northern Lofty, NU: Nullarbor, NW: North-Western, SE: South-Eastern, SL: Southern Lofty, YP: Yorke Peninsula |