Female mostly purplish with a trace of green above and below, and very limited gold reflections on humeral margin of elytra. Male multi-coloured above and bright green below; coppery to gold reflections on sides of pronotum and in the humeral depressions and median part of elytra.
This species has been assigned a phrase name as it has not yet been identified, but appears to be related to M. sexplagiata (M. pretiosa group).
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| Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
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9 | number of active beetles, actually recorded in that quarter-month | |
| actual count > 2 (mean) | ||
| actual count <= 2 (mean) | ||
| beetles | sites | SA regions¹ | family | position on host plant | ||
| Eucalyptus sp. | 3 | 1 | KI | M |
| Legend | beetles | count of beetles collected from, or sighted on, host plant taxon |
| sites | count of major sites (unique 10 km grid cells +/- some distinct approximate localities) |
| Code | beetles | % | host plant taxa | |
| M | Myrtaceae | 3 | 100% | 1 |
| position | beetles | sites | ||
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| on dead trunk | 3 | 1 | ||
Observed by R.V. Glatz visiting several dead Eucalyptus trees over a period of several weeks, so it probably breeds in dead Eucalyptus wood.
| 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 |