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7. Genus MAORAXIA Obenberger, 1937
[Feminine - 9 species - Australasian, Oceania, Oriental regions]

Buprestis: White 1846:6; Obenberger 1937:1449.
Neocuris: Kerremans 1892:131; 1903a:180; Obenberger 1937:1449.
Maoriella Obenberger 1924a:19 (name praeocc. Attems, 1903); Théry 1925c:225; Obenberger 1926f:98; Carter 1926:57; Obenberger 1930:78; 1936u:142; Dumbleton 1939:256; Obenberger 1957c:311; Bellamy 1985b:421; 1986c:590; 2002c:139; 2003b:51.
Type species: Maoriella novaezeelandiae Obenberger, 1924 (original designation).
Maoraxia Obenberger 1937:1449 (nom. nov. for Maoriella Obenberger, 1924); 1939k:78; 1957c:310; Bellamy & Williams 1985:150 (subspecies of key); Bellamy 1985b:421; 1986c:590; Hołyński 1988:49; Bellamy 1990b:187; 1991a:457 (spp. key); Hołyński 1993c:14; Bellamy & Peterson 2000b:101; Bílý 2000e:111; Bellamy 2002c:139; 2003b:51.
Type species: as for Maoriella Obenberger, 1924.

        Phylogeny: Maoraxia Bellamy 1991d:465.

  
       
    29. kladavuensis Bellamy 2008:9.
Fiji Distribution: Kadavu
Specimens examined. Holotype ♂ (FNIC): Kadavu 		 
       
    30. tokotaai Bellamy 2008:8.
Fiji Distribution: Viti Levu
Specimens examined. Holotype ♂ (FNIC): Viti Levu		  
       
    31. viridis Bellamy, in Bellamy & Williams 1985:158; Bellamy 1990b:189; 1991a:461; 2008:17.
Fiji Distribution: Ringold Islands
Specimens examined. Holotype ♂ (BPBM 13277): Ringold Islands, Thikombia, 26.ix.1924.		 image
       
    32. viti Bellamy 2008:7.
Fiji Distribution: Viti Levu
Specimens examined. Holotype ♂ (FNIC): Viti Levu		  
   
 
   
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