GBIF Taxonomic Backbone & Wikipedia Registry Profile
Description. In addition to the characters of the genus (see Desutter-Grandcolas 1993): Coloration. Fig. 1 A – D. Head dorsum light brown with diffuse longitudinal dark lines; face (Fig. 1 B) light brown, darker under eyes and antennal pits; distal margin of clypeus light yellow. Ocelli light yellow, more or less circled with brown. Eyes grey brown. Scape and base of antennae light yellow; antennae becoming light brown along their length. Maxillary palpi (Fig. 1 C) light yellow, distal half of joint 5 dark brown. DD (Fig. 1 A) yellowish brown, margins lighter; LL (Fig. 1 C) shiny brown, margins lighter and anterior angle yellow. Abdomen, including subgenital plate, black brown. Legs yellowish brown with darker knees, with many brown setae; femora with diffuse lighter spots; TIII spurs light yellowish, the apex darker. Cerci yellow. Male. Subgenital plate black. Male genitalia. Fig. 1 E – G. Pseudepiphallic median lobes fused into a flat and narrow process, concave in lateral view. Pseudepiphallic sclerite asymmetrical: in dorsal view, left part longer, with a deep notch between apex and transverse base (Fig. 1 E, G, arrow); right part shorter without a notch between apex and base. Pseudepiphallic parameres lobe-shaped, higher (in lateral view) than wide (in ventral view); hardly sclerotized. Epi-ectophallic invagination sclerotized and prolonged distad by a narrow projection, located between pseudepiphallic apex and ectophallic fold. Ectophallic apodemes divergent on distal half; proximal part widely apart. Endophallic cavity small, separated from ectophallic invagination by a transverse fold, from which a small membranous ectophallic fold could originate. Endophallic sclerite with paired lateral sclerites, and a short median one. Female. Subgenital plate (Fig. 1 H) very transverse, distal margin bisinuate; entirely dark brown. Penultimate sternite black brown; distal margin marked with a wide, hemispherical lighter band. Ovipositor shorter than TIII; dorsal margin of dorsal valves crenulate. Female genitalia. Not examined. Measurements (in mm). Variation. Lighter specimens have a somewhat yellowish spot on the face above epistemal suture; the area between the distal margin of the eyes and the distal margin of the cheeks is also lighter, and the lower margin of pronotum LL may be somewhat yellowish.
