Aglaophon

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Aglaophon Stål, 1876

Photo © Emma Betts, Australian Museum

Type species:

Aglaophon varius Stål, 1876 by monotypy.

Number of Australian species:

Two.

Extralimital Distribution:

No.

Australian Distribution:

Temperate and subtropical regions; New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

Biology:

Unknown.

Host(s):

Unknown.

Diagnosis:

Colour

Dorsum base colour is pale brown to yellowish with dark brown to balck punctations, giving an overall appearance of being medium to dark brown. Venter of thorax pale brown with numerous darker punctations, abdomen predominately dark brown. Legs mostly medium to dark brown, with some pale to medium brown patches. Antennae medium to dark brown and concolourous.

Texture

Densely and uniformly punctate.

Vestiture

Glabrous.

Structure

Body - Elongate-ovoid, dorsally convex. Length 10.3 mm -14.9 mm; width 7.3 mm -11.3 mm.

Head - Triangular, shorter than pronotum, porrect (clypeus horizontal) to moderately dorsoventrally orientated; jugae shorter than clypeus, apically pointed, laterally carinate; antennifer processes absent; five antennal segments, first antennal segment shorter than distance between the eyes, inserted below mid-height but above ventral margin of the eyes; bucculae elongate (posteriorly beyond antennifers); vertex cross-sectional shape convex; labium extendding to fourth sterna or beyond, first labial segment longer than bucculae; eyes not stylate, directed laterally.

Pronotum - Calli present; anterior lobe surface flat; humeral angles angulate; lateral margins carinate; anterolateral margins crenulate and sinuate to slightly concave; posterolateral margins sinuate; posterior margin straight.

Scutellum - Triangular, apex narrowly rounded; Y-shaped raised area present but low; lateral calli present; medial callus absent.

Thoracic sterna - Prosternum very shallowly sulcate; mesosternum with a low raised keel; metasternum flat.

External efferent system - Evaporative scent gland covering approximately half the metepisternum; peritreme elongate, apically pointed.

Hemelytra - Macropterous, longer than abdomen; membrane veins reticulate.

Legs - Fore tibiae sulcate.

Abdomen - Connexiva visible dorsally; laterotergites armed with postero-laterlly directed spines; abdominal sterna with a weak, longitudinal depression or labial groove.