Amblycara

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Amblycara Bergroth, 1891

Photo © Emma Betts, Australian Museum

Type species:

Abeona gladiatoria Stål, 1876 by monotypy.

Number of Australian species:

One.

Extralimital Distribution:

Oriental Region - India, Sri Lanka.

Australian Distribution:

Tropical regions of Queensland.

Biology:

Unknown.

Host(s):

Unknown.

Diagnosis:

Colour

Dorsum pale brown to yellow with slightly darker punctations and black details on the head and anterolateral margins. Venter pale brown to yellow, legs and antennae pale brown and concolourous.

Texture

Densely and uniformly punctate.

Vestiture

Glabrous.

Structure

Body - Elongate-ovoid, dorsally convex. Length 15.7 mm -15.5 mm; width 10.3 mm -14.3 mm.

Head - Subtriangular to quadrate, moderately dorsoventrally orientated, as long or longer than pronotum; jugae equal in length to clypeus, apically truncate and broad, laterally carinate; antennifer processes absent; first antennal segment shorter than distance between eyes, inserted below mid-height but above ventral margin of eyes; bucculae elongate (posteriorly beyond antennifers); vertex cross-sectional shape flattened; labium extending to second or third abdominal sterna, first labial segment equal in length to bucculae; eyes not stylate, directed laterally.

Pronotum - Calli present; anterior lobe surface flat; humeral angles angulate and greatly expanded anterolaterally; lateral margins rounded; anterolateral margins simple and sinuate or concave; posterolateral margins convex to sinuate; posterior margin sinuate.

Scutellum - Triangular, apex narrowly rounded; lateral calli present; medial callus absent.

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

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

Hemelytra - Macropterous, longer than abdomen; membrane veins linear and mostly subparallel.

Legs - Fore tibiae rounded.

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