Hillieria

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Hillieria Distant, 1910

Photo © Emma Betts, Australian Museum

Type species:

Hillieria acuminata Distant, 1910 by monotypy.

Number of Australian species:

One.

Extralimital Distribution:

No.

Australian Distribution:

Temperate and arid regions; Northern Territory and South Australia.

Biology:

Unknown.

Host(s):

Unknown.

Diagnosis:

Colour

Dorsally and ventrally pale brown or yellowish with medium to dark brown punctations. Legs pale brown, antennae pale brown basally gradually darkening to orangey-brown apically.

Texture

Densely and uniformly punctate.

Vestiture

Glabrous.

Structure

Body - Elongate, parallel-sided; dorsally flattened. Length 5.5 mm - 8.9 mm; width 2.5 mm - 5.3 mm.

Head - Triangular, porrect (clypeus horizontally orientated), as long or longer than pronotum; jugae longer than clypeus, meeting (joined) in front of the eyes, apically pointed, laterally carinate; antennifer processes present; five antennal segments, first antennal segment shorter than the distance between the eyes, inserted below mid-height but above the ventral margin of the eyes; bucculae elongate (posteriorly beyond antennifers); vertex cross-sectional shape convex; labium reaching between middle and hind coxae, first labial segment longer than bucculae; eyes not stylate, directed laterally.

Pronotum - Calli present, anterior lobe surface flat; humeral angles subangulate; lateral margins carinate; anterolateral margins simple and concave; posterolateral margins sinuate; posterior margin straight.

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

Thoracic sterna - Prosternum deeply sulcate with margin processes; mesosternum and metasternum sulcate.

External efferent system - Evaporative scent gland covering approximately half the metepisternum; peritreme very short, apically rounded.

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

Legs - Fore tibiae sulcate.

Abdomen - Connexiva dorsally visible; laterotergites unarmed.