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Description de Maa (1963) :
This genus is allied ta Apomachaerota and they have several characters in common , Viz. humpbacked body, narrow head, strongly upturned abdominal apex, smooth and transparent tegmen, "tailed" scutellum, quite prominent tegminal veins, bullate M and 2A strongly curved cubitus and large corial appendix. The last 5 characters are unique for the tribe and arc 110t shared by other related genera. Its differences from Apomachaerota are: Body much smaller, more flattened, distinctly wider than deep in profile; head in profile snout-like; Anteclypeus less strongly carinate; postclypeus convex, no median furrow i3' with a weak, oval, medium prominence near top; pleurostome broader than lorum, with long, fine decumbent hai1's, its lower end plane, separated from lorum by a long deep suture; maximum length of gena proper and minimum breadth of pleurostome subequal; maxillary plate hardly exposed, its outer margin less strongly reflexed; eye about as long as wide, outer margin el1tire and in contact with hind margin of head; tylus distinctly narrower than eye (as broad as eye in Baker's figure), about 1/2 broader than side piece of vertex; ocelli much closer to each other than to eyes; pronotum coarsely, densely rugosepunctate; scutellum proper low, normal, slightly depressed medially; scutellar apex foveate lacking basal constriction; tegminal venation normal, with only about 10 c10sed cells a; corium; clavus with strong preapical bulla and acute apex; hind tibia slender, about 2X as long as hind femur (1.5 X in Apo11laclIaeJ'ofa) , with 2 lateral spil1es; outer apical lobe of hind tarsomere 1 hardly shorter than inner lobe.