. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 166 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM portionally also broader; clypeus flat-nose-shaped as in Ectyphus; proboscis also reduced and short, resembHng that oiEctyphus; antennae (cf. Fig. 8, left) proportionally shorter, much shorter than mesonotum, the clubs more pyri- form, not so elongate-pyriform or spindle-shaped as in Ectyphus, the apical sensory area and apical prominence less produced. Wings with 3 submarginal cells, not 2 only as in Ectyphus, the normal second has the basal appendix (which is
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 166 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM portionally also broader; clypeus flat-nose-shaped as in Ectyphus; proboscis also reduced and short, resembHng that oiEctyphus; antennae (cf. Fig. 8, left) proportionally shorter, much shorter than mesonotum, the clubs more pyri- form, not so elongate-pyriform or spindle-shaped as in Ectyphus, the apical sensory area and apical prominence less produced. Wings with 3 submarginal cells, not 2 only as in Ectyphus, the normal second has the basal appendix (which is present in all known species o^Ectyphus) joined to the posterior border vein of the marginal cell thus dividing the first sub- marginal cell into 2 cells and thus forming the 3 submarginal cells, of which the third is an enclosed cell; first posterior cell broadly opening on costal margin apically. Legs as in Ectyphus, but hind trochanters without any spines or processes; hind femora also markedly thickened, but more clavately so, their apices more narrowed, armed below in broadest subapical part and also sublaterally in apical part with stoutish spines on tubercles; front and middle femora unarmed below; front and middle tibiae armed with longer, stouter, spine-like spicules than in Ectyphus, and apically with much longer apical spicules; hind tibiae centrally carinate below as in Ectyphus, the carina also ending apically in a blunt process, but the spicules on hind tibiae more developed and with 2 long apical spicules on outer side of apical tibial process; tarsi with much stiffer short hairs and longer spicules; claws more strongly developed and longer, and the pulvilli well developed. Abdomen markedly broad and flattened dorso-ventrally, even in ^, more so than in some (^(^ o^Ectyphus, otherwise as in latter genus; tergite 8 concealed, but sternite 8 exposed as a scoop-like sclerite below and taking the place of the normal sternite 9 of most Mydaidae; lateral lobes of tergi
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