. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 254 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM and femora slightly more brownish than yellowish. Body in $ coloured as in typical $, entirely black, though last abdominal segment is also entirely black, not showing through piceous brownish or reddish; spines on oviscape darker, blackish brown to black. Integument of the head and body with the same parts shining, the sculpture on thorax above, and puncturation and striation on abdomen, similar to those of the more typical 5*3* and ??, though hind margins of t
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 254 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM and femora slightly more brownish than yellowish. Body in $ coloured as in typical $, entirely black, though last abdominal segment is also entirely black, not showing through piceous brownish or reddish; spines on oviscape darker, blackish brown to black. Integument of the head and body with the same parts shining, the sculpture on thorax above, and puncturation and striation on abdomen, similar to those of the more typical 5*3* and ??, though hind margins of tergite 7 in <$ and 8 in $ with apparently more and coarser puncturation discally across. Vestiture very similar, but hairs in streaks on disc of thorax in <$ darker brownish fulvous, and hairs on abdomen darker, appearing more blackish; hairs on legs in $ very similar, in $ slightly less dense and on the whole darker. n 0 a. Fig. 9. Hypopygial structures of 6" Arenomydas callosus (Wied.) Left: Dorsal view of dorsal anal lobes, lobes of tergite 9 and calliper- like processes of sternite 9. Right: Oblique side view of isolated aedeagal apparatus, showing the two phallic tubes and shortish dorsal epimere. Head with the antennae variable in length, usually longer than thorax (excluding scutellum) in $, but in $ definitely shorter; segment 1 relatively shorter than in typical form, more consistently only about 2 • 5 times length of segment 2; segment 3 variable as in typical form, shorter than club; the latter similar; proboscis either as long as, or a little shorter, or a little longer than, vertical length of eye. Wings very dark, tinted blackish in both sexes as in $ callosus , but apex distinctly much less contrastingly whitish; venational characters the same. Legs in £ distinctly less stoutish, thinner, in $ similar to typical form; hind femora in q comparatively less thickened. Oviscape of $ with 8-9 darker spines on a Please note that these images a
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