Pseudostrangalia Swaine & Hopping, 1928

Pseudostrangalia Swaine & Hopping, 1928 View in CoL

Pseudostrangalia Swaine & Hopping, 1928: 24 View in CoL .

Original description: “The form is depressed, front of the head short, cheeks shorter than the width of the mandibles at the base, eyes very large, antennae as long as the body, with segments 5 to 11 slender, distinctly longer than 3; pronotum polished, the hind angles broadly produced outward and obtuse; scutellum very slender; base of the elytra bilobed, with prominent humeri, apices strongly dehiscent, and arcuate on the sutural angle; the last dorsal segment [female symbol] wide, very broadly arcuate and spatulate at the apex; metepisternum slender, widened at the base; 1st and 2nd hind tarsi without pubescent sole; forecoxal cavities closed behind.”

Chemsak (1965) and Linsley & Chemsak (1976) described the pronotum as having the “hind angles acute, produced over humeri.” However, the posterolateral angles are not acute in any specimen examined by us.