Tepperia sterculiae Lea, 1903

Tepperia sterculiae Lea, 1903 View in CoL

( Figs. 1–11 View FIGURES 1–6 View FIGURES 7–11 )

Tepperia sterculiae Lea, 1903: 660 View in CoL (type locality: “N.S.W”; “on the “Kurrajong” Sterculia sp. ”); Froggatt, 1905: 228 (biology: seed feeder of Brachychiton populneus View in CoL ); Hustache, 1936: 253 (cataloged); Marshall, 1936: 195 (in key; designated as the type species of Tepperia View in CoL ); Pullen et al., 2014: 270 (cataloged).

Diagnosis. This species is closely similar to T. major Lea, 1903 but can be distinguished from the latter by having the wider frons and pronotum depressed in apical part ( Marshall 1936).

Supplementary description. Male. Habitus, rostrum, meso- and metaventrites, and venter as in Figs. 1–4 & 6 View FIGURES 1–6 .

Thorax. Ventral surface of elytra ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1–6 ) with submarginal ridges sublinear in ventral aspect, not arched anteriorly, with two asymmetric files on apico-internal part.

Terminalia ( Figs. 7–11 View FIGURES 7–11 ). Tergite VII ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 7–11 ) with two distorted rows of setiferous sclerites. Rectum with weakly sclerotized rectal ring. Endophallus ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 7–11 ) with tubular copulatory sclerite. Tegminal ring ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 7–11 ) with weakly sclerotized parameroid lobes, which are fused basally; diameter of tegminal ring longer than its apodeme. Sternite VIII ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 7–11 ) composed of two narrowly separated sublunate sclerites; spiculum relictum present, slightly sclerotized ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 7–11 ). Spiculum gastrale ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 7–11 ) with apical arms short, widely divergent.

Material examined. 1 male, “ Australia ” (handwritten on a white card), “ Samml. K.F.Hartmann / Ankauf 1941.1” (typed on a blue card), and “Staatl. Museum für / Tierkunde Dresden” (typed on a white card) ( SMTD) ; 1 male, “Clarence” (handwritten on a white card), “ N. S. Wales /15176” (typed and partially handwritten on a blue card), and “Staatl. Museum für / Tierkunde Dresden” (typed on a white card) ( SMTD) .

Remarks. The elytro-tergal stridulatory organ and terminalia of female were not examined.