Phimodera

Body dark brown, elliptical, slightly convex. Head subquadrate, less than half the breadth of the pronotum. Antenna brown, length 1.5 mm; first, second, and third segments each 0.25 mm, fourth segment 0.30 mm, fifth segment 0.45 mm; first three segments of equal length, fourth segment two-thirds as long as the fifth. Pronotum with a transverse furrow on anterior part, which is transversely rugulose. Scutellum covering the whole of the abdomen and almost the whole of the hemelytra, with two longitudinal lines, the middle one very dark, the other two light, extending from the anterior border. Pygophore with dorsal margin very broad, covered with fine setae; ventral rim bearing numerous short stout setae. Paramere small, stem drawn out into a blunt apex, with a square projection below apex forming a shallow hook, 13 to 18 setae along apical half of stem, very minute setae on undersurface of apex. Theca large and cylindrical; median penal lobes stout cylindrical, apically broadly rounded, basally fused in a U around apex of vesica.

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