Halticus

Usually small and robust, macropterous or coleopteroid. Body generally black, sometimes with paler yellow, orange, red, or brown colouring on head, antennae, and legs, rarely uniformly brown. Head transverse and short, ranging from broader than tall to taller than broad; frons and vertex with faint creases radiating from centreline; vertex with transverse sulcus, posterior margin carinate, concave, generally broader than anterior of pronotum. Eyes sometimes wrapping around pronotum, sometimes touching. Pronotum trapezoidal (macropterous) to subrectangular (coleopterous), weakly declivent, laterally sloping, collar thin and flat to absent. Surface and vestiture variable, generally glossy, sometimes wholly impunctate, in others pronotum shallowly punctate. Body generally with two forms of setae – thin and simple and white, flat, and scale-like; antennae and legs with short semi-erect spines and spine-like setae. Length of first labial segment less than gena height.

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