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Color when alive yellow with darker margins (Figs 51-52); color when dead yellowish-brown, somewhat darker medially, venter paler than dorsum. Body elongate-ovate, flat. Dorsum with glabrous longitudinal ridge extending from anterior to posterior margin. Pronotum with central area micropustulate, rugose-punctate along anterior and lateral margins. Mesonotum with central area micropustulate, lateral margin punctate. Metanotum with raised central area micropustulate, lateral areas rugose-punctate, without carina or sulcus. Abdominal tergites 1-6 narrowed medially, without carinae near lateral margin, rugose-punctate along lateral margin; spiracles appear as darker brown macula without darker margin; orifice as in Fig. 13. Abdominal tergites 7-10 without carina, punctate along lateral and posterior margins. Venter with surface expansions rugose-striate, micropustulate, without fringe of setae along margins. Head (Fig. 11) with surface rugose-punctate; labrum with surface alutaceous, with row of short setae along anterior margin; clypeus with dense fringe of setae at apex, with four setae on apical
, surface punctate; mandibles tridentate; maxillary palps with two palpomeres and 12 short robust setae at apex; maxilla robust, clavate, with fringe of long setae at apex; labrum densely setose. Antenna with antennomere 1 short, robust; 2 robust, nearly subglobular; 3 elongate, cylindrical, with a few setae at apex. Pro-, meso-, and metasterna wider than long, slightly depressed medially, surface rugose-punctate. Abdominal sternites wider than long, decreasing in length and width; with one sulcus on apical
; laterally with curved sulcus on each side; 9-10 fused, rounded at apex. Leg (Fig. 12) with femur short, robust; tibotarsus subconical, with strong claw and 7 setae at apex. Total length 9.7-10.6 mm; total width 4.7-5.1 mm.
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