Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): a second species of Hypolepida Britton, 1978 Author Allsopp, Peter G. text Zootaxa 2020 2020-02-21 4742 3 595 600 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4742.3.13 a3e3eefb-67d7-4675-b8f1-7f0f066fbbf9 1175-5326 3677947 60E1403E-8CDB-4970-A836-37CCC6BC40EC Hypolepida Britton, 1978 ( Figs. 1–10 ) Hypolepida Britton 1978: 36 (original description); Houston & Weir 1992: 308 (catalogue); Weir et al . 2019: 493 . Type species . Hypolepida wilsoni Britton, 1978 , by original designation. Diagnosis. Melolonthini ( sensu Weir et al. 2019 ) with: head, pronotum and elytra black, contrasting with brown elytra ( Figs. 1 , 7 ); antennae with 10 antennomeres with a 6-lamellate or 7-lamellate club in male ( Figs. 3 , 8 ); profemora and protibiae, head, pronotum, scutellum and elytra with elongate, flattened, adpressed setae ( Fig. 2 ), head and disc of pronotum without long setae, pronotal hypopleura with long setae, without circular white scales contained within their punctures on either dorsal or ventral surfaces; terminal palpomere of maxillary palp with an obvious dorsal flat area; anterior face of clypeus with ratio of greatest width to mid length 4–6:1; upper surface of clypeus not deeply concave but with slightly reflexed anterior margin, outline broadly rounded; junctions between abdominal ventrites 1–5 much less obvious in the middle than on the sides; anterior edge of metafemora not concave near base; both spurs of metatibia slender, upper one slightly longer than lower; claws with a tooth on the concave side; male parameres bilaterally symmetrical ( Figs. 4–5 , 9–10 ).