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Halotydeus destructor, an important crop pest in Australia, New Zealand and southern Africa, is redescribed. Early confusion surrounding authorship of the species is clarified and the sequence of setal addition during ontogeny is compared with that of other eupodoids. For the first time, the active immature stases (larva and three nymphs) are characterised and an eupodoid aedeagus is illustrated.
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