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Idolopsalis Borelli, 1910 Diagnosis. Body colour ranges from dark brown to black; antennae range from light to dark brown; eyes relatively large, but shorter than the length of head behind them; pronotum longer than wide, quadrate or transverse; metanotum transverse, with a convex posterior margin; apterous; abdomen fusiform, more or less depressed dorsoventrally; with glandular folds on third and fourth abdominal segments; male forceps remote, whereas the forceps of the female are contiguous; pygidium vertical. Male genitalia vary, with a virga within the penis lobe strongly sclerotized, with or without a membranous flange on inner margin (adapted from Borelli 1910; Brindle 1971; Steinmann 1989).
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