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Deinocerites cancer Theobald 



Deinocerites cancer Theobald, 1901, Mon. Culic, 2:215. 



ADULT FEMALE. — Medium-sized species. Head: Proboscis long, slender, 

 dark scaled; palpi short, dark; antennae much longer than proboscis with the 

 first flagellar segment three times as long as the second and equal in length to 

 the second, third, and fourth segments combined. Occiput clothed with numer- 

 ous coppery-brown erect forked and lanceolate scales. Thorax: Scutum covered 

 by brown lanceolate scales with a coppery sheen; sternopleura shingled with 

 rather broad, coppery scales. Spiracular and postspiracular bristles absent. 

 Abdomen: Dorsum with dark metallic scales, venter tan; terminal segments 

 somewhat compressed, truncate, with large cerci prominently displayed. Legs: 

 All leg scales dark. Wing: Scales narrow, brown. 



ADULT MALE. — Coloration similar to that of female; antennae and palpi 

 similar to those of female, but with first segment of antenna less than twice as 

 long as the second, and not equal in length to the second, third, and fourth 

 segments combined. TERMINALia (Fig. 154). Ninth tergite (IX-T) with 

 dorsal band narrow, curved; lobes (IXT-L) very large, widely separated, 

 heavily sclerotized, flattened and elongate, extending to apical fourth of basi- 

 style, blunt at tip and with numerous small setae on rounded inner surface at 



IXT-L- 



Fig. 154. Deinocerites cancer Theobald. A, Male terminalia. 

 B, Phallosome (side view). 



