Ipomoria

Pascoe

Cerambycinae

Ipomoria Pascoe, 1866: 104. Type species: Ipomoria tillides Pascoe, 1866.

Diagnosis

Small, elongate, clerid-mimicking beetles, brown to black with antennae reaching to middle of elytra. Frontoclypeus transverse. Gland opening at base of mandibles absent. Eyes finely facetted, deeply emarginate. Antennal tubercles broadly separated, removed from mandibular articulation. Antennal foramen depressed. Antennal scape gradually expanded toward apex, distinctly shorter than pronotum; pedicel longer than wide; antennomere 3 shorter than scape. Pronotum longer than wide, distinctly constricted at base forming short peduncle, lateral margins nodulose or with tubercle posterior to middle; pronotal disc punctate or smooth. Prosternal process narrow, not expanded apically. Procoxal cavities oval with shallow lateral extensions; firmly closed externally. Procoxae not or weakly projecting below prosternal process. Mesoventrite flat in front of mesocoxae; mesoventral intercoxal process broad, straight apically. Mesocoxal cavities broadly open to mesepimeron; mesotrochantin visible. Elytral punctures distinct, not in rows, apices rounded. Femora and tibiae not flattened.

Distribution and Biology

The single species is widely distributed from southern-most Queensland to the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. It has not been recorded from Tasmania.

Australian Species

tillides Pascoe
Ipomoria tillides Pascoe, 1866: 105.

References

Pascoe, F.P. 1866. On the longicornia of Australia, with a list of all the described species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9: 80–112.