S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 46/1. (Budapest, 1985)

and metanotum widely rounded laterally, increasingly wide. Median carinae on pronotum raising anteriorly. Abdomen strongly narrowing posteriorly. Lateral margin of laterotergites straight or slightly convex, posterolateral angles rounded, tooth on lateral margin of laterotergite 8 recognizable Tip of segment 10 much surpassing that of 8 and 9, former the shortest. Segment 9 widening pos­teriorly, laterotergite narrowing apically. Material examined: Aggtelek, Diósjenö (Hungary). Figs 1-6. Aradus versicolor, antennae (1-3) and habituses (4-6). 1, 4 = L 2, 5 = L 3, 6 = L Fourth instar larva (Figs 2,4): Variegate reddish or yellowish brown, antennái joint 4, vertex and clypeus, median or midlateral part of meso- and metanotum brown, antennái joints 1-2 and basis of 3 brownish yellow, 3 yellow as well as antenniferous tubercle, intraocular carina and partly the granulation. Head about 0.8 times as long as wide, preocular tubercle not sharply point­ed, postocular tubercle low. Antenna strong, both joints 2 and 3 thickening apically . Relative length of antenna! joints 1 to 4 as 16:18:30:36. Rostrum reaching beyond hind border of p roste mum . Pro­notum almost 3.5 times as wide as long, lateral margin serrate, convex, posterolateral angle sharply rounded. Median carinae converging posteriorly. Lateral margin of laterotergites straight or slightly convex, with some larger and brown granules medially, posterolateral angles rounded or (7-8) sharply rounded. Laterotergite 8 surpassing narrowing 9, with brown tooth medially, seg­ment 10 reaching beyond both.

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