Tepperia sterculiae Lea 1903

Tepperia sterculiae Lea, 1903 (Figs. 1–11) Tepperia sterculiae Lea, 1903: 660 (type locality: “N.S.W”; “on the “Kurrajong” Sterculia sp. ”); Froggatt, 1905: 228 (biology: seed feeder of Brachychiton populneus); Hustache, 1936: 253 (cataloged); Marshall, 1936: 195 (in key; designated as the type species of Tepperia); Pullen et al., 2014: 270 (cataloged). Diagnosis. This species is closely similar to T. major Lea, 1903 but can be distinguished from the latter by having the wider frons and pronotum depressed in apical part (Marshall 1936). Supplementary description. Male. Habitus, rostrum, meso- and metaventrites, and venter as in Figs. 1–4 & 6. Thorax. Ventral surface of elytra (Fig. 5) with submarginal ridges sublinear in ventral aspect, not arched anteriorly, with two asymmetric files on apico-internal part. Terminalia (Figs. 7–11). Tergite VII (Fig. 7) with two distorted rows of setiferous sclerites. Rectum with weakly sclerotized rectal ring. Endophallus (Fig. 8) with tubular copulatory sclerite. Tegminal ring (Fig. 9) with weakly sclerotized parameroid lobes, which are fused basally; diameter of tegminal ring longer than its apodeme. Sternite VIII (Fig. 10) composed of two narrowly separated sublunate sclerites; spiculum relictum present, slightly sclerotized (Fig. 10). Spiculum gastrale (Fig. 11) with apical arms short, widely divergent. Material examined. 1 male, “ Australia ” (handwritten on a white card), “ Samml. K.F.Hartmann / Ankauf 1941.1” (typed on a blue card), and “Staatl. Museum für / Tierkunde Dresden” (typed on a white card) (SMTD); 1 male, “Clarence” (handwritten on a white card), “ N. S. Wales /15176” (typed and partially handwritten on a blue card), and “Staatl. Museum für / Tierkunde Dresden” (typed on a white card) (SMTD). Remarks. The elytro-tergal stridulatory organ and terminalia of female were not examined.