Generic Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia

Australian species: Two species are known from Australia, M. pugionata from Qld and NT and M. finitima from Qld and PNG.

Comments: The extraordinary extension of the scutellum immediately identifies species of Machaerota from all other Machaerotidae..

Document 2062, submitted 16 January 2003
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