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Subfamily Penthimiinae

Penthimiines are round squat insects with the tegmina reaching just to the end of the abdomen and usually slightly overlapping. The shape of the head is quite distinctive with the crown curved down to overlap the top of the face which is transversely concave, as if the front margin of the head has been pulled downward. Some of the species are beautifully marked with filigree patterns in an enamel-smooth surface on the head and pronotum. None is known to be of economic importance in Australia.

Dietrich and Rakitov (2002) proposed that this group be treated as a tribe of the subfamily Deltocephalinae, along with the Paraboloponinae, Eupelicinae, Koebeliinae and Selenocephalinae.

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Document 7554, submitted 16 July 2008
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