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Plazi
Description (based on Leschen and Beutel 2010). Total length 1.25–3.04 mm . Body elongate, dorsally slightly convex and ventrally flattened. Surface glabrous with vestiture of erect, suberect, or decumbent setae; foveae on head (between the antennal insertion and the eye, see Lawrence and Hlavac 1979 ), pronotum, and ventrites (figs 24–28), lacking tubercles or well-developed ridges; punctation consisting of large macropunctures dorsally (figs 22, 23, 31, 33) and smaller micropunctures dorsally and ventrally; surfaces with microsculpture (mostly apparent in dissections using compound microscope, see fig 33). Color variable. Head slightly declined and not srongly prognathous, not abruptly constricted to form a neck; temples, transverse occipital ridge and stridulatory files absent. Antennal insertions more or less exposed in dorsal view; antennal grooves absent. Compound eyes finely facetted; interfacetal setae present; two ocelli present (absent in some species). Mandible bidentate without well-developed mola and prostheca. Corporotentorium without median process. Prothorax quadrate to transverse. Pronotum with lateral carinae complete, weakly to strongly explanate, with or without a distinct bead and not dentate along entire margin. Procoxal cavities open. Protrochantin exposed with cavities strongly transverse and externally open, but narrowly so by acute hypomeral processes. Elytra with 10 punctate rows or striae, plus scutellary striole; suture not deflected at apex; epipleuron present in apical third (ending at level of metaventrite). Mesoventrite with paired procoxal rests (fig 24). Mesocoxae conical. Tibial apices with an apical comb of spines; tarsomeres 1–3 lobed below. Abdominal ventrites 1 and 2 connate (fig 28), lateral pores and canals present. Ovipositor short with short styli.