ABSTRACT
Larvae are lightly sclerotized, grublike. Head small, prognathous, reduced; antenna short, sensorium as long as segment 3; labrum fused to head capsule, forming an inarticulate plate; mandibles narrowly elongate, flattened, fused to head capsule; maxilla reduced to a 3-segmented palpus; labium elongate, palpus 2segmented. Legs short, 5-segmented, tarsungulus present. Tergite 9 with pair of small urogomphi. Tergite 10 obsolescent. Spiracles biforous, on mesothorax and abdominal segments 1-8; closing apparatus present.
