Wedge-Shaped Beetles
Rhipiphoridae Laporte, 1840
(after Hangay & Zborowski 2010): Body mostly wedge-shaped, humped and tapered, 3-30mm in length. Brown or black, sometimes with yellow or black and brown patterning. Elytra usually long and pointed, covering abdomen. Males of some species with greatly reduced elytra, females of some species wingless. Head and pronotum strongly deflexed. Antennae usually 11-segmented, in males flabellate, serrate in females. Tarsal formula usually 5-5-4, in larviform females of Rhipidiodes 4-4-4.
Publications
Hangay G, Zborowski P (2010): A Guide to the Beetles of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.