Genus Chaetophyes Schmidt

Genus Chaetophyes Schmidt 1919: 367
Type species, by monotypy: Chaetophyes bicolor Schmidt, (synonymised with Chaetophyes compacta (Walker) by Maa 1963)

Generic Distribution: Australia, with records from Indonesia (Seram) and Vanuatu that need to be verified.

Australian species: Four species are known from Australia, C. admittens (Walker), C. compacta (Walker), C. pulcherrima Evans and C. vicina Lallemand.

Comments: C. compacta and C. vicina are common and widespread in eastern Australia frequently collected in large numbers in light traps. Most individuals of all species are shiny greenish brown on the head and thorax with extensive dark brown areas on the tegmina, although males of C. compacta are usually entirely dark brown to black, occasionally with green heads and C. pulcherrima has some vague striping on the mesonotum. The anterior prominence of the head, which can be quite snout-like in profile, varies within species.

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