Genus Aprivesa Melichar

Genus Aprivesa Melichar 1923: 144
Type species: Aprivesa exuta Melichar 1898

Known species: Three species are known, the type species from Queensland and NSW, A. varipennis Muir from Western Australia and South Australia and A. pronotalis (Distant) from western NSW.

Notes: The narrow tegmina with the costal margin almost parallel to the sutural margin is distinctive within the Australian fauna. Epithalamium moirae also has narrow tegmina but is much smaller than species of Aprivesa. In creating this genus and differentiating it from Privesa Stål, Melichar (1923) described the shape of the frons as having an angulate margin near to the antennae with the margin then extending in a straight line to its junction with the clypeus while species of Privesa had the frons evenly curved all the way to the clypeus. This is a slight overexaggeration of the shape of the lateral margin of the frons (see images below). There is a slight outward bulge slightly below the antennae but this is not angulate. Fletcher (2008) transferred Privesa pronotalis into Aprivesa leaving Privesa as a primarily Afrotropical and Madagascan genus.

A. exuta, face

A. pronotalis, face

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