And yet, while Vubben spoke of equanimity, my/our basal segment kept trying to stop, turn its feet around, and carry us away!

The abdomen is rather dark fuscous, mixed laterally with white and on edges of two basal segments.

The three basal tarsal segments are more expanded in the male than the female.

The posterior and basal segments are always more affected, but the distribution is even less homogeneous.

Both basal segments of the antenna are reddish yellow.

The head is scaled and brown, although it is cream while between the basal segments of the antennae.

The head, collar, thorax, and two basal segments of the abdomen are reddish brown.

In the pupae, one or two fixed basal abdominal segments.

The abdomen is grey, while the two basal segments are whitish-ochreous.

They tunnel downward into the basal segments of the host plant.