Tridemula metabates Wygodzinsky Figs. 20, 21 Tridemula metabates Wygodzinsky, 1956: 211, figs. 121–132 Material examined. AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: 1 Ψ, near Mangrove Mtn., Hawkesbury District, 33.3o S 151.2o E, 27 August 1956, D. K. McAlpine (AM). Queensland: 1 Ψ, 26°32′S 152°41′E Brooloo SF, S Gympie Coonoon Gibber Ck., rainforest (AM). Victoria: 1 ɗ, Toorloo Arm, Lakes Entrance, 37.9o S 147.9o E, 22 July 1964, D. H. Colless (ANIC). Diagnosis. Recognized in Australia by the following character states: posterior lobe of the pronotum without medial tubercle on the posterior margin (Fig. 21 C), mostly stramineous laterally below carina; first segment of labium stramineous to milky. Distribution. New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Lord Howe Island (Fig. 20).

Published as part of Tatarnic, Nikolai J., Wall, Michael A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2011, A systematic revision of the Australian ploiarioline thread-legged assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 2762 on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203726