Key to Australian species of Brephilydia

1. Dorsal surface of mandible and clypeus covered with relatively long, dense golden hairs; frontoclypeal suture broadly angulate (Fig. 5E); antennal scape in male extends to or beyond anterior angles or pronotum; distributed in New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland ...................... B. jejuna

–. Dorsal surface of mandible and clypeus almost glabrous, rarely with very sparse and short hairs; frontoclypeal suture forming a roughly 90° angle (Fig. 5D); antennal scape in male almost never reaches anterior angles or prothorax; distributed in northern Queensland .......... B. fearni sp. nov.