Originally described in

Memoirs of the Carnegie  Museum , 1(4):508.

Diagnosis

Midlobe of mesoscutum with posterior 1/3 with engraved reticulation; median propodeum including submedian grooves and anterolateral foveas smooth and shiny, and with lateral margins of submedian grooves distinctly curved; femora white, yellowish-white, pale brown or dark brown; hind tibial spur 0.27-0.29X as long as length of hind tarsus and usually with apical part dark brown (specimens with white femora also with white spur); scutellum circular and slightly transverse, 0.9X as long as wide. This is a variable species in colours, but the distinctive characters of this species: the short and wide scutellum, the strong hind tibial spur, and the shape of the median propodeum with strongly curved outer margins of submedian grooves, should make it possible to identify the species. See also ichnivorus, spicatus and ticus.

Distribution

Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Panama,  Peru, Saint Vincent, Trinidad & Tobago.

Biology

From various leafminers: Brachys sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae); Callimicra sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae); Evippe sp. (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae); Hylaeogena sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Leiopleura sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae); Leucoptera coffeellae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae); Norape sp. (Lepidoptera: Megalopygidae), Natada pucara and N. subpectinata (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae), Pachyschelus sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae); Uroplata sp. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae); Xenochalepus erythroderus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Hyperparasitoid on Microgasterinae indet. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on larva of Lerema liris (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae); from an unidentified braconid on Hispoleptis diluta (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). From Dialecta sp. (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) on Cordia alliodora (Boraginaceae).

Similar species in Lucid key

amplus but aeneicollis with short hind tibial spur, LS/LT = 0.27-0.29< /FONT > .

citrus but aeneicollis with anterior part of scutellum narrower, ratio width of scutellum at narrowest part/widest part = 0.6, with hind tibial spur longer, LS/LT = 0.27-0.29. < /FONT >

ticus but aeneicollis with shorter petiole, LP/WP = 0.8, and with a shorter hind tibial spur, LS/LT = 0.27-0.29. < /FONT >

livens but aeneicollis with shorter hind tibial spur, LS/LT = 0.27-0.29.< /FONT >