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bennetti Schauff

Antenna lateral, female.

Antenna lateral, male.

Head frontal, female.

Head frontal, male.

Vertex, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female paratype.

Thoracic dorsum, male.

Thoracic dorsum, male paratype.

Propodeum dorsal, female.

Propodeum dorsal, male.

Gaster dorsal, female.

Originally described in

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 89:39.

Diagnosis

Female scape yellowish-brown; mesoscutum and scutellum black with golden-blue tinges, mesoscutum with anterior 2/3 with raised reticulation, posterior 1/3 with engraved reticulation, scutellum with engraved and weak reticulation; femora yellowish-brown; female with first gastral tergite with weak striae in posterior ½, or with engraved, weak and large-meshed reticulation, male with 1st gastral tergite with micropunctures or smooth.

Distribution

Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico.

Biology

From eggs of Diaprepes abbreviatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae); from Tetrastichus sp. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) in eggs of citrus weevil; from eggs of Exopthalmus sp. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on citrus ; ex Exopthalmus similis . Probably a hyperparasitoid on Tetrastichus haitiensis (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae).

Similar species in Lucid key

vogti, but bennetti with gaster with first tergite either with weak striae or with very weak reticulation in posterior ½.

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Depository of primary type

United States NationalMuseum of Natural History (USNM), Washington , D.C.