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brachythrix Hansson

Antenna lateral, female.

Antenna lateral, male.

Head frontal, female.

Head frontal, male.

Vertex, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female holotype.

Thoracic dorsum, male.

Thoracic dorsum, male paratype.

Propodeum dorsal, female.

Propodeum dorsal, male.

Gaster dorsal, female.

Originally described in

Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Vol. 82:410.

Diagnosis

Vertex with raised and weak reticulation, only slightly more hairy than in “normal” Horismenus, setae short; occipital margin rounded; midlobe of mesoscutum and scutellum with raised and strong reticulation, with sparse setation with short setae; costal cell ventrally with a row of setae in basal ˝; submarginal vein with two setae; first gastral tergite reticulate in posterior 1/3, lateral surface predominantly reticulate. Similar to longicornis but female with shorter antenna and both sexes with a 2-segmented clava.

Distribution

Costa Rica.

Biology

Unknown.

Similar species in Lucid key

None.

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Depository of primary type

Natural History Museum (BMNH), in London.