Originally described in

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 73:73.

Diagnosis

Antennal scrobes join below frontal suture; mesoscutum with engraved and weak reticulation; scutellum with engraved and very weak reticulation; mesoscutum black with metallic bluish-purple tinges, scutellum metallic dark purple; propodeal callus with four setae; femora metallic bluish-green, tibiae dark brown; propodeum with anterolateral foveas indistinctly delimited.

Distribution

USA (North Carolina).

Biology

From Chrysobothris femorata (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) and Oncideres cingulata (Say) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Hyperparasitoid.

Similar species in Lucid key

brachyurus, but carolinensis with gaster with apex pointed and gaster longer, MM/LG = 0.9< /FONT > .