Originally described in

Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Vol. 82:179.

Diagnosis

Antennal scrobes join below frontal suture; vertex with a complete median groove; scutellum smooth and shiny with very weak traces of reticulation laterally; petiole 2.0X as long as wide; gaster with 1^st tergite distinctly hairy laterally. Similar to leucopterae but with longer petiole and shorter gaster. See also fagus.

Distribution

Costa Rica.

Biology

Unknown.

Similar species in Lucid key

productus, but dryas with scutellum with very weak and engraved reticulation.

missouriensis, but dryas with gaster with first tergite with weak reticulation close to posterior margin.

Depository of primary type

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), in Costa Rica.