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graciliventris (Girault)

Antenna lateral, female.

Head frontal, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female lectotype.

Propodeum dorsal, female.

Gaster dorsal, female.

Originally described in

Entomological News, 27:224.

Diagnosis

Femora yellowish-brown; mesoscutum and scutellum black with metallic blue and purple tinges, mesoscutum with raised and weak reticulation, midlobe with posterior ½ with engraved reticulation, scutellum with engraved and very weak reticulation; tibiae yellowish-white; female gaster long and slender, MM/LG = 0.6; first gastral tergite with punctures in medioposterior ½.< /FONT >

Distribution

Trinidad & Tobago.

Biology

From eggs of an unidentified cassidid beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).

Similar species in Lucid key

None.

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Depository of primary type

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