Originally described in

Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Vol. 82:221.

Diagnosis

With distinct colour contrast between mesoscutum and scutellum, mesoscutum with anterior ½ metallic dark purple and posterior ½ metallic dark bluish-green and scutellum bright golden-green; mesoscutum with anterior ½ with raised and rather weak reticulation, posterior ½ with engraved and rather weak reticulation, notauli as narrow and distinct grooves in posterior ½.

Distribution

Costa Rica.

Biology

Unknown.

Similar species in Lucid key

None.

Depository of primary type

Natural History Museum (BMNH), in London.