Originally described in

Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Vol. 82:260.

Diagnosis

Eyes large, DE/DO = 4.1; mesoscutum metallic dark purple, midlobe with anterior ½ metallic bluish-green and with raised and weak reticulation, posterior ½ with engraved reticulation, notauli as narrow and distinct grooves in median 1/3; scutellum metallic dark purple; forewing speculum open below. Similar to amadeus but with shorter female petiole; also similar to cupreus but with mesoscutum with anterior ½ of midlobe with raised reticulation and indistinct notauli.

Distribution

Costa Rica.

Biology

From an unidentified lepidopteran leafminer on Naucleopsis naga (Moraceae).

Similar species in Lucid key

None.

Depository of primary type

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