Originally described in

Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Vol. 82:280.

Diagnosis

Mesoscutum dark golden-green with raised and rather strong reticulation, midlobe with posterior 1/3 with engraved reticulation, notauli as distinct and curved grooves in posterior ½; scutellum metallic dark purple; propodeum with a very narrow median carina, LC/WC = 12.5, and submedian grooves 4.1X as wide as median carina; petiole short, 0.6X as long as wide in female, 1.0X in male; notauli as strong and curved grooves in posterior ½; female gaster elongate, MM/LG = 0.5. Similar to avarus but with distinctly smaller meshes on mesoscutum and scutellum.

Distribution

Bolivia.

Biology

From eggs of an unidentified Orthoptera on sugar cane (Sacharum officinarum) (Poaceae).

Similar species in Lucid key

avarus, but oviesus with mesoscutum dark golden-green, gaster longer, MM/LG = 0.5< /FONT > .