Originally described in

Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Vol. 82:297.

Diagnosis

Female flagellum stout and densely setose; mesoscutum and scutellum black with metallic blue tinges, to metallic dark purple, mesoscutum with raised and rather strong reticulation, scutellum with engraved and very weak reticulation; femora dark brown with metallic blue tinges; tibiae dark brown to pale brown; gaster with first tergite with punctures in medioposterior ½. Similar to latrodecti but with longer propodeum and with flagellum densely pilose.

Distribution

Costa Rica.

Biology

From eggs of Mastophora sp. (Arachnida: Araneidae).

Similar species in Lucid key

None.

Depository of primary type

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