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striatus Hansson

Antenna lateral, female.

Antenna lateral, male.

Head frontal, female.

Head frontal, male.

Vertex, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female paratype.

Thoracic dorsum, male.

Thoracic dorsum, male paratype.

Propodeum dorsal, female.

Propodeum dorsal, male.

Gaster dorsal, female.

Originally described in

Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Vol. 82:323.

Diagnosis

Female scape yellowish-white; male scape 3.4X as long as wide; frons with parts between scrobes and eyes with strong reticulation; occipital margin rounded off; mesoscutum metallic bluish-green with raised and weak reticulation; scutellum metallic dark purple and smooth and shiny; notauli as indistinct triangular grooves posteriorly and posterior ½ of midlobe of mesoscutum hence triangular; femora yellowish-brown; female with petiole 1.3-1.4X as long as wide, in male 2.4X; gaster with 1st tergite with short striae dorsally and laterally.

Distribution

Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Trinidad & Tobago.

Biology

From an unidentified gall on Epiphyllum sp. (Cactaceae).

Similar species in Lucid key

None.

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Depository of primary type

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