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tanus Hansson

Antenna lateral, female.

Head frontal, female.

Vertex, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female holotype.

Propodeum dorsal, female.

Gaster dorsal, female.

Originally described in

Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Vol. 82:327.

Diagnosis

Mesoscutum black with weak metallic blue tinges, with raised and weak reticulation, midlobe with posterior ¼ with engraved reticulation; scutellum black with golden tinges, with engraved and weak reticulation; femora dark brown with metallic blue tinges; tibiae yellowish-brown to pale brown; female gaster short and ovate with apex rounded, with first tergite large, covers 0.7X the length of gaster, and with punctures in medioposterior ½. See also obscuricrus.

Distribution

Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago.

Biology

Unknown.

Similar species in Lucid key

None.

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Depository of primary type

Natural History Museum (BMNH), in London.