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tanypygus 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. 82:328.

Diagnosis

Female scape yellowish-brown; mesoscutum black with metallic blue and purple tinges with raised and rather weak reticulation, scutellum golden-green with engraved and very weak reticulation; femora pale brown; female gaster long and slender, MM/LG = 0.6; first gastral tergite with round punctures in medioposterior ½. Similar to macropygus but frons metallic dark purple, scutellum golden-green and femora pale brown.

Distribution

Costa Rica.

Biology

Unknown.

Similar species in Lucid key

None.

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Depository of primary type

Natural History Museum (BMNH), in London.