Originally described in

Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Vol. 82:333.

Diagnosis

Midlobe of mesoscutum with posterior 1/3 with engraved reticulation; scutellum wide, 0.9X as long as wide, lateral mesh-rows situated half-way between median groove and lateral margin of scutellum; mesoscutum and scutellum metallic bluish-purple, bluish-green or golden-green; hind tibial spur long, LS/LT = 0.53; propodeum with median carina relatively short and wide, LC/WC = 2.0, with sides rounded. Similar to aeneicollis but with longer petiole and with a longer hind tibial spur; also similar to dorypher but with shorter petiole. See also hylaeus, livens and panamensis.

Distribution

Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru.

Biology

From Dialecta sp. (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) on Cordia alliodora (Boraginaceae); Leiopleura sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) on Ficus sp. (Moraceae); Apanteles(?) (Hymenoptera; Braconidae) from Peleopoda sp. (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) on Elaeis guineensis (Arecaceae).

Similar species in Lucid key

livens, but ticus with flagellum more slender, frons just above frontal suture with very weak reticulation.

aeneicollis, but ticus with longer petiole, LP/WP = 1.0, and with a longer hind tibial spur, LS/LT = 0.53. < /FONT >

amplus, but ticus with mesoscutum and scutellum with same colour.