Originally described in
Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Vol. 82:341.
Diagnosis
Mesoscutum and scutellum metallic bluish-green with purple tinges; mesoscutum with raised and rather strong reticulation, midlobe with posterior 1/3 with engraved reticulation, notauli as narrow and distinct grooves medially; propodeum with submedian grooves reticulate and with median carina with posterior 1/3 reticulate; female gaster long, MM/LG = 0.7. Similar to bryoscapus but with longer petiole and longer median propodeum.
Distribution
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama.
Biology
From Leiopleura sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) on Cecropia sp. (Cecropiaceae); Callimicra sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) on Ficus sp. (Moraceae).
Similar species in Lucid key
bennetti, but vogti with gaster with first tergite with a narrow and weak reticulate band close to posterior margin.
Depository of primary type
United States National