Original description

Kerrich, G.J. 1973. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natutal History), 29:190.

Synonyms

None.

Diagnosis

Scape yellowish-white, pedicel yellowish-brown; eyes large, ratio of distance beween eyes at the level of anterior ocellus/width of head= 0.41; vertex, mesoscutum, scutellum and propodeum bright metallic bluish-green; scutellum with weak engraved reticulation in anterior 3/4, meshes elongate and diverging posteriorly, posterior 1/4 smooth; posterior margin of dorsellum tridentate; propodeum with a median groove, narrow throughout, submedian carinae along margins of median groove ± distinct; petiole about as long as wide; first gastral tergite smooth.

Distribution

Belize.

Biology

From egg mass of Exophthalmus vitticollis Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).

Depository of primary type

Holotype female in Natural History Museum (BMNH), London, England.