female lateral habitus

Diagnostic features of adult wasp: Body length 4.0-5.0 mm; head bright orange; mandible strongly twisted; clypeus coarsely rugose and bulging; occipital carina complete; wings clear; propodeum areolate-rugose to rugose; hind coxa bi-colored, yellowish white basally, brown to black apically; tarsal claw with large basal lobe; dorsopes absent; ventral borders of first metasomal tergite completely joined along basal ½ of segment; ovipositor 1.7-2.0 x longer than first metasomal tergite; tergite 2 often with white elongate-oval marking extending onto base of tergite 1.

Photographer: Scott Shaw. Publisher: Dyer, Lee.