female lateral habitus

Diagnostic features of adult wasp: Body length 4.1-4.8 mm; antenna with 34-37 flagellomeres; head color black dorsally, light orangish brown ventrally; malar space 1.5 x basal width of mandible, ocelli small, ocell-ocular distance 1.7 x width of lateral ocellus; occipital carina broken at vertex; mesopleuron granulate; apex of hind tibia with setae normal, not flattened; propodeum mostly rugulose-granulate, with median propodeal carina complete; tarsal claw simple; metasomal terga 1-4 entirely dark brown to black, without off-white spots markings; metasomal tergum 3 sculpture varying from entirely granulate to entirely costulate, median carina incomplete; ovipositor length about equal to length of hind basitarsus, varying from 0.9-1.1 x hind basitarsus length.

Photographer: Scott Shaw. Publisher: Dyer, Lee.