Achrysocharoides asperulus

FEMALE. Length 1.3 mm. Scape white with apical ¼ brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown with metallic tinges. Frons below frontal suture golden-green, above frontal suture metallic bluish-green (Fig. 6). Vertex metallic bluish-purple, golden-red inside ocellar triangle. Mesoscutum, scutellum and propodeum metallic bluish-green with red tinges (Fig. 7). Fore coxa white, mid and hind coxae dark and metallic; femora, tibiae and tarsi white, ventral part of fore and mid femora, dorsal part of hind femur, and basal ½ of mid tibia pale brown. Forewing hyaline. Petiole black with metallic purple tinges. Gastral tergites 1+2 metallic bluish-green, remaining tergites metallic dark purple. Frons with raised and strong reticulation (Fig. 3). Vertex smooth, inside ocellar triangle with raised and strong reticulation (Fig. 4). Occipital margin with sharp carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 4). Ratios: length of flagellomeres I/II/III/IV/V (excl. spicule) 1.0/1.2/1.2/1.0/1.0. Pronotum with a strong transverse carina close to posterior margin (Fig. 5). Meso- scutum with raised and strong reticulation; notaular depressions smooth and shiny (Fig. 5). Scutellum with raised and strong reticulation, median 1/5 smooth (Fig. 5). Axillae reticulate with anterior 1/3 smooth and shiny (Fig. 5). Dorsellum flat with two foveae anterolaterally (Fig. 5). Forewing speculum closed below. Propodeum medially with two irregular longitudinal carinae which are ±parallel; propodeal callus with three setae (Fig. 5). Petiole 0.6× as long as wide, with weak sculpture. Gaster oval-shaped. MALE. Unknown.

Costa Rica.