Notiospathius venezuelae López-Estrada & Zaldívar-Riverón

Female. Colour: Head dark brown to black; orbit surrounding eyes yellow; scape light brown, with a brown stripe; flagellomeres dark brown, last 11 white; palpi white. Mesosoma and first metasomal tergite black except pronotum wich is brown; second metasomal tergite dark brown; third, fourth and fifth metasomal tergites brown with a light brown band at the middle; sixth metasomal tergite dark brown, pale yellow in apex; remaining metasomal tergites pale yellow; ovipositor brown; sheaths pale yellow turning dark brown. Fore and middle coxae and trochanter white, trochantellus brown, femora pale yellow on basal third, brown on apical two thirds, pale yellow apically, tibiae light brown, tarsi brown; hind coxa black, pale yellow apically; trochanter pale yellow; trochantellus brown; femur white to pale yellow on basal third, brown on apical two thirds, pale yellow at extreme apex; tibia pale yellow basally, turning light brown apically; tarsi brown. Wings dusky; veins and stigma brown; tegula light brown. Body length: 4.1 mm (lateral view), ovipositor 1.6 mm. Head: Clypeus rugose; face, frons and vertex striate; temple slightly striate; gena smooth; eye about 1.1 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space 0.2 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.2 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance three times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape twice its width (frontal view); antenna with 28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 2.1 times its maximum height; pronotum coriaceous; pronotal groove wide and coriaceous; propleuron striate; mesoscutal lobes coriaceous; notauli narrow, scrobiculate and with coriaceous microsculpture, not joining, obscuring in a large costate area; scutellar disc coriaceous; mesopleural and subalar sulcus continuous, both scrobiculate; mesopleuron porcate-coriaceous dorsally, coriaceous medially and ventrally; precoxal sulcus narrow, deep and scrobiculated, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma coriaceous; metapleuron and propodeum costate with rugose microsculpture; apical lateral corners with distinct tubercles; spines over hind coxa distinct. Wings: Fore wing length 5.1 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 3.3 times its maximum width; vein r 0.3 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a distinctly antefurcal to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU about 0.5 times length of vein 1M. Legs: hind coxa rugose at the base, striate posteriorly, indistinct tubercule at the base; middle and hind femora coriaceous. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite strongly costate with rugose microsculpture, length 3.2 its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.7 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite slightly costate; suture between second and third metasomal tergites distinct and sinuate; third metasomal tergite smooth; remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 0.7 times length of metasoma. Male. Essentially as female; pronotum light brown; third and fourth metasomal tergites light brown with a honey yellow band at the middle; antenna with 24 flagellomeres dark brown, only last three white.

Female. Colour: Head dark brown to black; orbit surrounding eyes yellow; scape light brown, with a brown stripe; flagellomeres dark brown, last 11 white; palpi white. Mesosoma and first metasomal tergite black except pronotum wich is brown; second metasomal tergite dark brown; third, fourth and fifth metasomal tergites brown with a light brown band at the middle; sixth metasomal tergite dark brown, pale yellow in apex; remaining metasomal tergites pale yellow; ovipositor brown; sheaths pale yellow turning dark brown. Fore and middle coxae and trochanter white, trochantellus brown, femora pale yellow on basal third, brown on apical two thirds, pale yellow apically, tibiae light brown, tarsi brown; hind coxa black, pale yellow apically; trochanter pale yellow; trochantellus brown; femur white to pale yellow on basal third, brown on apical two thirds, pale yellow at extreme apex; tibia pale yellow basally, turning light brown apically; tarsi brown. Wings dusky; veins and stigma brown; tegula light brown. Body length: 4.1 mm (lateral view), ovipositor 1.6 mm. Head: Clypeus rugose; face, frons and vertex striate; temple slightly striate; gena smooth; eye about 1.1 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space 0.2 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.2 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance three times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape twice its width (frontal view); antenna with 28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 2.1 times its maximum height; pronotum coriaceous; pronotal groove wide and coriaceous; propleuron striate; mesoscutal lobes coriaceous; notauli narrow, scrobiculate and with coriaceous microsculpture, not joining, obscuring in a large costate area; scutellar disc coriaceous; mesopleural and subalar sulcus continuous, both scrobiculate; mesopleuron porcate-coriaceous dorsally, coriaceous medially and ventrally; precoxal sulcus narrow, deep and scrobiculated, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma coriaceous; metapleuron and propodeum costate with rugose microsculpture; apical lateral corners with distinct tubercles; spines over hind coxa distinct. Wings: Fore wing length 5.1 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 3.3 times its maximum width; vein r 0.3 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a distinctly antefurcal to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU about 0.5 times length of vein 1M. Legs: hind coxa rugose at the base, striate posteriorly, indistinct tubercule at the base; middle and hind femora coriaceous. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite strongly costate with rugose microsculpture, length 3.2 its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.7 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite slightly costate; suture between second and third metasomal tergites distinct and sinuate; third metasomal tergite smooth; remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 0.7 times length of metasoma. Male. Essentially as female; pronotum light brown; third and fourth metasomal tergites light brown with a honey yellow band at the middle; antenna with 24 flagellomeres dark brown, only last three white.