L. Conradt

Description

Length of the female about 12 millimeters. Front gray pollinose, frontal callosity as wide as the front, shining black, about as high as broad, angulate above; face with a prominent shining callus, palpi yellow. Antenna yellow except the annulate portion of the third segment which is dark, basal extension of the third segment slender, reaching half the length of the segment. Thorax yellow dorsally with a black band between the wing attachments scutellum black; front femur yellow with a brown apex, front tibia yellow basally, otherwise brown, front tarsus dark brown, middle leg all yellow except the tarsus which is pale brown, hind femur yellow, brown at the apex, hind tibia and tarsus dark brown nearly black. Wing clear black with a pale yellowish area which includes the second basal cell and basal parts of the discal, first, fourth and fifth posterior, first submarginal and a small area in the marginal cell. See Figure 4. Abdomen dorsally, first segment. pale, following segments each dark on the anterior half and pale on the posterior half.[Label 1] Dichelacera caloptera Hine; [Label 2] TypeNo. 49752 U.S.N.M.; [Label H] Holotype; [Label 3] state of Colima Mex; [Label 4] LConradt coll3 Mar 20161

Record Contributed By

NMNH - Entomology Dept

Record Harvested From

Smithsonian Institution