Description: This species is generally light brown to brown in color. The crown is white with a dark brown medially interrupted anterior marginal line, which may be reflexed at the median break. There is a dark brown, brown or brown to mandarin orange transverse band between the ocelli, which varies considerably in outline. The eyes are brown, and the face is light brown to brown with several dark brown lines below the coronal margin. The female pronotum anterior portion is white or yellow-orange, while the posterior part is orange. The male pronotum is golden yellow. The scutellum is white, with the anterior portion having three brown quadrate areas. The female forewings are dark brown with few gray spots. The male forewings have the claval veins golden yellow, the remaining veins dark brown, and there are some brown spots in the posterior ventral area. The abdominal terga are dorsally brown, laterally yellow, and the sterna are brown. The pygofer is yellow with a dark brown oblique bar near the posterior third, and the plates are yellow with the posterior medial brownish area yellow; the ovipositor is brownish-yellow. The male subgenital plates are triangular with five or more large lateral setae. The female pregenital sternite has the posterior margin straight. Adult males are 5.2-6.2 mm long, while females are 6.2-7.0 mm. (Barnett 1976)
For additional images of this species, see: 3I, BG. |
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