Description: Adults are typically champagne in color. The crown is yellowish-white with a dark brown anterior marginal line and a transverse orange area with a medial anterior projection between the anterior margins of the eyes; the orange area fades toward the posterior. The eyes are garnet brown with a longitudinal white line, and the face is topaz with two complete and several partial dark brown transverse lines below the crown margin. The pronotum is yellow, with a white central cross, posterior marginal border, and oblique lateral areas. The anterior half of the scutellum is yellowish-orange, and the posterior central area is light yellow; each lateral margin has two dark brown and two white spots. The forewings are topaz with a few opalescent and dark brown areas. The coxae are brown. The abdominal terga are dorsally dark brown, laterally yellowish-white, and ventrally white with an L-shaped brown area. The sterna are dark brown on the posterior medial area. The pygofer is a mustard yellow color, with the ovipositor golden-yellow. The male subgenital plates are short, generally triangular, and the lateral and medial margins are parallel in the anterior half, and the large setae are medial. The female pregenital sternite is usually angularly produced posteriorly, and the pygofer is narrow. Adult males are 4.8-6.4 mm long, while females are 5.2-5.3 mm. (Barnett 1976)
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