Acanthoscelio americanus Ashmead
Acanthoscelio americanus Ashmead, 1893: 236. Original
description.
Acanthoscelio americanus: Kieffer, 1926: 301.
Description, keyed.
Acanthoscelio americanus: Masner & Muesebeck, 1968:
31. Type information.
Acanthoscelio americanus: Masner, 1976: 15.
Type information.
Description: Acanthoscelio americanus was first described
in Ashmead (1893).
Length 3 mm. Opaque,
coarsely rugose; antennae, post-scutellar (metanotal) spine, legs
except the black coxae,
and the lateral margins of the abdomen, brownish-yellow; wings
fuscous, yellowish-hyaline
at base.
The same description was given in Kieffer (1926).
Distribution and Habitat:
Type information: Holotype (female) in USNM (23722); each antennae
with only 5 segments
remaining. Chapada, Brazil. November.
Homotype (female) in CNCI (OSUC 110444). Jatai, Goias, Brazil.
November.