Acanthoscelio flavipes Ashmead, 1893:  236.  Original description.
Acanthoscelio flavipes:  Kieffer, 1926:  301.  Description, keyed.
Acanthoscelio flavipes:  Masner, 1976:  15.  Type information.

Description:  Acanthoscelio flavipes was first described in Ashmead (1893).

Length 3.4 mm. Black, coarsely, deeply punctate; antennae, except the 6-jointed club, the palpi, the legs, including coxae, metathorax (propodeum), first abdominal segment and the lateral margins of the second and third, reddish-yellow.  Head subglobose, as wide as the thorax, with a frontal ridge, coarsely rugoso-punctate. Eyes very large, round. Mandibles black, curved, with a tooth within.  Antennae 12-jointed, clavate, very short; first funicular joint not longer than the pedicel; second not longer than wide; third and fourth transverse; club large, 6-jointed, black, the joints transverse.  Thorax ovoid, the mesonotum without furrows.  Scutellum quadrate, elevated posteriorly, the angles acutely produced. Metascutellum (metanotum) produced into a large, erect spine.  Metathorax ridged at the sides with the angles toothed.  Wings fulginous, the basal one-third yellow, the venation similar to Scelio.  Abdomen elongate oval, rugulose; first segment transverse, a little shorter than the second; third very slightly longer than the second; fourth very slightly shorter; fifth about one-half the length of the fourth; the following very short.

The same description was given in Kieffer (1926).

Distribution and Habitat:

Type information:  Holotype (female) in ZMHU (19952).  Metasoma glued on green locality label.  Head reglued to mesosoma (very crudely).  Left antennae with only basal four antennomeres remaining.  Bogota, Colombia.