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Female body length: 3.14–3.71 mm (n=12). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: with at least some obliterated or reduced patches of sculpture posteriorly. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: brown or predominantly brown. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: striplike, broadly concave. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: bulging, often surpassing eye laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: absent (smooth) in parts. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly brown throughout. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly longitudinally rugulose. Sculpture of oxter: with prominent smooth patch. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: none; 1 seta. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2–T5 in female: T2 white, T3–T5 brown. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3–5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2–T5: uniformly thin throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: with patch of short appressed micropilosity.
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Matthew J. Yoder, Alejandro A. Valerio, Andrew Polaszek, Simon van Noort, Lubomír Masner, Norman F. Johnson
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Yoder M, Valerio A, Polaszek A, Noort S, Masner L, Johnson N (2014) Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae) ZooKeys 380: 1–188
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Matthew J. Yoder
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Alejandro A. Valerio
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Andrew Polaszek
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Simon van Noort
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Lubomír Masner
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Norman F. Johnson
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