Myzine tenuicornis, Latreille, 1803

Smith, F., 1859, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the Islands of Aru and Key., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 3, pp. 132-158 : 151-152

1. Myzine tenuicornis .

M. nigra, alis hyalinis, abdomine nitido flavoqe variegato.

Male. length 7 lines. Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, tinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxae most dense and glittering; antennae more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Thorax: the posterior margin of the prothorax, a spot beneath the wings, the tegulae, and the postscutellum yellow; the anterior and intermediate tibiae ferruginous and more or less dusky above, the posterior pair ferruginous beneath. Abdomen shining, the margins of the segments deeply depressed; a small ovate spot on each side of the first segment, the second and three following segments with a narrow stripe on each side in the middle, yellow; the yellow markings obscure; the apical segment coarsely rugose; beneath, the segments are closely and strongly punctured.

Hab. Aru.