Diagnosis
Morphological – adult
Features include:
- large species
- face with a pair of large oval black spots
- postpronotal lobes yellow to yellow-brown
- notopleura yellow
- scutum dark fuscous with a large irregular red-brown area on posterior region, lateral and medial postsutural vittae absent, mesopleural stripe of medium width extending midway between anterior margin of notopleuron and anterior npl. bristle, yellow triangle extending along anterior margin of mesonotal suture, scutellum usually red-brown
- setae: sc. 2, prsc. absent, a.sa. 1
- wing with a broad fuscous costal band and broad fulvous anal streak, costal cells orange-brown with dense microtrichia covering both cells
- abdominal terga III and IV dull black with orange-brown along posterior margins and tergum V dark fuscous to dull black except for orange-brown medially and along posterior margin, posterior lobe of surstylus short, abdominal sternum V with a slight concavity on posterior margin.
Morphological – larvae
No information available.
Molecular
DNA barcoding
BOLD reference data not available.
PCR-RFLP Test 1
BsrI: Data not available
HinfI: Data not available
HhaI: Data not available
Sau3AI: Data not available
SnaBI: Data not available
SspI: Data not available
Vspl: Data not available
PCR-RFLP Test 2
AluI, DraI, RsaI and SspI provide diagnostic restriction patterns.
AluI: 720-770, 170, 150, 130, 120,110
DraI: 800-750, 270, 220, 180-160
RsaI: 450, 380, 320, 290
SspI: 1100, 380
