Characterization of the species based on the original description (Viereck, 1912).
Female. — Length, 2.5 mm; yellowish scape; legs including coxae stramineous, except for the hind tibife, which are reddish, hind tarsi brownish; brownish wings with darker, brownish stigma and veins, with the radius about half as long as the transverse cubitus; rather reticulately rugose propodeum; rugulose first dorsal plate which is apparently a little narrower at apex than at base, at least twice as long as wide at base, and apparently wider in the middle than at base or apex; second plate a little shorter down the middle than the first plate is wide at apex, nearly four times as wide at apex as long down the middle, rather spindle shaped, and longitudinally striate; third, dorsal segment dullish and brownish except for a yellowish spot on each side and a little longer than the second plate; first, second, and most of third ventral segments as well as the prominent hypopygium more or less stramineous. The allotype agrees fairly well with the type except in the second plate which is about as long as the first is wide at apex, trapezoidal not spindle shaped and about three times as wide along its straight apical edge as long down the middle; in the apex of the first plate being distinctly narrower than the base and in the hypopygium being dark brown to blackish while the rest of the venter is mostly stramineous.
Type-locality: Anglesea, New Jersey. Type. Cat. No. 14729, U.S.N.M. Both specimens are labeled, "reared in July from Choreutis cardinella, W. D. Kearfoot, No. 60."
Characterization of the species based on the original description (Viereck, 1912).
Female. — Length, 2.5 mm; yellowish scape; legs including coxae stramineous, except for the hind tibife, which are reddish, hind tarsi brownish; brownish wings with darker, brownish stigma and veins, with the radius about half as long as the transverse cubitus; rather reticulately rugose propodeum; rugulose first dorsal plate which is apparently a little narrower at apex than at base, at least twice as long as wide at base, and apparently wider in the middle than at base or apex; second plate a little shorter down the middle than the first plate is wide at apex, nearly four times as wide at apex as long down the middle, rather spindle shaped, and longitudinally striate; third, dorsal segment dullish and brownish except for a yellowish spot on each side and a little longer than the second plate; first, second, and most of third ventral segments as well as the prominent hypopygium more or less stramineous. The allotype agrees fairly well with the type except in the second plate which is about as long as the first is wide at apex, trapezoidal not spindle shaped and about three times as wide along its straight apical edge as long down the middle; in the apex of the first plate being distinctly narrower than the base and in the hypopygium being dark brown to blackish while the rest of the venter is mostly stramineous.
Type-locality: Anglesea, New Jersey. Type. Cat. No. 14729, U.S.N.M. Both specimens are labeled, "reared in July from Choreutis cardinella, W. D. Kearfoot, No. 60."
United States (Florida, Iowa, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia).