Tremex fuscicornis

Adult female. Body length not given. Head pale brown, usually with blackish areas around ocellar area, vertex, inner and outer orbits, and posterior surface. Thorax black; pronotum largely pale brown to dark brown dorsally, often with irregular blackish marks, sometimes almost entirely black; mesonotum and mesoscutellum rarely marked with pale brown. Forewing pale brownish hyaline, without distinct infuscation; forewing 1.09–1.41 times as long as ovipositor sheath. Hind leg black, with tibia and tarsus brown; basal halves of tibia and tarsomere 1 creamy white; hind tibia 1.08–1.24 times as long as hind tarsomere 1; dorsal margin of hind tibia straight or very shallowly concave. Abdomen black, with pale brown markings: often anterior part of tergum 1, most of tergum 2, usually broad anterior margins of terga 3 and 7, narrow anterior margins of terga 4–6, anterior half of tergum 8, posterior half and ventral part of tergum 9, including most or entire precornal basin, and cornus. Precornal basin short, its length 0.52–0.72 times as long as wide, widest in posterior part. Ovipositor sheath 2.17–2.54 times as long as apical sheath.

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