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The original species description is presented here in text form.
Girault, A.A. 1917. Three new chalcid flies from North America. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 12:85-87.
Elachistus sanninoideae new species.
Female: In the table of species runs to hyphantriae Crawford
but differs in that all the coxae are black, the abdomen is entirely
black except slightly above at base and the mandibles are dentate
(six teeth). Scape dusky at tip, the flagellum black. Club 2-
jointed, not nippled. The male is similar but the yellow area on
the abdomen is distinct (basal fourth except the margins) and
the scape is concolorous and foliaceously dilated ventrad.
One male, four females reared from the pupa of Sanninoidea
exitiosa at Fayetteville, Arkansas, July 23 (G. Becker).
Types: Catalogue No. 20758, U. S. National Museum, one
male, four females on tags, a male and female head and female
hind legs on a slide.
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Girault, A.A. 1917. Three new chalcid flies from North America. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 12:85-87.
Schauff, M.E. 1985. Revision of the nearctic species of Hyssopus Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 93(3):1096-1108.
Solomon, J.D. 1995. Guide to Insect Borers of North American broadleaf trees and shrubs. Agric. Handbook. 706. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 735p.
Underhill, G.W. 1935. The pecan tree borer on dogwood. Journal of Economic Entomology 28:393-396.
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