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Body varies around 1.25mm in length, and is yellow with brown blotches on the thorax and basal abdominal tergites. The legs are yellow. Antennal segments are brown except for segment 1 which is yellow, segment 2 which is yellowish, and the basal parts of segments 3 and 4 which are yellowish brown fading to brown distally (Nakahara 1994). Forewings are pale gray. The head is moderate in size, antennae are 7 segmented, and the prothorax is moderately covered with long setae. The prothorax has a well-developed pair of anterior setae and the inner posterior pair of setae is about one and a half times longer than the dorsal length of the eye. Along the posterior margin of the prothorax 3 pairs of setae are present between the major pairs (Stannard 1968). There are 3 distal setae present on the forevein of each forewing. Females are macropterous or brachypterous, males are brachypterous (Nakahara 1994). Abdominal tergite 2 has 3 setae on each lateral margin. A complete comb of setae is present on the posterior margin of tergite 8, and tergite 9 has 1 pair of sensilla (Nakahara 1994).