silveirai species-group

Diagnosis. Moderate-sized species, body length ranges from 9.3-11.5; integument bright metallic green; yellow marks in females, when present, limited to clypeus and trochanters; body sparsely punctate leaving large, polished spaces between punctures especially on front and vertex (distance between punctures approximately equal to or wider than 1 DO); metapostnotum finely reticulate, sometimes almost polished and with a weak median carina; dorsoapical teeth of pro and mesotibia greatly asymmetric, the upper one much longer, mainly on females; graduli present on T2 to T4.

Male: Apical margin of T7 gently emarginate to almost straight with a short median angular projection; preapical margin of S5 without acute processes, apical margin broadly emarginate or deeply notched medially (Figures 6 D-E, 8D-E).