Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1962 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 152.
MALE—Length 12 mm.; black, tegulae testaceous-hyaline, legs largely brownish-testaceous; eyes slightly convergent below; lateral ocelli subequally distant from eyes and margin of vertex, slightly nearer each other; cheeks slightly narrower than eyes, subcarinate posteriorly, lower margin shallowly excavated, shining and impunctate; clypeus nearly flat, margin nearly straight, with a few, low, obscure crenulations; median tooth of mandible low and inconspicuous; median length of labrum somewhat greater than basal width; vertex and area between eyes and ocelli shining, punctures coarse and close but hardly sparse, face below ocelli becoming abruptly, coarsely rugose, very finely subrugose below antennae beneath the dense pubescence, elypeus rather finely and irregularly rugose; punctures of cheeks shallow, irregular and rather obscure, quite coarse in general; transverse carinae of tubercles well developed, strongly produced at upper end, slightly overlying anterior margin of scutum; hind margin of scutellum nearly straight; axillae elongate triangular, protruding much beyond margin of scutellum; punctures coarse and deep but distinct over most of scutum, becoming contiguous at extreme sides and across anterior margin, scutellum with similar but somewhat closer punctures, pleura very coarsely rugosopunctate beneath tegulae, doubly punctate beneath this, with very large, shallow, well separated punctures, between which there are numerous, fine, scattered punctures; lateral and posterior faces of propodeum dull and densely tessellate, punctures hardly evident, dorsal area smooth and tessellate, becoming irregularly but rather coarsely rugose along upper margin; pubescence whitish, rather elongate and dense on face and clypeus, white and very short but rather dense on cheeks, the hypostomal area with a dense brush of short pubescence; anterior and posterior margins of pleura with a loose, whitish fringe, scutum with a transverse, anterior, tomentose line which is interrupted medially, and scutello-mesothoracic suture with a very narrow, dense line of tomentum; propodeum with rather elongate, thin, whitish pubescence posteriorly and along posterior margins of lateral faces; wings lightly infuscated, recurrent veins reaching 2nd submarginal cell subequally distant from base and apex; coxal spines reduced to triangular, carinate tubercles which are densely fringed posteriorly; transverse grooves of terga 2-4 sub-basal in position, entirely obliterated medially, closely and deeply punctate toward basal margin, but the more apical margin rather broadly impunctate, but disc becoming closely punctate just before the abruptly depressed apical rims, median areas of all terga very sparsely and finely punctate, rims more or less yellowish-hyaline; terga 1-5 with whitish, apical fasciae that are usually entire but somewhat narrowed medially, basal grooves of 4 and 5 also white fasciate, and 6 with a fasciate band across extreme base; tergum 3 with a pair of deep, rounded foveae just posterior to the end of each lateral groove; tergum 6 shining, finely and quite sparsely punctate, very deeply excavated toward tip, the dorsal protuberances triangular, narrowly rounded apically, rather short, the ventral pair elongate, acute, rather strongly compressed, lateral spines well developed (fig. 66); sterna 1-4 with coarse, deep and quite close punctures, apical margins of 2-4 rather abruptly and narrowly depressed, quite strongly white fasciate, 4 somewhat triangular in form, disc with a deep, median emargination lying just above the depressed, testaceous rim which is also shallowly emarginate medially; sternum 5 largely hidden, margin very shallowly incurved and submembraneous; sterna 6 and 8 entirely retracted; tergum 7 largely hidden, rounded, not at all acute medially; gonocoxites of genital armature rather slender, with only scattered, erect, somewhat elongate hairs, slightly exceeding the penis valves in length.
DISTRIBUTION — North Carolina to Florida; July.
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