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Extracted from: Sandhouse G. A. New North American Species of Bees Belonging to the Genus Halictus (Chloralictus). No. 2532 - Proceedings U.S. National Museum. Vol. 65, Art. 19.
Appears as Halictus Alius in this excerpt.
Female.—About 5-5.5 mm. long; head and thorax blue-green;
abdomen black; pubescence white. Facial quadrangle somewhat
longer than broad; flagellum rufo-testaceous, paler beneath; front
with rather close shallow punctures, the punctures deeper and more
scattered on the sides of the face; supraclypeal area and upper half
of clypeus delicately punctured ; lower half of clypeus shining black,
coarsely punctured; fringed with yellowish hairs; mandibles red. Thorax clothed with rather abundant pubescence; mesothorax shining, with faint microscopic lineolations and rather close, shallow
punctures; punctation of scutellum similar to that of the mesothorax, two polished spots on the disk; disk of propodeum long,
inclosed by a low rim, shining, microscopically tessellate, with faint,
very irregularly anastomosing rugae; truncation distinct laterally;
tegulae very pale testaceous, impunctate. Abdomen ovate, impunctate; segments 1-2 shining, spri'sely pubescent; segments 3-5 clothed
with dense subappressed hairs. Wings very clear; anterior wing
4.25 mm. long; stigma and nervures very pale testaceous; second
submarginal cell considerably higher than broad, receiving first
recurrent nervure near the apex; third submarginal subquadrate,
little longer than the second on marginal. Legs dark with dull white
hairs; knees, tips of tibiae, and tarsi pale rufo-testaceous; hind spur
pectinate with four moderately long teeth.
Habitat.—La Cueva, Organ Mountains, New Mexico, September 2, at flowers of Nuttallia multijlora (Townsend)
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