The following is a reprint from
Parasitic Bees of the Genus Holcopasites Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) by paul D. Hurd, Jr. and E. Gorton Linsley from Smitsonian Contributions to Zoology # 114
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Holcopasite Apacheorm Neopasites (Neopasites) Pulchells
GEOGRAPHIC RANGE.—Southwestern United States (Arizona and New Mexico).
HOST.—Unknown.
FEMALE.—Head and thorax black, metasoma red; antennae black; mandibles dark reddish brown, rufo-testaceous medially; tegulae dark mahogany red, paler marginally; legs dark reddish brown, hind tibiae ex¬tensively rufotestaceous; calcaria pale rufotestaceous. Vestiture of body chiefly white, mostly closely ap-pressed and forming patches on face about antennal insertions, hind margins of head, mesonotal line, dor¬solateral angles of pronotum, mesoscutum circumfer-entially, mesepisterna, scutellum medially and circum-ferentially, metanotum and propodeum at sides, legs basally and on metasoma, especially on terga; dorsal surfaces of head and mesoscutum anteriorly with an admixture of some golden and reddish golden pubes¬cence. Wings faintly violaceous, rather heavily infus-cated with black apically. Length 7-8 mm. Eyes bare; face above antennae closely and coarsely punctate, neither bigibbosely swollen nor largely impunctate; antennae with first flagellar segment much shorter than combined length of succeeding two segments; anterior and lateral ocelli separated by much less than twice their diameters; interocellar and ocellorbital
distances about equal; rear angle of mandible situ¬ated well behind middle of eye; labrum longitudi¬nally carinate medially, without a thornlike tubercle near base, rather sparsely and irregularly punctate on basal half, and with conspicuous impunctate areas basally; ventral surface of head moderately densely punctate adjacent to hypostomal carinae, without large impunctate areas. Mesoscutum rather coarsely and contiguously punctate throughout; scutellum nearly entire, only weakly indented medially along posterior surface, not prominently bilobed and scarcely elevated posteriorly; metanotum weakly pro¬duced posterolaterally into shelflike processes, mes¬episterna coarsely and contiguously punctate on ver¬tical surface and with an incompletely developed patch of white pubescence dorsally; wing with second submarginal cell not unusually small, more than one-half as long as first submarginal cell when measured along posterior side; spur of middle leg about one-third as long as corresponding basitarsus. Metasomal terga II-IV basally with two spots of white pubes¬cence on either side of middle; apical margin of ter-gum IV without white pubescence; pygidial plate truncate apically; fifth metasomal sternum angularly emarginate apically.
Male: Unknown
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