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Hylaeus formosus Krombein, 1953
Hylaeus metopii Mitchell, 1960; Hylaeus sp A Alayo, 1976; Hylaeus sp C Alayo, 1976

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Subgenus: Hylaeana

Hylaeus formosus, female, top
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Hylaeus formosus, female, top

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Identification
H. formosus is very distinctive in having reddish-orang legs, clypeus, and T1. It is also unique is having long hair that extends all the way across the metanotam. In other species this long hair is found only on the sides.


Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1960 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.

Female—Length 5 mm.; antennae, clypeus, labrum, mandibles, legs including coxae, and basal segment of abdomen ferruginous; lateral face marks somewhat more testaceous; pair of narrow lines on collar, apical margin of tuberdes, and a spot on the tegulae, ivory; wings hyaline, violaceous, veins and stigma piceous; head very slightly broader than long, face narrowed below, eyes converging, cheeks slightly narrower than eyes; foveae rather short, but deep and distinct, closely parallel to upper end of eye; segments 1, 2 and 3 of flagellum broader than long, following segments about as long as broad; face above antennae dull, punctures rather fine, quite deep and distinct, closely crowded; cheeks dull, punctures apparently close, but minute and obscure; thorax short, almost as broad as long, scutum quite closely, deeply and regularly punctate over entire disc, scutellum somewhat more sparsely punctate; metanotum finely and rather closely but distinctly punctate beneath the rather dense pubescence; dorsal area of propodeum exceedingly short, rounded to the posterior surface, smooth and shining, with just a very few minute basal irregularities; pleura somewhat shining, punctures above very fine and rather close, becoming somewhat more coarse and distinct below; basal abdominal tergum shining, minutely but rather distinctly punctate, punctures rather close laterally, more scattered medially, apical margin with a short white fascia on each extreme side; following segments dull, punctures exceedingly minute and close, hardly distinguishable.


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