Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9
Nomada perplexans, male, abdomen |
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Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9
Nomada perplexans, male, face |
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Nomada perplexans, male, side |
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Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9
Nomada perplexans, male, top |
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Overview |
Reprinted from: Cockerell,T.A. 1910. Some bees of the genus Nomada from Washington state. Psyche. 17:94-95
Length about 9 mm.; head and thorax black, with long coarse white
hair, which is slightly stained with yellowish above; lower corners of
face sending a linear process along orbits nearly to level of antennae,
clypeus except sides above, labrum and basal half of mandibles, all
light yellow; scape entirely black; flagellum red, the first five joints
black above, the others with a blackish band; third antennal joint a
little shorter than fourth; thorax densely and strongly punctured, wholly black except the reddish tubercles; tegulse very bright ferruginous;
wings strongly dusky at apex; stigma ferruginous, nervures
fusco-ferruginous; b. n. going far basad of t. m.; first r. n. joining
second s. m. well beyond middle; legs red, the anterior femora black
at base behind, the other femora with more black, the hind ones with
more black than red; abdomen clear red, first segment with basal half
and a pair of spots on apical half black; second segment with a pair
of very large pale yellow patches, pointed mesad; sixth with a pair of
obscure yellowish spots; apical plate notched; venter red with broad
suffused blackish bands. A western representative of 2V. perplexa
Cresson, easily distinguished by the much lighter red abdomen.
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Updated: 2024-04-19 08:23:27 gmt
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