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 9 mm.; lateral ocelli sub- equally distant from margin of vertex and each other; cheeks only slightly narrower than eyes, hind margin quite strongly carinate; antennal scape quite slender, not much broader than flagellum, apex rather deeply excavated but not completely enclosing pedicel, shorter side of basal segment of flagellum nearly as long as segment 2, median segments only very slightly longer than broad; mandibles rather robust, simple; wings hyaline basally, becoming rather deeply infuscated along apical margin and in marginal cell, with the usual three submarginal cells, 2nd very short anteriorly, much narrower than 3rd, veins testaceous to piceous, basal vein interstitial with transverse median; tegulae shining between quite coarse, close and deep punctures; posterior margin of scutellum only slightly impressed medially; front coxae not spinose; hind femora unmodified; labrum, clypeus except narrow upper margin, mandibles except tips, a very small spot on supraclypeal area, and small lateral maculations, bright yellow, the lateral maculations not reaching level of antennae and interrupted by a darkened area near lower end of eye; face, vertex and cheeks otherwise black; antennal scape largely yellow, flagellum more brownish-testaceous below, more piceous above; pronotal collar, tubercles, tegulae, scutellum except anterior and posterior margins, and two large lateral maculations on posterior face of propodeum, bright yellow; thorax otherwise black; tibiae and tarsi bright yellow, front femora yellow beneath and toward apex, mid and hind femora more narrowly yellow at apex, otherwise legs piceous to testaceous basally, spurs pale yellow; basal abdominal tergum mostly piceous, but with a vague, more or less yellowish median band; terga 2-4 with transverse, basal, yellow bands that are broad laterally, much narrowed or interrupted medially, discs piceous apically; terga 5 and 6 with submedian, transverse, yellow bands that are more or less interrupted medially; abdominal sterna 1 and 2 largely dark, 3-5 with transverse, yellow, basal bands; punctures very coarse, close and deep over most of head, becoming somewhat finer, shallower and closer on clypeus, supraclypeal area rather densely and finely rugose; punctures of scutellum deep and contiguous, rather irregular as to size, somewhat finer laterally, very coarse over median area; scutellum somewhat more finely and very closely punctate; mesopleura very coarsely and deeply punctate, with some very narrow, shining interspaces evident, but contiguous in general; lateral faces of propodeum somewhat shining, with very fine, scattered, irregular rugosities above and posteriorly, posterior face more shining, punctures coarse, close and deep laterally, median area and triangle impunctate; basal abdominal tergum minutely and rather closely punctate apically, punctures becoming increasingly minute toward base; terga 2-5 with deeper, more distinct but still fine and close punctures, these becoming somewhat more minute toward the narrowly impunctate apical rims on 2 and 3, but becoming somewhat coarser and distinct on 4 and 5, very close and fine but deep and distinct over entire disc of 6; pubescence extremely short, thin and obscure, entirely pale where visible, somewhat more evident on face, cheeks below, venter of thorax and on the more apical abdominal segments; basal width of pygidial plate somewhat greater than median length, obtusely angulate at apex, margins carinate, surface very densely and finely rugoso-punctate; sternum 6 rather broadly rounded apically; sternum 8 (fig. 104) with
slender, apical process, obscurely fringed except at apex; gonocoxites of genital armature (fig. 103) broad at base, not lobate, gonostyli very short, conspicuously tufted, not produced at base beneath, penis valves strongly flexed, the apices directed ventrally (thus hidden from view in figure).
TYPE—Holotype: Male, Southern Pines, N. C., May 12, 1950 (T. B. Mitchell).
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