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Nomada salicis Robertson, 1900
Life   Insecta   Hymenoptera   Apoidea   Apidae   Nomada
Subgenus: None


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Overview
Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1962 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 152.

No specimens of salicis have been collected, nor have any been found in other collections received for study. The following descriptive note was made from the type in the Illinois Natural History Survey:

MALE—Face black, with entire clypeus, labrum and mandibles yellow, with yellow lateral face marks ending abruptly on eye margin about at level of antennae; scape and basal segment of flagellum yellow, flagellum otherwise brownish-ferruginous beneath, piceous above, median segments broader than long, basal segment shorter than segment 2; mandibles simple; thorax black, finely and densely rugoso-punctate; tubercles, a pair of spots on scutellum, and a narrow band on pleura below, yellow; coxae and legs largely yellow, the femora more or less piceous; wings hyaline, lightly infuscated apically, basal vein basad of transverse median; front coxae not spined; abdominal terga shining, nearly impunctate, terga 1-6 with entire, transverse, yellow bands, that on 2 narrowed medially; pygidial plate notched at apex.

DISTRIBUTION—Illinois.

FLOWER RECORD—Recorded by Robertson (1929) on Salix amygdaloides.


Identification
Extracted from: Charles Robertson (1900). Some Illinois Bees. Trans. Acad. Sci. Of st. Louis.

Male. Mandibles simple; antennae short, fourth joint twice as long as third, joints 7-12 short; hearl and thorax closely punctured, abdomen shining. scutellum bilobed, basal nervure ending beyond ttransverse median, apical segment of abdomen bifid. Black, the lower part of face, mandibles except tips, labrum, scape in front, front and lower border of pleura, tubercles, two spots on scutellum, yellow; anterior and middle coxae in front, the knees, anterior ancl middle tarsi, anterior tibi:le in front, middle and posterior tibiae at apex, yellow; elsewhere the legs are more ferruginous, inelining to blackish behind on middle and posterior pair; wings hyaline, apical border clouded, nervures and tegulae testaceous; abdomen with six yellow bands, the last two interrupted laterally so to leave a small spot on each extreme side. Length 8 mm.


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