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Nomada semisuavis Cockerell, 1910
Nomada (Micronomada) semisuavis Cockerell, 1910; Hypochrotaenia (Micronomada) semisuavis (Cockerell, 1910)

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Overview
Reprinted from: Cockerell,T.A. 1910. Some bees of the genus Nomada from Washington state. Psyche. 17:92


Length about 9 mm.; black and bright lemon yellow; the anterior coxe with long spines; third antennal joint much longer than fourth; b. n. meeting t. m. Almost exactly like 2V. suavis Cresson, and possibly only a race or variety, but having the following distinctive characters: Scape swollen; lateral face-marks broader above; no black between lateral and supraclypeal marks; second s. m. narrower, receiving the first r. n. at its middle; yellow patch on pleura very large (fully twice as large as in suavis); legs seen from in front entirely yellow, anterior and middle femora with a black band behind, middle tibiae with a black mark behind, hind femora almost entirely black behind, their tibiae with a large black longitudinal band; last joint of hind tarsi bright ferruginous; apical plate of abdomen strongll and sharply notched (entire in suavis). N. suavis has been referred (Canad. Entom., 1905, p. 83) to Holonomada, but it belongs with the new species in the subgenus Micronomada. Both have in the male a pair of large yellow patches on the metathorax; Cresson�s supposed male of N. suavis, without these marks, was probably N. formula Viereck.

Identification
Extracted from: Cockerell T.D.A., (1910). Some Bees of the genus Nomada from Washington State. The University of Colorado pp. 91- 98


Male. Length about 9 mm.; black and bright lemon yellow; the anterior coxe with long spines; third antennal joint much longer than fourth; b. n. meeting t. m. Almost exactly like 2V. suavis Cresson, and possibly only a race or variety, but having the following distinctive characters: Scape swollen; lateral face-marks broader above; no black between lateral and supraclypeal marks; second s. m. narrower, receiving the first r. n. at its middle; yellow patch on pleura very large (fully twice as large as in suavis); legs seen from in front entirely yellow, anterior and middle femora with a black band behind, middle tibiae with a black mark behind, hind femora almost entirely black behind, their tibiae with a large black longitudinal band; last joint of hind tarsi bright ferruginous; apical plate of abdomen strongll and sharply notched (entire in suavis). N. suavis has been referred (Canad. Entom., 1905, p. 83) to Holonomada, but it belongs with the new species in the subgenus Micronomada. Both have in the male a pair of large yellow patches on the metathorax; Cresson’s supposed male of N. suavis, without these marks, was probably N. formula Viereck.


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