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 8 mm.; lateral ocelli much nearer margin of vertex than to each other, and much nearer each other than to eyes; cheeks somewhat narrower than eyes, posterior margin not noticeably carinate; antennal scape somewhat swollen, apex deeply excavated and enclosing the pedicel, longer side of basal segment of flagellum about equal segment 2, median segments slightly longer than broad; mandibles slender and simple; wings subhyaline, becoming faintly infuscated apically, but with a distinct hyaline area just beyond the submarginal cells, veins and stigma brownish-testaceous, with the usual three submarginal cells, 2nd somewhat broader than 3rd anteriorly, basal vein very slightly basad of transverse median, almost interstitial; tegulae testaceous except along inner margin, shining, finely and rather sparsely punctate; scutellum rounded, not at all impressed medially; front coxae not spinose; hind femora simple and unmodified; clypeus except upper margin, labrum, mandibles except tips, and very small lateral face marks, bright yellow, head otherwise black; antennal scape yellow anteriorly, blackish posteriorly, flagellum testaceous beneath, blackish above toward base, becoming testaceous apically; margin of tubercles narrowly testaceous, thorax otherwise entirely black; coxae and trochanters black, femora more or less blackened posteriorly, but anterior face of front and mid femora testaceous, the hind femora testaceous apically; tibiae largely testaceous but somewhat blackened on outer face medially; tarsi testaceous, spurs pale yellow; basal abdominal tergum black basally, with narrow, lateral maculations which are somewhat separated medially, apical margin rather broadly testaceous-hyaline; terga 2 and 3 with broad, lateral, yellow maculations which are strongly narrowed toward mid-line, nearly meeting, basal area blackish, apical impressed areas yellowish-hyaline; terga 4-6 with transverse, yellow bands which are narrowly constricted medially but not interrupted; abdominal sterna dark, with rather vague, transverse, yellowish maculations; head and thorax coarsely rugoso-punctate, but lower portions of face and clypeus more finely so, the lateral maculated areas smooth and only sparsely punctate; abdominal terga finely but closely, deeply and distinctly punctate, punctures invading apical impressed areas nearly to rims, these very narrowly impunctate; pubescence erect and rather copious but not hiding surface, somewhat yellowish above on head and thorax, more whitish below and on thorax posteriorly, very short and thin, barely evident on the more basal abdominal terga, becoming somewhat more elongate apically; pygidial plate slightly narrowed apically, apex rather broadly emarginate, margins carinate, surface shallowly but closely punctate; sternum 8 with a slender apical process; gonocoxites of genital armature quite similar to those in fragariae (fig. 105).
TYPE — Holotype: Male, Takoma Pk., Md., Mar. 26, 1944 (H. & M. Townes) [Townes].
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