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Nomada vincta Say, 1837
Nomada vincta var heterochroa Cockerell, 1921; Holonomada vincta (Say, 1837); Nomada (Pachynomada) heterochroa Cockerell, 1921; Nomada (Pachynomada) vincta Say, 1837

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Nomada vincta MALE CFP
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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.

FEMALE�Length 9.5-12 mm.; lateral ocelIi slightly nearer margin of vertex than to each other; cheeks subequal to eyes in width, posterior margin not carinate; shorter side of basal segment of flagellum fully equal to segment 2 in length, median segments slightly longer than broad; mandibles simple, rather robust; wings lightly infuscated, slightly darker apically, with the usual three submarginal cells, 2nd somewhat narrower than 3rd anteriorly, veins and stigma testaceous, basal vein interstitial with transverse median; tegulae shining between rather deep and distinct but fine and evenly distributed punctures; posterior margin of scutellum very slightly impressed medially; front coxae not spinose; apex of hind tibiae with a row of 3-6 rather short but robust, testaceous bristles; clypeus and supraclypeal area yellowish-testaceous, the labrum, basal half of mandibles, and broad, lateral, facial maculae, bright yellow, the lateral maculae terminating rather narrowly at top of eye, and cheeks very narrowly rimmed with yellow along eye margin; otherwise upper portion of face, vertex and cheeks black; antennal scape, pedicel and basal segment of flagellum testaceous, flagellum otherwise more piceous; pronotal collar, tubercles, tegulae, scutellum in large part, adjacent median area of metanotum, a pair of broad maculae on propodeum, a large anterior maculation on mesopleura, and front, mid and hind coxae in large part, bright yellow; thorax otherwise black, scutellum rimmed with black both anteriorly and posteriorly, and with a median black line; trochanters piceous, femora testaceous, more or less piceous along lower margin, tibiae and tarsi bright yellow, spurs pale yellow; abdominal terga 1-5 with transverse, entire, submedian, yellow bands, these somewhat narrowed medially on 1-3, very broad on 5, covering most of the disc; abdominal sterna piceous, 2-4 with more or less complete, submedian yellow bands; punctures over entire head quite close, deep and distinct, somewhat finer on cheeks and vertex, more distinctly separated on face laterally and below; scutum densely and rather uniformly rugoso-punctate, scutellum and pleura below somewhat more coarsely and distinctly punctate, becoming more closely crowded on pleura above; propodeum rather closely and finely punctate, lateral faces below becoming smooth and somewhat shining, triangle impunctate, dull and densely tessellate, becoming somewhat striate along upper margin; abdominal terga very finely and closely but deeply and distinctly punctate throughout, the punctures becoming inevident at base of tergum 1, somewhat more coarse and sparse on tergum 5, only the very narrow apical rims of each impunctate; pseudopygidium transverse, very short, forming the truncate apical margin of tergum 5, covered with very dense, pale, sub- erect tomentum; pubescence extremely short, thin and obscure, hardly evident, entirely pale where visible; sternum 5 apically with a conspicuous tuft of elongate, yellowish hairs on each side.

MALE�Length 9-11 mm.; lateral ocelli slightly nearer margin of vertex than to each other; cheeks slightly more than half width of eyes, posterior margin rounded; antennal scape bulbous, length only slightly exceeding the maximum breadth, apex only slightly excavated, fully exposing pedicel, shorter side of basal segment of flagellum slightly longer than segment 2, following segments fully as broad as long; mandibles robust, entirely simple; wings subhyaline basally, becoming lightly infuscated apically, with the usual three submarginal cells, 2nd and 3rd subequal anteriorly, veins and stigma testaceous, basal vein interstitial with transverse median; tegulae shining between deep, distinct and rather close punctures throughout; posterior margin of scutellum narrowly and slightly grooved medially; anterior coxae not spinose; hind femora unmodified; apex of hind tibiae with a row of 5 or 6 rather short but robust, testaceous bristles; labrum, basal half of mandibles, entire face below antennae, and a narrow band completely encircling eyes, bright yellow, a small yellow spot just below anterior ocellus; otherwise upper part of face, vertex and cheeks black; scape yellow anteriorly, becoming testaceous posteriorly, flagellum largely testaceous, more or less piceous above toward apex; pronotal collar, tubercles, tegulae, scutellum, adjacent median area of metanotum, two large maculations on propodeum, a large anterior maculation on mesopleura, and all coxae, bright yellow; scutum narrowly ferruginous on each side, thorax otherwise black; trochanters and femora in general testaceous, the femora more or less yellowish anteriorly, tibiae and tarsi yellow, hind tibiae more or less testaceous over apical two thirds, spurs pale yellow; abdominal terga 1-6 with entire, transverse, broad, submedian, yellow bands, these slightly narrowed medially on 1-3, quite uniformly wide on 4 and 5, more restricted on 6; sterna 2-4 with more or less conspicuous, basal, yellow bands that are considerably narrowed at mid-line, 5 with a small, submedian, yellow maculation; sterna otherwise yellow-hyaline apically, more or less darkened between these areas and the maculations; punctures quite close, deep and distinct over entire head, somewhat finer on cheeks, somewhat more sparse on each side of clypeus below, those on clypeus medially rather coarse, very close and irregular; scutum densely and rather finely rugoso-punctate; pleura below very coarsely and distinctly punctate, punctures becoming slightly closer above; propodeum rather closely and deeply punctate, lower margin laterally becoming shining and impunctate, the triangle impunctate but dull and tessellate, becoming very finely and irregularly rugoso-striate along upper margin; abdominal terga deeply and distinctly but very finely and closely punctate throughout, punctures becoming inevident at base of tergum 1, somewhat coarser and more widely separated on the more apical terga, only the very narrow apical rims impunctate; pubescence extremely short, thin and inconspicuous, pale yellowish where visible; basal width of pygidial plate (fig. 104) about equal to median length, strongly narrowed apically to the narrowly rounded apex, margins carinate, surface very finely and shallowly punctate; sternum 6 quite broadly rounded, rather deeply and closely punctate, at least toward base; sternum 8 (fig. 104) with an elongate, slender, apical process, with a few robust setae at tip; gonocoxites of genital armature (fig. 103) broad at base but not lobate, gonostyli slender and elongate, thinly short pubescent, somewhat produced on inner side at base but not tufted.

DISTRIBUTION�Kansas and Nebraska, east to North Carolina, July to September.

FLOWER RECORDS�Bidens. Recorded by Robertson (1929) on Aster and Helianthus.
Recognition of another form of this species, heterochroa Cockerell, from Colorado makes the subspecific designation of this typical form of vincta necessary.


Reprinted from: Cresson, E. T. 1863. On the North American species of the genus Nomada. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Phil. 2:284-286


Nomada vincta Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i, p. 401. % 9. (1837.) Nomada pulchella Smith. Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. ii, p. 247. %. (1854.) Female. " Body black : head beneath the antennae, ferruginous : orbits yellow : antennae ferruginous, dusky about the middle ; terminal joint paler : collar yellow : thorax each side over the wings, with a dull ferruginous margin ; before the wings a yellow spot : wing-scale honeyyellow : wings slightly dusky, particularly the terminal margin : nervures honey-yellow : scutel subbilobate, yellow, line on the middle posterior margin ferruginous ; metathorax near the scutel with a transverse line and an irregular, longitudinal, quadrate spot on each side behind, yellow : tergum with a yellow band, gradually contracted towards the middle, and obsoletely margined with ferruginous, before the middle of each segment ; anterior band a little undulated or denticulated : pectus with a triangular, yellowish spot over the fore-feet : coxse, black, with a yellow spot : thighs ferruginous, blackish behind : tibiae and tarsi ferruginous and yellow : venter with two yellowish bands; towards the tip honey-yellow. Length 9 nine-twentieths of an inch. Male. " Ferruginous ; orbits and heiid before, yellow ; autennse blackish towards the tip; first joint yellow beneath; colLir, line over the wings, two obsolete ones in the middle, wing-scale excepting a dot in the middle, yellow ; scutel undivided, yellow ; metathorax in greater part, yellow; abdomen yellow, posterior margins of the segments black, submaryins ferru<>;iuous. Rather more slender than the female." Three 9 '"id two % specimens of this beautiful species, from Rock Island, 111. (Coll. Benj. D. Walsh, Esq.), difi'ers from Say's description above quoted as follows : 9 ��Head beneath the antenna is yellowish- ferruginous ; the labrum and sides of the face being sometimes yellow; the ''dull ferruginous margin over the wings" is, in one specimen, indistinct, and in another specimen the thorax above is ferruginous, with a broad black longitudinal dorsal line, and on each side of it, a longitudinal blackish stain ; the tegulae in two specimens are yellow, with a fuscous dot on the disk ; the femora behind are sometimes entirely ferruginous and the tips of the tibiae within are blackish, sometimes indistinctly so. The two yellow bands of the abdomen beneath are on the second and third segments. % .�Black, instead of ferruginous ; the face beneath the antennae is yellow, and on each side of the clypeus a minute black dot; the yellow orbits of the eyes do not reach their vertex ; the thorax is black, and there is no appearance of a " line over the wings" and "two obsolete ones in the middle;" the tegulae are honey-yellow ; the scutellum has two small yellow spots ; each side of the metathorax also with a small yellow spot; the posterior femora within are black ; the first segment of the abdomen above has a narrow ferruginous band, which, in one specimen, has on each side of the disk two small yellow spots close together ; the yellow band on the second segment is broadly indented on the disk anteriorly and in one specimen the band on the third segment is broadly and squarely indented on the disk anteriorly; the apical segment beneath is yellow. Length Bylines. I rather suspect that Say described a small and slender 9 of N. luteola St. Farg., as the % of his vincta, as I have some small and slender females of the former species which answer to Say's description of the latter, and which at a glance have the appearance of males. The females of vincta resemble some of the 9 varieties of luteola. but they may be easily distinguished from the latter by the much finer punctation of the head and thorax. The males also very much resemble those of latmla, but the yellow abdominal bauds of the latter are more re


Identification
Extracted from Western Bees obtained by the American Museum Expeditions by Cockerell (1921).


COLORADO: 59, 7 d", Wray, about 3700 ft. alt., both sexes at Helianthus, one male taken by evening sweeping in a relatively moist place along the river, some collected by Pearce Bailey, Jr., August 17,1919; 19, Boulder, about 5500 ft. alt., in a vacant lot in town, August 8, 1919. . Common in Eastern Colorado, but I did not take it in New Mexico.


Nomada vincta heterochroa
COLORADO: 2d", 'Vray, about 3700 ft. alt., one taken with the typical form in evening sweeping and one in a moist place at the head of Dry Willow Creek, August 17 and 18, 1919. l\Iesothorax red, with a large cuneiform black mark, having its base on posterior margin; mesopleura red, except for the yellow patch; base of abdomen and bands red instead of black, sometimes with black at bases of "second and third segments. A color-variety, not a race, but very distinct in appearance.

Extracted from: Moalid A.S., & Broemeling K.D., (1988). A Revision of the Nomada Subgenus Pachynomada (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 64(3), 1988, pp. 201-227

Diagnosis.-Penis valve with conspicuous ventral subapical hook, eighth sternum elongated apically; occipital margin gently rounded, posterior basitarsus expanded medially (Fig. 44); posterior tibia with 4-8 apical bristles; minimum length of first flagellar segment longer than maximum length of second; propodeum lacking dorso-Iateral angle behind spiracles; supraclypeal area distinctly protuberant; mandibles simple; female with paraocular carina.

Description.-Length 7.4-13.3 mm, forewing length 5.3-10.4 mm, hindwing length 4.1-8.1 mm; minimum length of first flagellar segment greater than maximum length of second; antennal scape in males often inflated to globose; pre-occipital ridge rounded, not reflexed or strongly angulate; supraclypeal area distinctly protruberant between antennal insertions, with a flattened median carina; margin of labrum sharply angulate; females with well developed paraocular carina; mandibular acetabular carina lamellate in males; mandibles lacking subapical tooth; head densely punctate with smooth shiny IPS (exceptions noted in species descriptions); Thorax: prelobar carina short, prominent; apex of pronotal ridge usually rounded, broadly depressed medially; scutum deeply, contiguously punctured, occasionally reticulate; rim of punctures frequently angulate, giving them a "shaved" appearance, IPS smooth and shiny; tegulae shallowly punctured with glassy surface; scutellum weakly to strongly bilobate, postero-medial region with distinctly micro rugose IPS; propodeal disk rugose medio-apically and latero-apically, shagreened ventrally; sides of propodeum somewhat swollen posterior to spiracle (but not angulate), supraspiracular ridge undeveloped; mesopleuron densely, circularly punctured (sometimes reticulate), IPS glassy ventrally roughened dorsally, hypoepimeral area often distinctly protruding; procoxa often bearing a rudimentary posterior spine, usually showing as a sharp bump or angulation; hind tibial apex with a row of 4 to 8 thickened bristles; hind basitarsi distinctly widened medially, with curved anterior and posterior margins; forewing with 2 or 3 submarginal cells; sternum 8 of males with narrow, elongated distal process; penis valves with distinct ventral subapical projection; body sparsely clothed with moderately long pubescence; COLOR: Various combinations of black, yellow, ferruginous, and rufo-ferruginous. Female differs from male as follows: Scape cylindrical; short, wide pseudopygidium present, anterior tarsal brushes absent; apex of sternum 8 with conspicuous lateral tufts of long inward curving hairs.

Extracted from: Charles, R. (1895). Notes on bees, with Descriptions of New Species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society Vol. 22, No. 2. pp. 115-128.

I have four females of this species which agree well with Say's description. It is a little smaller than preceding, less strongly punctured, more black, less pubescent, face below antennae ferruginous, orbits yellow, third joint of antennae longer than fourth, flagellum dusky in the middle, mesonotum black, with a narrow ferruginous margin over tegulae, in one specimen with an indication of two me dian ferruginous lines ; otherwise resembling preceding.

The male closely resembles female, so much so that there can be no doubt to one having both sexes before him ; scape club-shaped, rounded above, of same color as flagellum, third joint of latter longer than fourth, apical segment of abdomen entire. I think the male described by Say does not belong here. This is an autumnal species, and in my neighborhood flies from September 12 to 26.

The two preceding species of N?mada resemble N. superba in having the third joint of antennae longer than fourth, and the apical segment of the abdomen in the male entire, not bifid as in many other species.

Among specimens which I originally referred to N. luteola Lep., I find a number of individuals which indicate a distinct, though closely allied species. The ornaments are very similar, but the structural characters of antennae and metathorax are quite different. The following descriptions indicate the more important distinctions.


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