Extracted from: Cockerell (1909). New American Bees. The Entomologist vol. VIII
A small species closely related to N. sayi, Robertson, but differing
as follows :-Head broader, eyes more diverging above; lateral
face-marks not so large below; eyes pale green; pleura with a dull
yellowish spot in front; legs light ferruginous, the anterior ones
largely yellowish, and the others spotted with yellow, the hind femora
with a brown spot behind near apex; abdomen with the yellow markings
enlarged, so that the second and third segments have very broad
bands, narrowed and interrupted in the middle; apical plate entire,
or with only a faint trace of the emargination which is so conspicuous
in N. sayi. The N. sayi compared is an authentic specimen
from Robertson.
Hab. Mesilla Park, New Mexico, April 26th (T. D. A. Cockerell).
At flowers of Sophia ochroleuca, Wooton. Named after
Prof. Wooton, of the New Mexico Agricultural College, who
described the plant it visits.
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