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Extracted from: Mitchell, T. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States, I. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. 1-191.
FEMALE-Length 6 mm.; hiad and thorax
black, abdomen ferruginous basally, becoming black apically; head somewhat broader
than long; eyes very slightly convergent below; clypeus short and very broad, only very slightly convex; labrum nearly as long as
broad, rounded apically, entire, dark basally,
becoming more ferruginous apically; mandibles simple, rather elongate, brownish-testaceous with reddened tip; antennae largely piceous, flagellum somewhat paler brownish beneath, segments 1 and 2 much broader than
long, length and breadth of the following segments subequal; lateral ocelli slightly nearer
each other than to eyes; face below ocelli finely, deeply and distinctly punctate, punctures
alnlost crowded just below ocelli, but becoming somewhat more widely and distinctly
separated between this area and antennae,
supraclypeal area somewhat shining, with very
fine and rather close, shallow punctures, those
on clypeus close along upper margin, becoming much more coarse and sparse toward
apical margin; vertex somewhat shining between eyes and ocelli, punctures deep and
distinct, quite close but not crowded, hind
margin becoming finely rugoso-striate; cheeks
dull, finely rugoso-striate above, becoming
smooth and shining below; wings faintly infuscated, with the usual three submarginal
cells, veins and stigma brownish-testaceous,
first recurrent vein nearly contiguous with
second intercubital: tegulae testaceous-hyaline; legs reddish-piceous-in general, becoming
son~ewhat paler on apical tarsal segments;
scutum and scutellum somewhat shining, punctures deep and distinct, rather fine, close over
most of scutum, becoming almost crowded anteriorly, interspaces not exceeding diameter of
punctures in general, those on scutellum
somewhat more irregular and more widely
separated; pleura coarsely rugose, becoming
somewhat more striate posteriorly; dorsal
area of propodeum rather coarsely, completely
rugoso-striate, lateral faces finely reticulate
above, becoming more coarsely striate below,
posterior face coarsely reticulate; abdominal
terga smooth and shining, punctures fine but
quite deep and distinct, irregularly scattered
and rather sparse across central portion of
basal tergum, those on terga 2 and 3 quite
close, evenly distributed over most of disc,
apical margin of all terga rather broadly impressed and impunctate, those on 1 and 2
yellowish-hyaline, black on 3 and 4.
DISTRIBUTION-North Carolina; August.
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