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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.; head and thorax
black, abdomen ferruginous, becoming darkened apically; head slightly broader than long;
eyes very slightly convergent below; clypeus
rather short, slightly convex; mandibles simple, rather elongate, brownish-testaceous, with
slightly reddened tip; antennae largely piceous, 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 shining,
finely and distinctly punctate, punctures well
separated but hardly sparse, interspaces exceeding diameter of punctures over most of
area, supraclypeal area somewhat shining,
with very fine and rather close, shallow punctures, those on clypeus fine, shallow and rather
sparse medially, becoming somewhat closer but
still well separated laterally; vertex shining
between eyes and ocelli, punctures fine, distinct and well separated, hind margin becoming obscurely roughened; cheeks dull, finely
and obscurely punctate above, becoming
smooth and shining below; wings faintly infuscated, with the usual three submarginal
cells, veins and stigma brownish-testaceous;
tegulae testaceous-hyaline; legs piceous in general, becoming somewhat 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
about equalling diameter of punctures in general, those on scutellum somewhat finer and
more widely separated; pleura rather coarsely
rugose, hypoepimeral area rather smooth; dorsal area of propodeum coarsely and completely
reticulate, lateral faces quite smooth and
shining anteriorly, becoming coarsely reticulate posteriorly, posterior face coarsely reticulate; abdominal terga smooth and shining,
basal tergum impunctate, punctures of 2nd
and 3rd quite close, evenly distributed over
most of disc, apical margin of all rather
broadly impressed and impunctate, those on
the first three segments yellowish-hyaline, piceous on 4th.
DISTRIBUTION-North Carolina; September.
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