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Extracted from: Mitchell, T. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States, I. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. 1-191.
MALE-Length 6.5 mm.; head and thorax
black, segments 1 and 2 of abdomen ferruginous, 3rd suffused with piceous, 4th and 5th piceous; head considerably broader than long,
eyes convergent below; mandibles dull testaceous, somewhat reddened at tips; antennae
dark reddish-piceous, basal segment of flagellum about equal to pedicel in length, 2nd and
following segments slightly longer, length and
breadth of each about equal; lateral ocelli
subequally distant from eyes and each other;
entire face including clypeus rather coarsely
rugoso-punctate and dull, vertex back of ocelli
becoming more coarsely reticulate, cheeks
coarsely reticulate, with only a narrow area
beneath becoming smooth and shining; facial
pubescence white and rather short, thin above
antennae, quite dense below; wings becoming
lightly infuscated toward outer margin, veins
pale brownish, stigma more piceous, with the
usual three submarginal cells, the 2nd being
quite narrow; tegulae yellowish-hyaline, darker along inner margin; legs piceous, becoming
somewhat paler toward apical tarsal segments;
scutum coarsely reticulate, scutellum more
rugoso-punctate; pleura very coarsely reticulate; dorsal area of propodeum coarsely and
irregularly striate, the lateral surfaces somewhat striate below, becoming more finely so
above, posterior face coarsely reticulate; abdominal terga smooth and shining, basal tergum practically impunctate, terga 2 and 3
finely and rather closely punctate over basal
half, becoming very sparsely so toward impressed apical margins which are broad and
entirely impunctate; gonostyli much exceeding
penis valves, with a subtriangular, inner, ventral lobe and with only a wry few short and inconspicuous setae, (somewhat like stygius,
fig. 117, but broader).
DISTRIBUTION-Florida ; April
Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1960 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.
Sphecodes fattigi is also known as the now synonymized Sphecodes prostygius.
FEMALE-Length 7 mm.; head, thorax and
legs black, segments 1-3 of abdomen red, 4
and 5 black; head much broader than long;
eyes only very slightly convergent below; clypeus rather convex, median length slightly
less than half the breadth; labrum slightly
broader than long, subtruncate apically; mandibles entirely simple, largely reddish; antennae quite short, basal segment of flagellum
about equal to pedicel, all segments somewhat
broader than long; lateral ocelli slightly nearer each other than to eyes; face dull, densely
rugoso-punctate, largely covered with rather
dense, short pubescence, supraclypeal area
with fine and closely crowded punctures, clypeus with much coarser but very close, rather
shallow punctures; vertex dull, finely roughened or subrugose, without distinct punctures;
cheeks somewhat rugose above, becoming more
reticulate below, but area adjacent to hypostome smooth and shining; scutum dull, with
coarse and close punctures, these only slightly separated in center, becoming more rugose
laterally and over anterior half; (puncturation
of scutellum destroyed by pin); pleura, including hypoepimeral area, rather coarsely
rugose, becoming somewhat more striate posteriorly; dorsal area of propodeum coarsely
reticulate, with a quite evenly roughened, posterior rim, lateral faces coarsely striate, posterior face coarsely reticulate; tegulae testaceous-hyaline; wings subhyaline basally, becoming somewhat clouded apically, veins brownish-testaceous, stigma more reddish-piceous,
2nd submarginal cell very short, slightly narrower anteriorly, receiving 1st recurrent vein
at outer third; legs entirely black, spurs pale
testaceous; basal abdominal tergum smooth
and shining, practically impunctate, terga 2-4
with fine and rather close punctures across
base, becoming nearly impunctate over apical
half of disc on 2, but 3 and 4 quite completely
punctate, apical rims of 2 and 3 smooth, shining, ferruginous, quite broad, entirely impunctate, that on 4 black, 5 with close and rather
fine punctures, discal pubescence entirely pale,
very short and thin on the more basal terga,
becoming more copious and erect, but still
quite short, on the apical terga.
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