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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 mm.; entirely black; head
slightly broader than long; eyes slightly convergent below; clypeus rather strongly convex, quite broad; mandibles dark basally, reddened toward tips; antennae more brownishpiceous, basal segment of flagellum about
equal to pedicel in length, 2nd segment slightly
longer and succeeding segments becoming successively longer, the more apical ones somewhat longer than broad; lateral ocelli subequally distant from eyes and each other; face
including clypeus quite coarsely, deeply and
uniformly punctate, punctures more distinctly
separated on clypeus, almost contiguous above
antennae, becoming very sparse and fine between eyes and ocelli; vertex back of ocelli
obscurely substriate, cheeks more coarsely striate behind, becoming relatively smooth and
very finely punctate along outer margins of
eyes, lower surface somewhat shining but
finely striate; pubescence of head very thin,
short, entirely white; wings subhyaline, with
the usual three submarginal cells, veins brownish-testaceous, stigma somewhat darker; tegulae piceous; legs black basally, becoming
more testaceous on the apical tarsal segments;
scutum and scutellum smooth and shining,
punctures very fine, widely separated on scutum posteriorly and on scutellum, becoming
somewhat closer but still quite sparse on scutum anteriorly; pleura rather coarsely rugosoreticulate; dorsal area of propodeum coarsely
and quite regularly striate, lateral faces more
finely reticulate, becoming somewhat more
coarsely so below, posterior face coarsely reticulate; abdominal terga smooth and shining,
punctures of basal tergum hardly visible, 2nd
and 3rd with very fine, well separated punctures toward base, becoming practically impunctate over apical half, the broad, faintly
impressed, apical margins entirely impunctate
and very slightly reddened; gonostyli (fig.
115), slightly exceeding penis valves, with a
rather short, apical, triangular, inner expansion.
DISTRIBUTION-Connecticut; August.
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