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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 much broader than long;
eyes slightly convergent below; clypeus rather evenly convex; labrum dark, quite short
and broadly rounded; mandibles with a distinct, inner, subapical tooth, dark basally, becoming ferruginous apically; antennae dark
basally, becoming more brownish-piceous apically, basal segment of flagellum slightly broader than long, the 2nd about as long as broad
and the following segments slightly longer than
broad; lateral ocelli slightly nearer to each
other than to eyes; face below ocelli dull,
punctures rather fine but deep and distinct,
closely crowded, becoming somewhat more
distinctly separated below, but obscured by the
pubescence, those on supraclypeal area fine
and rather close but distinctly separated, those
on clypeus somewhat coarser, rather close
across upper margin but becoming rather sparse and irregular apically; vertex between
eyes and ocelli somewhat shining, punctums
fine, distinct and slightly separated, hind mar- gin becoming obscurely rugose, cheeks somewhat shining above, with very vague and indistinct but rather close punctures, becoming
quite smooth below; wings lightly infuscated,
with the usual three submarginal cells, veins
and stigma brownish-piceous; tegulae testaceous-hyaline; legs piceous; scutum and scukllum somewhat shining, punctures rather
coarse, quite deep and distinct, slightly separated over scutum medially, becoming finely rugoso-punctate along the anterior margin and
quite close across posterior margin; scutellum
very slightly impressed medially, punctures irregularly scattered and rather sparse; pleura
coarsely rugose, but hypoepimeral area shining,
with a few scattered, shallow and rather obscure punctures; dorsal area of propodeum
completely and rather coarsely striate, lateral
faces dull, finely rugoso-striate, posterior face
reticulate; abdominal terga smooth and shining, basal tergum practically impunctate, terga 2 and 3 with very minute and rather close
punctures across basal half, apical half becoming practically impunctate, apical mar- gins rather broadly impressed, only the 2nd
obscurely yellowish-hyaline.
DISTRIBUTION-Michigan and New
York to North Carolina; May to September.
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