Reprinted with permission from: Viereck, H. L. 1924. Prodromus of Andrena, a genus of bees. Canadian Entomologist 56: 19-24, 28-32, 76-81, 237-244.
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FEMALE. — Length 8mm; body black, mostly covered with ochreous hairs: head mostly covered with ochreous hairs, fovea filled with dark or blackish hairs; front temples along the upper edge of the eye and region around the foveae with black hairs, face shining; partly indistinct reticulate, with indistinct punctures that are as many as four puncture widths apart, clypeus slightly elevated above the apical margin, convex, sculpted like the face along the edge, elsewhere nearly polished and more sparsely punctured with the punctures larger, clypearea present, clypeus thinly hairy, its sculpture not at all hidden by hairs, labrarea subemarginate, labrum with a median longitudinal ridge between the labrarea and apical edge of labrum, antennae blackish throughout, mandibles typical, robust, palpi nearly apical; thorax covered with an abundance of ochreous hairs that are shorter on the dorsulum where they are darker than the hairs on the mesopleura, scutel hairy and sculptured much like the dorsulum, legs blackish, except for the small joints of the tarsi, which are more or less brownish, covered with brownish golden and ochreous hairs; scopa typical, its hairs of the lower third pale ochreous, almost white, of its upper two-thirds with a dark brownish hue, hairs at base above decidedly darkened; propodeum with its enclosure poorly defined, dullish and finely reticulated, somewhat wrinkled at base, rest of upper face of propodeum covered with finer pale ochreous hair than mesopleura; abdomen with its tergum shining, finely reticulated, first, second, third and fourth tergites with erect ochreous hairs that are longer on the first and second tergites than on the third and fourth, apical edge of first, second, third and fourth tergites with a brownish border, pygidium nearly planate, fimbria dark seal brown.
HOLOTYPE. — Female, Banff, Alta., June 5, 1922 ( C.B. Garett; no. 665 in the Canadian National Collection, Ottawa
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