Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.
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FEMALE. — Length 8 mm.; eyes very slightly convergent below; foveae broad, filling most of area between eyes and ocelli above, densely covered with pale ochraceous tomentum, reaching slightly below antennal line; vertex quite narrow, lateral ocelli separated from its margin by a space about equal to their diameter; cheeks somewhat shining, broader than eyes (ratio of about 3:2); clypeus evenly convex, protruding somewhat more than one-third below suborbital line, shining, with a median impunctate line, punctures on each side of this quite deep and distinct, becoming rather close at extreme lateral angles; malar space very short; process of labrum quite large, broad, evenly rounded, median length nearly half the basal width; basal segment of flagellum nearly equal in length to segments 2 and 3 combined; punctures of cheeks and vertex very minute and obscure, hardly evident; pubescence of head and thorax pale ochraceous above, becoming somewhat more whitish below, that on legs entirely pale ochraceous; scutum and scutellum smooth but rather dull and tessellate, punctures shallow, quite sparse over most of scutum, becoming somewhat closer and more coarse but still very shallow on scutellum; pleura smooth and rather dull, somewhat roughened anteriorly, but almost shining posteriorly; propodeal triangle rather sharply defined, finely rugoso-striate, becoming more finely rugose toward mid line, lateral portions of propodeum densely tessellate and dull above, lateral faces smooth and rather shining, propodeal corbicula very highly developed, with a dense, anterior fringe and without any inner hairs; trochanteral floccus complete, quite elongate and highly developed; legs dark, basitarsi rather slender, elongate and parallel-sided, hind tibial scopa of rather short, dense but simple hairs, the hind tibiae somewhat cuneate, gradually expanded apically, apex nearly twice width of basitarsi; spurs relatively straight, yellowish; wings pale fuliginous, veins and stigma more yellowish, 2nd submarginal cell about half length of 3rd, receiving 1st recurrent at middle; tegulae testaceous-hyaline posteriorly, becoming fuscous anteriorly; abdominal terga somewhat shining, punctures of basal areas of each plate fine and obscure, but rather close and distinct on basal tergum, apical impressed areas of terga 2-4 shallow but broad, occupying about half length of each disc along mid line, these areas practically impunctate, discal pubescence extremely fine, short and obscure, hardly evident, fasciae not evident, tergum 5 with an apical, ochraceous fimbria.
TYPES. — Holotype: Female, Chippewa Co., Mich., June 3, 1957 (R. & K. Dreisbach) [Dreisbach]. Paratype: 1 F, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, June 26, 1956 (W. T. A. Neilson) [N. B. Dept. Agr.].
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