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Andrena pulverulenta Viereck, 1904
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Reprinted from: Viereck, H.L. 1904. Synopsis of bees of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Vancouver. — III. Canadian Entomologist 36: 189-196, 221-232. The copyright on this work has expired.

The information below was extracted from the keys on p. 189-190 and 193-195 and information on p. 228.

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FEMALE. — Third joint of antennae longer than 4 5. Abdominal segments not unusually depressed. Abdomen not distinctly punctured. Abdomen usually without dense appressed hair bands, where they occur they are not broad, and the abdomen is tessellate punctate. Abdomen with no conspicuous erect pale hair. Abdomen and scopa with pale pubescence. Abdomen very distinctly punctate tessellate. Clypeus finely punctured, almost granular.

MALE. — Cheeks regularly rounded, not angulate. Joint 3 distinctly longer than 4, but shorter than 4 5. First recurrent nervure received by the second submarginal cell in or beyond the middle. Abdomen not at all fasciate. Abdomen with no black pubescence. Cheeks twice as broad as the eye.

FEMALE. — 10 mm. The dull fine sculpture, the gray and sericeous pubescence, make of this a sharply defined species. TYPE LOCALITY. — Corvallis, Oregon. Type Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 25th Sept., 1898; MALE, 15th May, 1897 (Cordley).

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