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Andrena revelstokensis Viereck, 1924
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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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Related to A.(A.) fulvicrista Viereck.

FEMALE. — Length 12mm; body black, mostly covered with black hairs; head covered with black hairs except for the white hairs of the vertex and some whitish hairs on the face, fovea filled with dark seal brown hairs, face mostly shining, distinctly reticulate, with distinct punctures that are as many as three puncture widths apart, clypeus slightly elevated above the apical margin, convex, sculptured like the face except that the punctures are larger, better defined and more scattered, clypearea present but poorly defined, clypeus thinly hairy its sculture not at all hidden by hairs, labarea subemarginate, labrum, without a median longitudinal crista between the labarea and apical edge of labrum; antennae blackish throughout, mandibles atypical, robust, palpi nearly typical; thorax covered with an abundance of white hair, mesopleura with black hairs except for some white hairs at the upper margin, tuberclea with white hairs except for some black hairs, legs black, small joints of the tarsi more or less reddish, covered with brownish and blackish hairs, scopa nearly typical, its hairs black throughout; proprdeum with its enclosure poorly defined, dullish and finely reticulated, rest of upper face of propodeum covered with white hair; abdomen with its tergum shining, without and apical whitish hair band, tergum with erect hairs that are white at first, white down the middle of the second; black on the sides of the second and all over the remaining tergites, apical edge of first, second, third and fourth tergites with a transluscent brownish border, pygidium convex; nearly pointed at apex, fimbria dark seal brown.

HOLOTYPE. — Female. Revelstoke Mt., B.c., elevation 8,000 feet, August 12,1923, (F.R. Buckell); No. 770 in theCanadian National Collection Ottawa. This may prove to be a variety of A. A. fulvicrista Viereck.

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