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Extracted from: Baker J.R., (1975). Taxonomy of Five Nearctic Subgenera of Coelioxys (Hymenoptera; Megachilidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin Vol. 50, No. 12, pp.649-730.
MALE. Agrees with description and figures of Coelioxys edita except as follows: (24) Length 10-11 mm; (25) integument black, antenna, dorsum of meta-soma black to piceous; legs, tegula, venter of metasoma piceous to ferruginous; (28) margin of clypeus with six small denticles; (30) paraocular area hidden by setae about 0.45 mm long; (31) rest of face hidden by appressed setae about 0.25 mm long; (33) ocellar area with small, irregular impunctate areas anteriorly; (34) ocelloccipital distance greater than interocellar distance, less than ocellocular distance; (38) mandible with outer surface simple as in Figure 22E; (39) scutum moderately punctured, anterior fascia indistinct; (40) lateral surface of mesepisternum closely punctured, setae squamose to slender, fascia indistinct; (41) scutellum slightly rounded posteriorly, sparsely punctured; (42) axilla without carinae; (45) tergum 6 with dorsal spines reduced, broad (Fig. 38J); (47) sternum 4 with submarginal carina indented medially (Fig. 39R); sternum 8 with base truncate (Fig. 39S); genital armature with gonobase lobed, gonocoxite with long, abundant setae (Fig. 39T).
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