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Lasioglossum obnubilum (Sandhouse, 1924)
Halictus (Chloralictus) obnubilus Sandhouse, 1924; Dialictus obnubilus (Sandhouse, 1924); Lasioglossum (Dialictus) lilliputense Gibbs, 2010

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Subgenus: Dialictus


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Extracted from: Sandhouse G. A. New North American Species of Bees Belonging to the Genus Halictus (Chloralictus). No. 2532 - Proceedings U.S. National Museum. Vol. 65, Art. 19.

In this excerpt, Lasioglossum obnubilum is known as the now synonymized Halictus obnubilus.

Male.—About 4 mm. long; head and thorax dark blue-green; abdomen black; pubescence white, sparse. Facial quadrangle longer than broad; orbits converging sharply below; antennae dark, second and third joints of equal length; flagellum dark brown, hardly paler beneath; front above the antennae closely punctured; below the antennae, the supraclypeal area and clypeus with sparse deep punctures; lower half of clypeus black. Mesothorax shining, greenish, with faint microscopic lineolations; outside the disk, the punctures are about the diameter of a puncture apart, on the disk, twice as far apart; scutellum and metathorax shining, punctured; disk of propodeum crescentic, with a low, polished, inclosing rim, shining, with plicae extending to the posterior margin; mesopleurae shining, coarsely punctured; sides of propodeum delicately punctured; truncation dis- tinct laterally; tegulae dark; impunctate. Abdomen slender, shining, the segments delicately punctured, except the apical margins of the segments which are polished; sparsely pubescent. Wings faintly dusky; anterior wing 2.5 mm. long; stigma and nervures dark; second submarginal cell higher than broad; contracted above; first recurrent nervure joining the second transverso-cubital; third submarginal very broad, contracted about one-half above, little longer than second on the marginal. Legs black.


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Asteraceae  Taraxacum @ AMNH_BEE (1)
_  Withheld @ BBSL (40); BBSL__ZION (117)

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