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Neolarra pruinosa Ashmead, 1890
Neolarra vittata Cockerell, 1916; Neolarra (Neolarra) pruinosa Ashmead, 1890

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Neolarra pruinosa, female PaDIL
Laurence Packer · 10
Neolarra pruinosa, female PaDIL

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Neolarra pruinosa, male PaDIL
Laurence Packer · 10
Neolarra pruinosa, male PaDIL
Neolarra pruinosa FEM CFP
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Neolarra pruinosa FEM CFP

Neolarra pruinosa MALE CFP
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Neolarra pruinosa MALE CFP
Overview
Species Account taken from "A Revision of the Genus Neolarra (Hymenoptera: Nomadidae) Author(s): Charles D. Michener Source: Transactions of the American Entomological Society (1890-), Vol. 65, No. 4 (Dec., 1939),pp. 347-362"


Neolarra pruinosa Ashmead, Colo. Biol. Assn. Bull., i, p. 8, 1890, Neolarra vittata Cockerell, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.,


This is a moderate sized, densely pubescent species in which the abdomen of the female is red, that of the male red or black. The large pronotal tubercles distinguish this species from its nearest relative, vandykei. The pubescence is white, slightly brownish on the dorsum of the head and thorax.

Female. Head: Eyes separated by slightly less than length of an eye; distance from median ocellus to posterior edge of vertex slightly more than half distance from median ocellus to antennal bases; first segment of flagellum broader than long and shorter than pedicel; antennae rufotestaceous; anterior margin of clypeus testaceous; labrum testaceous; mandibles testaceous, red at apices. Thorax: Pronotal tubercles and tegulae rufo-testaceous ; pronotal tubercles large, width of thorax across them fully as great as width across mesepisterna; axillae slightly more narrowly arcuate than in figure 3; process of metanotum bilobed; wings with two recurrent veins and two transverse cubital veins; legs rufo-testaceous. Abdomen: Red, sixth segment darker; pubescence of abdomen rather sparse but distributed over entire surface, slightly more abundant on posterior margins of tergites than elsewhere, posterior margin of fifth tergite with a broad, shallowly V-shaped emargination. Length, 4 to 5 mm.


Male. Similar to the female; legs and abdomen in some individuals black; process of seventh tergite nearly as slender as in figure 8. Length, 3.5 to 4.5 mm. Type.Male; West Cliff, Colorado; [U. S. National Museum].


Range: Rocky Mountain region, from Alberta to southern New Mexico.


Neolarra vittata Cockerell appears to be based upon a specimen of the black form of male pruinosa. Californian records of pruinosa refer, not to that species, but to alba and californica,


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