Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1962 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 152.
FEMALE—Length 7-8 mm.; lateral ocelli slightly nearer margin of vertex than to each other; cheeks slightly narrower than eyes, posterior margin rounded; longer side of basal segment of flagellum slightly shorter than segment 2, median segments considerably longer than broad; mandibles simple; wings lightly infuscated, becoming somewhat more deeply so along apical margin and in marginal cell, with a hyaline area just beyond the submarginal and discoidal cells, with the usual three submarginal cells, 2nd considerably broader anteriorly than 3rd which is very strongly narrowed, veins and stigma piceous, basal vein considerably basad of transverse median; tegulae shining, punctures very fine, rather close along inner margin, becoming very sparse and minute along outer margin; posterior margin of scutellum quite deeply grooved medially; front coxae not spinose; apex of hind tibiae with only one or two very slender but elongate, inconspicuous bristles; clypeus, labrum and mandibles reddish-testaceous, eyes narrowly bordered with ferruginous, very narrowly along inner orbits but reaching lateral ocelli above, median area of face from clypeal margin to anterior ocellus, black; cheeks largely black, narrowly ferruginous along margin of eye; antennal scape reddish-testaceous, flagellum more brownish-testaceous beneath, piceous above; tubercles and tegulae reddish-testaceous; pronotal collar, lateral maculations mesopleura, scutellum entirely, and scutum laterally, dull ferruginous; venter of thorax, metapleura, entire propodeum, and narrow median area of scutum, black; coxae chiefly black, legs otherwise more testaceous, mid and hind femora more or less piceous basally, spurs pale yellow; abdominal terga largely ferruginous, the apical, impunctate margins becoming more yellowish-hyaline, tergum 2 with a pair of widely separated, lateral, yellow maculae; face and vertex very coarsely, deeply and quite closely punctate, punctures becoming very fine and densely crowded on supraclypeal area and clypeus, cheeks rather coarsely rugoso-punctate; scutum, scutellum and pleura coarsely rugoso-punctate, punctures somewhat more distinct mesopleura below, propodeum rather coarsely rugose posteriorly, becoming somewhat more finely and shallowly so on lateral faces below, triangle dull and densely tessellate below, becoming rather coarsely striate above; discs of abdominal terga very finely and rather closely punctate basally, becoming impunctate on the broad, apical, impressed margins; basal tergum becoming impunctate laterally and basally, punctures exceedingly minute, barely visible medially; punctures of tergum 5 becoming somewhat more sparse and coarse apical]y; pseudopygidium transverse, very short, forming the rather narrow. truncate, apical margin of tergum 5, densely clothed with suberect, silvery tomentum; pubescence very short, rather copious on face, cheeks, and on thorax laterally and beneath, entirely white, barely evident on abdomen dorsally except toward apex, more thin and elongate on the sterna; apex of sternum 5 with a pair of tufts of elongate, brownish hairs that converge medially.
DISTRIBUTION—Michigan to Maine, south to North Carolina, May to August.
FLOWER RECORDS—This has been recorded on Aralia and Spiraea.
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Extracted from: Lovell J.H., & Cockerell T.D.A. (1905). The Nomadine and Epeoline Bees of the Southern Maine.
Female. Length about 8 mm.; black and red, rather robust. Face, cheeks and pleura clothed with white pubescence, sides of metathorax fringed with long white hair. Mandibles except apices which are darkened, labrum, clypeus, usually a narrow line along the orbits, and vertex red; face, region of ocelli, cheeks and occiput black; flagellum ferruginous in front, blackened behind, third joint shorter than fourth. Tegulae and tubercles ferruginous; mesothorax dark red tinged with black, with a rather broad median longitudinal line; sutures black; metathorax entirely black, pleura black above with a middle spot, red below. Legs red, coxae largely black; upper half of anterior and middle femora black beneath; posterior femora blackened behind except at extreme apex;first and second joints of hind tarsi blackened without. Wings dusky, strongly darkened on apical margins; stigma ferruginous, outer half darker than the inner; basal nervure basad transverse medial; second submarginal cell about one half. as wide on the radius as on the cubitus; second and third transverse cubital nervures strongly curved; lunule rather prominent. Abdomen oval or oblong oval, convex; basal half of first segment black, posterior margin of black area cordate; a pair of sntll cream-colored spots on the sides of segmexttwo; on segment three two minute dots; apical segments without ornaments.
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