nigricans

Alfken 1905

Taxon referenced in page Melittidae - Melitta
Author(s) : D. Michez
Diagnosis.
Female/male. Glossa elongated, as long as maxillary palpus. Outer surface of galea mat and sculptured. Malar area shorter than A2. Scutum mat and sculptured. Propodeum declivous. Metasoma black.
Female. L=11.1mm. Clypeus flat, with deep and sparse punctures (i>2d), sculptured between punctures. Center of scutellum with blackish-brown hairs. Base of propodeal triangle with central area slightly concave (figs 31-32), finely sculptured. Bt3 with pale hair. T2-T4 with yellowish-white, apical hair bands as long as marginal zone. Prepygidial fimbria mostly black medially, this smaller than lateral, white hairs.
Male. L=9.5mm. Clypeus convex, with median impunctate line. Antenna brown. A4-A12 slightly convex ventrally. Face with erect, white hairs, and narrow, black lateral fringe. Propodeal triangle finely rugose. Hairs on underside of F3 shorter than width of F3. Mt3 twice as wide as mediotarsus 3. Terga with dense, white, apical hair bands, shorter than marginal zone. Disc of T3 with black hair. Apical margin of S4-S5 emarginate. S6 as illustrated. Apicolateral process of S7 with long, yellow hair. S8 nearly hairless. Apical area of S8 circle shaped. Gonostylus truncate apically and flat ventrally. Penis valve wide basally. Digitus rounded apically.

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