eickworti

Snelling & Stage

Taxon referenced in page Melittidae - Melitta
Author(s) : D. Michez
Diagnosis.
Female/male. Labial palpus longer than glossa. Galea with outer surface smooth, pointed apically. Maxillary palpus shorter than galea. Malar area as long as length of A2. Propodeal triangle with median transversal carina. Scutum smooth between punctures. Metasoma black and shiny.
Female. L=11.3mm. Clypeus with sparse punctures (i>2d), sculptured between punctures. Inner eye margins and vertex without blackish hair. Head and mesosoma with reddish hair. Disc of T2-T4 with sparse, scattered punctures. Prepygidial fimbria black with a few white hairs laterally. Pygidial plate with narrow, median carina.
Male. L=7.6mm. Antenna brown. A3 shorter than A4. A4-A12 slightly convex ventrally. Disc of T2-T4 sparsely punctate (i>d). T2-T4 with sparse apical hair bands. S3-S5 with premarginal line slightly emarginate. S6 with convex apical margin. S7 with lateral process blade shaped. S8 nearly hairless. Apical area of S8 smooth, triangular. Gonostylus pointed apically. Digitus rounded apically.

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