japonica

Yasumatsu & Hirashima

Taxon referenced in page Melittidae - Melitta
Author(s) : D. Michez
Diagnosis.
Female/male. Glossa longer than galea. Outer surface of galea mat and sculptured. Malar area shorter than A2. Posterior scutum, anterior scutellum and anterior metanotum densely punctate (i=d), smooth between punctures. Propodeal triangle with fine granular sculpture, mostly with conspicuous transverse horizontal wrinkles. Terga shiny. Metasoma black.
Female L=13mm. Clypeus flat, sparsely punctate (i=d), smooth between punctures, impunctate apically, with median impunctate line. Outer surface of legs 1-2 and ventral mesosoma with reddish to yellowish hair. T2-T4 with white, apical hair bands, longer than marginal zone. Prepygidial fimbria black medially, white laterally. Pp with lateral grooves.
Male. L=12.5mm. Face with whitish to yellowish hair, without narrow black lateral fringe. A3 as long as A4 (fig. 131). A4 longer than wide. A4-A12 slightly convex ventrally, with elliptical depression which ridged at margins. Distitarsus twice as long as wide. Hair on underside of F3 uniform in length. Disc of T1-T3 with reddish hair. Disc of T4-T6 with black hair. T2-T4 with sparse, white, apical hair bands. S6 with basal elevation and bushy hair apicolaterally. S7 with apicolateral process blade shaped. Column of S8 with a few lateral hairs. Apical plate of S8 flattened, three times as wide as long. Apex of gonostylus straight and pointed. Penis valve pointed apically. Digitus rounded apically.

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