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Extracted from: Robertson, C. (1897). North American Bees - Description and Synonyms. Transactions of the Academy of Science od St. Louis. Vol. 7. No. 14.
Black, opaque, the base of abdomen shining; head, thorax
and legs with rather long, whitish pubescence, more close on
clypens, cheeks and thorax beneath; mandibles, except base,
rufous; antennae dull ferruginous beneath, short, joints increasing
in length from second to fourth; fourth and following
joints subequal; lllesonotllm rather closely and strongly
punctured, with median and lateral raised lines; metathorax
strongly reticulated, with a semicircular inclosllre ; teglllae
testaceous exteriorly; wings hyaline, nervurcs testaceous,
stigma black; legs black, apical joints of tarsi ferruginous;
abdomen almost impullctate at base, towards apex closely and
.finely punctu red, fiL'st and fourth segments at apex and the
second and third entirely ferruginous. Length 10 mm.
~lichigan; one d specimen.
Dedicated to :Mr. G. C. Davis, of l\lichigan Agricultural
College, from whom the specimen was received. No reliance
need be placed on the definite limitation of the red color of
abdomen in the description of a single specimen. This is
the largest male 8pltecodes I have seen.
Extracted from: Mitchell, T. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States, I. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. 1-191.
MALE-Length 8 mm.; head and thorax
black, abdomen ferruginous medially, the
basal segment and apical half more or less
blackened; head considerably broader than
long; eyes somewhat convergent below; clypeus quite strongly convex, with a very faint
median impression; mandibles black basally,
becoming dark reddish at tip; antennae black,
basal segment of flagellum slightly broader
than long, 2nd and following segments slightly
longer than broad; lateral ocelli subequally
distant from eps and each other; lower half
of face obscured by dense, white pubescence,
clypeus rather coarsely and very closely punctate beneath the pubescence, upper part of face
dull, rather coarsely and very densely punctate, punctures being very close even on vertex
between eyes and ocelli, hind margin becoming rather coarsely rugose; cheeks reticulate
above, becoming rugoso-striate below, ventral
surface very narrowly smooth and shining;
wings subhyaline, with the usual three submarginal cells, veins brownish-testaceous,
stigma piceous; tegulae yellowish-hyaline; legs
black, only the apical tarsal segments at all
brownish; scutum and scutellum rather dull,
punctures coarse, deep and very close in large
part, the anterior third of scutum being rugosopunctate, and punctures very close between
notaulices and tegulae, distinctly separated
only near posterior margin of scutum, those
on scutellum coarse, irregular and only slightly separated in center; pleura coarsely rugose,
hypoepimeral area being somewhat more
reticulate; dorsal area of propodeum coarsely
reticulate, rather broad, with a distinct, rounded, posterior border, lateral faces irregularly
striate anteriorly, becoming coarsely reticulate posteriorly, and posterior face very coarsely reticulate; abdominal terga smooth and
shining, basal tergum with very fine, widely
scattered, sparse punctures, tergum 2 rather closely and deeply although finely punctate
across basal half, 3 somewhat more fully punctate, apical margins of all broadly impressed,
entirely impunctate, concolorous in general
with the basal portions of discs; gonostyli (fig.
117) slightly exceeding tips of penis valves,
short, slightly dilated apically, recurwd ventrally toward the midline, with a very small
apical process that bears a few fine setae, and
inner margin bearing a short fringe of setae.
DISTRIBUTION-Minnesota and Ontario to New York and the New England
states; July to October.
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