cameroni

(Cockerell 1910)

Taxon referenced in page Melittidae - Melitta
Author(s) : D. Michez
Diagnosis.
Female/male. Glossa longer than head. Outer surface of galea mat and sculptured. Malar area longer than A3. Clypeus nearly as wide as long. Scutum with reddish and black hair intermixed. Propodeal triangle mat, with fine granular sculpture, carinate antero-laterally. Fore wing with first recurrent vein meeting weak Rs+M in middle of second submarginal cell.
Female. L=13.7mm. Clypeus with dense, deep punctures (i=d), sculptured between punctures, with impunctate median line. Disc of T1-T2 with yellowish hair. Disc of T3-T5 with short black hairs. T2-T4 with yellowish-white, apical, hair bands, as long as marginal zone. Prepygidial fimbria black, with a few white hairs. Pp with median elevated area.

Male. L=13mm. Face with white hair, and black lateral fringe. A3 as long as A4. A5-A12 slightly convex ventrally. Bt3 twice as wide as mediotarsus 3. T2-T4 with white, apical hair bands. Disc of T3-T5 with black hair. S6 with long, sparse, brown hairs apically. S7 with apicolateral process blade-shaped. Column of S8 short, nearly hairless. Apex of gonostylus curved ventrally. Digitus pointed apically.

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