iberica

Warncke 1973

Taxon referenced in page Melittidae - Melitta
Author(s) : D. Michez
Diagnosis.
Female/male. Glossa shorter than labial palpus. Outer surface of galea mat and sculptured. Malar area shorter than A2. Scutum densely punctate (iFemale. L=13mm. Clypeus twice as wide as long, with median impunctate line. Vestiture on face reddish, vertex brown. Scutum with black hair centrally, reddish marginally. Outer surface of leg 1 with brown hair. Legs 2-3 with reddish hair. Disc of T1 with erect, reddish hair. Disc of T2-T4 with a few appressed, short, black hairs. T1-T4 with dense white apical hair bands, hairs longer laterally than medially, those on T2-T4 continuous. Prepygidial fimbria entirely black. Pp with median elevated area.
Male. L=12mm. A3 shorter than A4. A4-A12 slightly convex ventrally. Face with reddish hair, and narrow black lateral fringe. Bt3 as wide as mediotarsus 3. T2-T4 without apical hair bands. Disc of T1-T3 with erect, reddish hair. Disc of T4-6 with black hair. Apical margin of S3-S5 slightly convex. S6 with apicomedian area nearly hairless, with long, bushy, black hairs apicolaterally. S7 with apicolateral process blade shaped. S8 nearly hairless, with apical plate oval shaped. Gonostylus truncated apically, shorter than penis valve. Digitus rounded apically.

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