melittoides

(Viereck 1909)

Taxon referenced in page Melittidae - Melitta
Author(s) : D. Michez
Diagnosis.
Female/male. Maxillary palpus five-segmented. Outer surface of galea smooth. Labrum shiny. Malar area as long as A3. Scutum and scutellum sparsely punctured (i>3d), smooth between punctures. Propodeal triangle with fine, granular sculpture, concave. Fore wing with first recurrent vein meeting weak Rs+M in middle of second submarginal cell. Terga shiny. Metasoma black.
Female. L=11.6mm. Mandible slightly longer than eye, flattened apically, blade pointed, without pre-apical tooth, with two small teeth on inner margin. Clypeus with few punctures, sculptured between punctures. Legs with yellowish hairs. T1 with interrupted, white, apical hair band. T2-T4 with continuous, white, apical hair bands. Prepygidial fimbria brownish-black. Pp with median area slightly elevated.
Male. L=10.6mm. A3 shorter than A4. A4 twice as long as wide. A4-A12 slightly convex ventrally. Face with whitish hair, with few lateral black hairs. T2-T4 with sparse apical hair bands. Apical margin of S5 emarginate. Apicolateral process of S6 broadly expanded. S7 with apicolateral process blade shaped. Column of S8 with median carina. Gonostylus apically bifid.

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