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yellow pile. The Face honey yellow or whitish yellow. An obscure dark stripe noted below the antennal prominence The sides of the face are clothed with thin white pollen. The gena is black. In profile the face is moderately concave on the upper half, almost perpendicular below. The face in the female is less deeply concave above. The antennae first two segments are black or brown. The flagellum is broadly yellow on the basal half; in shape transversely broadly oval and rather large. The arista is yellow and darker apically. The frontal prominence is elongate and obtusely conical. The pile is very short, white and limited to the lower sides of the frontal prominence. The eyes are subcontiguous in males. The occiput is greyish yellow pollinose, with long yellow pile below.
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right angle near to the middle of the segment. Their lateral ends broadened and reaching narrowly along the lateral margins nearly reaching the posterior angles, yellow; the spots rarely narrowly connected along the base of the segment. Third segment yellow spot is highly variable from a small lateral wedge to a crescent only slightly smaller than the spot on the second segment. The posterior margin of the fourth segments are reddish or reddish yellow. The venter is black,. The pile of the abdomen is yellow, somewhat cinereous on the apical median portion of the second and third segments. The third abdominal segment with a much narrower crescent-shaped spot than that on the second, its inner ends obsolete (indistinct).
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The legs are yellow with black bands as follows: apical third or more of the femora shining black, tibiae except the middle ones, with an obscure subapical brownish or blackish band, anterior tarsi and last two segments of the posterior four, black or brown, posterior basitarsi brownish above, except
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The abdomen is shining black with variable yet distinctive yellow markings. The first segment narrow with single lateral spots on the lateral corners touching segment two. The sides of the second segment are marked with crescent-shaped spots, medial ends truncate and reaching rearward nearly at a
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The dorsum of the thorax (scutum) is blackish green with yellow above the wings (postalar calus) and the lateral margins of the scutum behind the suture is yellow. Humeri are yellow with yellow pile. The pile of the scutum is yellow. The scutellum is blackish green with yellow pile and with a wide
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