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Agapostemon - Agapostemon melliventris - female

Agapostemon - Agapostemon melliventris - Female
Colorado River, Grand Canyon National Park, Mojave County, Arizona, USA
June 5, 2015
ID: L04152, RM: 245, Coll. J. Stachursky, F4TS black fluorescent light
368 m, Lat, Lon: 35° 49' 21.36N, 113° 37' 41.16"W
Deposited in the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) for the National Park Service

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Female - Honey-bellied Agapostemon
Based on the light coloring of the first abdominal segment, she keys to: ♀ Agapostemon melliventris
Here is a summery of things to check:
1. - Female gender (10 flagellomeres and hairy legs) = 2
2. - Metasomal terga black to pale amber, not concolorous with metallic head and mesosoma = 7
7. - Posterior lobe of pronotum metallic at apex, never creamy or yellow; clypeus with or without yellow transverse band = 8
8. - Clypeus with transverse apical or subapical yellow band; metasoma black or pale amber = 9
9. - Pronotum without conspicuous sharp carina extending postero-ventrally from lateral angle (may have several small carinulae); metasomal terga pale amber to black, with white tomentum on basal halves; scape sometimes marked with yellow = 12
12. - Dorsal area of propodeum moderately to coarsely rugose; scape often marked with yellow; metasomal terga amber to black or black with amber anteriorly on tergum 1 = species melliventris Cresson (1874)

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