Species Leia opima

Leia opima (Loew, 1869)

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From Johannsen 1911: "Head yellow, vertex and upper half of occiput fuscous; antennae fuscous, scape, first flagellar joint and palpi yellow. Thorax including scutellum yellow; dorsum shining, on each side with large, black, oval spot which is produced forward to the anterior third of thorax leaving only a narrow yellow vitta in the center; the metathoracic tubercles and the metanotum black. Pile yellow, on the darker parts, dusky. Abdomen largely black, the base of the second tergite and the anterior angles of the following ones, the hypopygium (Fig. 100) and the venter, yellow. Coxae and legs pale yellow, extreme apices of hind femora black, tarsi except their bases, fuscous black. Wings dilutely cinereous, veins fuscous; the preapical fascia paler toward the posterior margin; a fuscous spot covers the base of the crossvein and the petiole of the media; another spot is behind Cu2; (Fig. 205). Halteres yellow."

Wisconsin to Maine, south to Iowa and North Carolina. Also, Alberta and Wyoming. (1)