Augochlora buscki Cockerell

Augochlora buscki Cockerell

FEMALE (genus) (From The Bees of the World –  Michener 2007) 

• proboscis not so slender, prementum 4 to 8 times as long as broad; proboscidial fossa much wider than mandibular base
• inner hind tibial spur serrate, teeth shorter than wide, pointed or rounded, or margin of spur undulate or ciliate
• scopa and median slit or notch and area of fine hairs on T5 present; integument rarely so coarsely punctate
• labral process with strong median keel, usually pointed
• inner hind tibial spur with rounded serrations, preoccipital ridge sharply angled or carinate
• epistomal suture forming acute paraocular lobe protruding into clypeus
• clypeus relatively flat, green almost to apex
• anterior angle of hypostomal carina usually a sharp right angle or produced into spine
• apex of marginal cell narrowly truncate and usually appendiculate (not quite all the way touching the wing margin)

SPECIES (Female) (from: Some bees of the genus Augochlora from the west indies by TDA Cockerell, Proceedings of the national museum, volume 37, p.493)

• Length about 10 mm.;
• head and thorax brilliant bluegreen;
• abdomen yellowish-green, with purple tints laterally,
• the hind margins of the segments being very broadly black, the black largely suffused with purple ;
• head and thorax very densely and quite strongly pitted,
• the pits of the mesothorax separately visible under a lens;
• pubescence scanty, and poorly preserved in the specimen, but evidently short and black or mainly so on face and head and thorax above,
•  pallid on ventral surface;
•  head ordinary, not elongate, cheeks broad, and with a, small but evident tubercle beneath;
• eyes deeply emarginate;
• clypeus shining, with scattered punctures, its disk purple-tinted, but its upper margin narrowly golden-green;
• mandibles black, with a blue spot at base;
• antennnae dark;
• scutellum closely and minutely punctured,
• higihbous, with a ‘median sulcus; area of metathorax with numerous strong longitudinal strikes, which curve outwards a little just before reaching its outer edge;
•  posterior face of metathorax dulish, without any sharp rim;
•  tegula piceous with a rufous spot, the anterior base metallic;
• wings very dark reddish; stigma and nervures dark red-brown;
• first recurrent nervure joining second transverso-cubital, but toward outer side ;
•  legs brown-black, anterior femora blue-green behind;
•  hind spur microscopically serrate, the teeth dark;
• abdomen only moderately shining;
• venter with long hair, partly black and partly dull white.
• The claw-joints are ferruginous.