Florilegus lanierii Guerin-Meneville

Florilegus lanierii (Guerin-Meneville)

SUBGENUS Florilegus (The bees of the World by Michener 2007)

9-11 mm long, with much yellowish hair.

MALE

• Hind tibia unmodified
• Hind femur convex beneaath
• Inner apical love of S7 broader than long, terminating in fringe of long hais
• Smaller forms with pale fascia (sometimes broken) on T2 and T3
• Scutellum more convex

FEMALE

• Hairs of maxilla and mentum simple,
• inconspicuous maginal cell longer tan distance from apex to wing tip
• scutellum less than 1/3 as long as scutum, convex
• first flagellar segment distinctly shorter than distance between posterior ocelli
• at least T3 with band of pale pubescence

Species description in “As especies do genero Florilegus Robertson, 1900 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)” p. 253.

• Yellow and black pubescence 
• scutellum normal, shorter than one third of the length of the mesocutum, not exceeding metanotum when viewed in profile.
• female scape is much longer than the first flagellar segment, generally with simple hairs on labio-maxillary complex.
• the males without modifications on the hind legs