Talk:Ashmeadiella bigeloviae

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Description

Ashmeadiella bigeloviae is a smaller (5.2 to 6 mm), coarsely punctate bee, that is mostly black with the middle and hind legs largely red, with some hairs.

Females have the inner margins of their eyes converging and their heads have coarse and close punctation but the cheeks are more finely punctate than rest of head. Their clypeus is apically truncated, nearly as broad as distance from end of truncation to lateral angle of clypeus. Mandibles have three teeth. Their scutum has a distinct band of pubescence around it, so that there are no separate spots of pubescence anteriorly. The middle legs of females have red hind femora and tibiae, where the fore femora, middle tibiae, and hind metatarsi sometimes reddish in part. Looking closely at the inner margin of inner hind tibial spurs there are fourteen small teeth, outer margin with about nine large teeth; inner margin of outer spurs with about five large, oblique teeth, outer margin with about seven oblique teeth. Abdomen quite coarsely punctate; posterior margins of tergites reddish.

Male: Similar to female. Anterior margin of clypeus with concavity over half as long as basal width of clypeus and demarked by distinct angles; tarsi reddish; inner margin of inner hind tibial spurs with about twelve teeth, outer margin with about eight teeth; lateral teeth of sixth tergite short and acutely pointed, median teeth rather translucent, about as wide as long, rounded, concavity between them wider than a semi-circle. Length 4V2 to 5v2mm.

This species occurs in the desert and arid regions of northern Mexico, Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mccoshsm (talk • contribs) 22:59, 27 July 2020 (UTC)