Published December 31, 1859 | Version v1

Prosopis malachisis

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Description

1. Prosopis malachisis.

P. nigro-caeruleo-viridis, nitida et delicatule punctata; alis hyalinis.

Female. Length 4 1 / 2 lines. Deep blue-green, with tints of purple in certain lights, particularly on the head, the clypeus with a central longitudinal ridge, its anterior margin slightly emarginate; the flagellum rufo-piceous beneath, the ocelli white. Thorax: the wings hyaline and brilliantly iridescent; the legs dark rufo-piceous with a bright purple tinge. Abdomen delicately punctured, the head and thorax more strongly so; the latter with a semicircular enclosed space at its base, which is smooth and shining.

Hab. Key Island.

Notes

Published as part of Smith, F., 1859, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the Islands of Aru and Key., pp. 132-158 in Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 3 on page 132

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Andrenidae
Genus
Prosopis
Species
malachisis
Taxon rank
species