Published December 31, 1859 | Version v1

Agenia Callisto.

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Description

2. Agenia Callisto.

A. nigra, pilis sericeis vestita; facie thoraceque subtus pube argentato-alba dense vestitis; alis fasciis duabus angustia.

Female. Length 8 lines. Black; the face, clypeus, and cheeks with a dense silvery-white pile; the tips of the mandibles obscurely ferruginous, the palpi black. Thorax with a brilliant silvery-white pile on the sides, beneath, and on the coxae; the metathorax transversely rugose; the wings hyaline; the anterior pair with a narrow fuscous fascia at the apex of the externo-medial cell, and a second rather broader at the base of the marginal cell, which does not quite cross the wing; the apex of the wing fuscous. Abdomen petiolated, smooth and shining, with a beautiful glossy pile, which is most dense at the sides; the apical segment longitudinally subcarinated in the middle above.

Hab. Aru.

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 154

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Callisto.
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Pompilidae
Genus
Agenia
Taxon rank
genus