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beard in male, entirely yellow posterioly and dorsally, anteriorly with a line of black hairs along posterior margin of lower two-thirds of compound eye; female identical, except that the line of black hairs bordering the eye is thicker, and enlarges as it proceeds ventrally, to occupy entire "depth" of beard hairs underneath the proboscis yellow in male, black in female palpal hairs black on both first and second segments
mesonotum covered, except for notopleural areas, with long, erect yellow hairs, which let the ground color of blue black show through, the two together producing an olive green tint when viewed from a distance; these yellow hairs increase slightly in length on posterior calli; notopleurae with black hairs; recumbent hairs absent tuft of hairs in front of wings black tuft of hairs in front of haltere entirely black scutellar hairs disk covered with medium-length to long black hairs, grading into long black hairs on margin ground color of legs from a distance the ground color appears to be black, but when viewed with a dissecting microscope, from an angle the surface appears to be blue black, and when viewed directly, that is from right angles, with artificial light, it appears to be very dark reddish brown; the surface is also highly reflective and where yellow hairs are present on the tibiae, reflects these as light reddish brown fore- and mid-tibiae fore-tibiae with long yellow hairs dorsally and posteriorly, mid-tibiae with long yellow hairs anteriorly, dorsally, and posteriorly hind tibiae male with long, light-yellow hairs dorsally and posteriorly on mesal half; these light-colored hairs are not very prominent; tibiae black-haired in female hind femora thick line of bright yellow hairs stretching dorsally from near base to about three fourths way to apex, "knee" or apex black haired
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