beard entirely yellow

hairs underneath the proboscis yellow

palpal hairs on first segment yellow in male, black in female; on second segment black in both sexes

mesonotum in female with long recumbent yellow hairs present fringing posterior margins of postpronotal lobes and in diffuse band preceding scutellum; these areas and rest of disk with additional similarly-sized, sparse, erect yellow hairs, except on notopleural and intra-alar areas, where they are black; ground color of shiny black everywhere visible through vestiture; male similar, except that erect hairs are much less numerous and/or fall off more easily, resulting in a dorsum that is mostly bare

tuft of hairs in front of wings yellow

tuft of hairs in front of haltere yellow

scutellar hairs hairs on disk medium length, restricted to near base, black; apical portion of disk itself turgid and shiny black; hairs on scutellar margin long and black

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 both with yellow hairs anteriorly, dorsally, and posteriorly

hind tibiae yellow haired for slightly more than basal half on dorsal surface; black haired apically

hind femora thick line of light yellow hairs stretching dorsally from near base to about three fourths way to apex; "knee" or apex with conspicuous light yellow hairs