Pelopoeus laboriosus

Smith, F., 1859, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the Islands of Aru and Key., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 3, pp. 132-158 : 159

1, Pelopoeus laboriosus ,

P. niger; scapo antice, pedibus petioloque rufescenti-flavis, alis hyalinis fulvo tinctis,

Female. Length 12 lines. Black, with black pubescence on the head and thorax; the face with a fine cinereous pile; the scape yellow in front; the mandibles smooth and shining. Thorax: the legs pale ferruginous, the posterior femora darkest; the coxae, the anterior and intermediate trochanters, and base of the femora black; wings fulvohyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the metathorax obliquely striated. Abdomen slightly shining at the base, with the petiole reddishyellow.

Hab. Aru,