Ctenoplectra chalybea

Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88 : 45

publication ID

2588

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297442

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ctenoplectra chalybea
status

 

1. Ctenoplectra chalybea View in CoL   HNS .

C. capite thoraceque nigris, abdomineque chalybeo, pedibus posterioribus dense pilosis.

Female. Length 6 lines. Head and thorax black: the head closely punctured; the clypeus shining, the punctures more scattered, and with a slight carina in the middle of its base; the scape in front, and the flagellum beneath, rufo-piceous; the mandibles ferruginous at their apex. Thorax opake-black: the metathorax smooth and shining in the middle of its base, the sides covered with sooty-black pubescence; wings fuscous, palest at their apical margins; the posterior tibiae and basal joint of the tarsi densely covered with long black pubescence, the inner pectinated calcar pale testaceous-yellow. Abdomen: steel-blue above, black beneath.

Hab. Malacca (Mount Ophir).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Ctenoplectra

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