Fig. 12 in A review of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Epeolus Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico

Fig. 12. Pseudopygidial area of female, dorsal view. A. E. fumipennis Say, 1837, which consists of a basal impressed triangular or semicircular portion covered in silvery short, appressed setae differentiated from a transverse band of coppery short, appressed setae along the posterior-facing apical margin of T5. B. E. bifasciatus Cresson, 1864, which is more than twice as wide as long. C. E. obscuripes Cockerell, 1917 stat. nov., which is not more than twice as wide as long. The pseudopygidial area is the apical portion of T5 that changes slope from the rest of the tergum and is covered in short, coppery or silvery hairs uniform in length (posteromesad the light blue lines). Scale bars = 1 mm.Published as part of Onuferko, Thomas M., 2019, A review of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Epeolus Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico, pp. 1-69 in European Journal of Taxonomy 563 on page 26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.563, http://zenodo.org/record/347674