Double-banded Plushback

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Head

The face is concealed beneath white pollen and thick pure white pile that is more abundant on the frontal triangle. The facial stripe and cheeks are shining black. The eyes are pilose and Holoptic in male. Antennae are obscurely reddish or ferruginous with a bare arista.

Thorax

The scutum is black, clothed with yellowish-white pile in front, intermixed with blackish pile behind. In front of the suture is a conspicuous grayish pollinose broad band, and on each side with an oblique spot reaching from the root of the wing backward toward the scutellum. The scutellum is yellow, with a narrowly black base, and black pile female. Differs in the presence of a complete grayish band on the dorsum of the thorax in front of the scutellum The meron has fine pale hairs in front of or below spiracle.

Abdomen

First segment of abdomen black with the outer angles yellow. The second segment is light yellow, with a narrow median opaque black stripe not quite reaching the hind margin, and a little broader in front. The third segment is black with an anterior oval reddish yellow spot on each side, confluent with the yellow of the preceding segment, the hind border is yellow. …

external map This species is found in North and South America with the most common occurrences in the South East United States.