- is
about 7 mm in length. Body
piceous brown or
black with dull
white scales.
Elytra dull
white in
color with nine
piceous black spots. In the
median area...
-
including legs,
spurs and tegulae;
wings deeply infuscated,
veins brownish to
piceous,
somewhat shining but
minutely roughened median area
Worker 10.5 mm 4–6...
- with a
black prothorax and
venter and a
piceous elytra covered in
white scales, as is the
venter and
piceous antennas,
which are segmented. The femur...
-
narrowed in front.
Ventrum with
fairly dense whitish scales.
Antennae piceous.
Prothorax broader than long, with
moderately rounded lateral sides. Scutellum...
- pius pi-
dutiful piety, pious, pittance, pity pix pic- Picea, picene,
piceous,
pitch planca planc-
plank planch planta plant- sole implant, implantable...
- pius expiate, impious, piety, pious, pity pic-
pitch Latin pix,
picis piceous piez-
squeeze Gr**** πιέζειν (piézein), πιεστός (piestós), πίεσις, πίεσμα...
-
moderately prominent.
Rostrum as long as broad, and parallel-sided.
Antennae piceous.
Prothorax as long as broad, with
rounded sides, and
broadest at middle...
- Lanka. This
species has a body
length is
about 5 to 7.5 mm. Body
black or
piceous with grey and
brown scales.
Dorsal surface of the
prothorax is dark brown...
- (Edmund, 1979, p. 415).
Males have a medium-sized, convex, integument-
piceous bodies covered in a
pattern of pale
markings and
minute brown vestiture...
-
America This species'
pronotum and
elytra appear uniform in
color with a
piceous to
black appearance with characteristic,
contrasting rufous lateral margins...
