Halictus swezeyi Cockerell

Cockerell, T. D. A., 1942, Halictine Bees from Rota Island, Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, pp. 191-194 : 191

1. Halictus swezeyi Cockerell .

I cannot clearly separate these from H. swezeyi which occurs on Guam. On the average, the abdomen is a darker, bluer green, but it is variable. They are less robust than H. saffordi, the area of metathorax has denser plicas, and the first recurrent nervure joins the third cubital cell (in H. saffordi it joins the second). In both sexes of H. swezeyi from Guam, I find the first recurrent nervure meeting the intercubitus.

Rota Island , July 23, eleven specimens .