Anthophora elegans

Smith, F., 1859, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the Islands of Aru and Key., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 3, pp. 132-158 : 135

2. Anthophora elegans .

A. nigra, pube capitis thoracisque nigra, abdomine fasciis quatuor laete caeruleis ornato; tibiis posticis ferrugineo-pubescentibus.

Female. Length 6 lines. Black; the labrum, a narrow line down the middle and another on each side of the clypeus, a minute spot above, it, and the scape in front testaceous yellow, the base of the mandibles of a paler colour; the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax: the pubescence black; wings subhyaline, the nervures dark rufofuscous, tegulae obscurely testaceous. Abdomen with four fasciae of brilliant blue, which is changeable, with pearly tints in different lights; the posterior tibiae densely clothed outside with fulvo-ferruginous pubescence; the pubescence inside is black.

Hab. Key Island.