Pterodontia smithi Johnson, 1899
Head black, with yellow and brownish pile. Mouthparts short. Antennae yellow, inserted on lower half of head.
Thorax yellow thickly covered with long yellowish pile, a dorsal stripe about the width of the head extends to nearly opposite the base of the wings where it expands into a large spot.
Scutellum yellow with brown and yellowish pile and a round central black spot.
Wings hyaline, veins yellow. Wing with 5 closed cells; cell dm and proximal cell r 4+5 fused, forming a large single cell.
Abdomen tricolor, with brown and yellowish pile; with an irregular black central stripe and dark and light yellow transverse bands and with lateral quadrate black markings.
Legs with tibial spines; yellow with yellow pile, coxe and the under side of the fermora more or less tinged with brown, tips of the claws black.
Length 10 mm.
Original description:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4062398.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A8a7474968203ff0d70db0bacb7acf2f8&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1
Distribution: Somalia, Zimbabwe (Mutare and Harare), Zambia.
iNat observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106178383
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