About Halictus scabiosae (Rossi, 1790)
Halictus scabiosae (Rossi, 1790) has a long abdomen with yellowish stripes, including a double band on the second and third tergites. Its legs are yellow, while the antennae are entirely black and curved at the apex. Male individuals of this species have a very elongated body, and a whitish posterior band on abdominal segments two through six. Females have yellowish-beige basal hair bands on tergites two through four. This species is very similar to its close relative Halictus sexcinctus, so the two can be easily confused. They can be told apart by the features of H. sexcinctus: males of this species have longer, reddish antennae, and females lack the basal hair bands seen on female H. scabiosae. This species is distributed across most of Europe and in North Africa.
