Anthophora insularis

Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88 : 48-49

2. Anthophora insularis .

A. nigra, pube fulva vestita, faciei pube grisea.

Female. Length 7 lines. Black: the face, cheeks and thorax beneath clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the thorax above and on the abdomen is fulvous; the fifth segment of the abdomen with a mixture of black hairs; the legs have a fulvous pubescence outside; within it is black, it is also black at the apex of the plantae of the posterior legs. The mandibles, labrum, anterior margin of the clypeus and a narrow central longitudinal line, a minute spot above the clypeus, and the flagellum beneath, yellow; the tegulae yellow, the wings fulvo-hyaline.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

This species closely resembles both the A. vestita and the A. concinna , but is on comparison very distinct.