Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
Nomada Granicheri, n. sp.—♀. Length, about 10½ mm.; black, with bright lemon-yellow markings, the only red is on base fo antennæ, legs, and a little on mandibles; mandibles simple; anterior coxæ without spines; basal nervure meeting transverso-medial; third antennal joint slightly longer than fourth. This is a Xanthidium with the face black in the middle and with yellow lateral marks, like teh European N. succincta.
* Dr, Graenicher writes that N. Graenicheri is probably parasitic on one of the late summer species of Andrena, as it occurs with them on Helianthus spp.