A Flavous Nomad Bee searches for the mining bee nests she parasitises among leaf litter and fallen twigs. She is a small, slender bee with a black, yellow and red striped abdomen, black thorax with dark red markings, black face with red markings, red eyes and legs, and orange antennae. The hair around her head and thorax is buff-coloured.

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