albitarse

Updated: May 12, 2025

Their habits are similar to those of the Pelopaeus- namely, they carry off the clay in their mandibles, and have a different song when they hasten away with the burden to that which they sing whilst at work. Trypoxylon albitarse, which is a large black kind, three-quarters of an inch in length, makes a tremendous fuss while building its cell.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons