Scutellum mainly yellow haired on disc.Female: No frontal dust spots, frons entirely shiny.

Yellow spots of tergites 3 and 4 joined as bands reaching lateral margins.

Turkey, Ireland eastwards through Europe to European Russia, the Russian Far East, Siberia to the Pacific coast (Sakhalin and Kuril Isles), India, Nearctic from Alaska south to California and Texas.

[10] Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Caltha, Convolvulus, Euphorbia, Prunus padus, Ranunculus, Salix repens, Taraxacum, Tussilago, Ulex.

[11] The flight period is May to September (April to October in southern Europe).