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A small, 4-6.5mm body length, reddish nomad usually with small yellow spots on the sides of tergite 2 and 3. Females have extensive red markings on the head and the sides of the thorax, plus a pair of large red scutellar spots and red longitudinal stripes above the wing bases and usually a pair down the middle of the scutum. Males resemble females, but have a darker head and thorax and the antennal scape is usually entirely black. Nomada flavoguttata is a widespread and locally common nomad that has both a spring and summer generation so can be seen anytime from March through to September. Habitat is variable dependent on its target species, which are the smaller Andrena ‘mini- minors’.