Redivivoides karooensis, Kuhlmann, 2012

Kuhlmann, Michael, 2012, Revision of the South African endemic bee genus Redivivoides Michener, 1981 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 34, pp. 1-34 : 11-15

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https://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.34

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scientific name

Redivivoides karooensis
status

sp. nov.

Redivivoides karooensis sp. nov.

Figs 4, 7, 8

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Diagnosis

Females of R. karooensis sp. nov. can be separated from other Redivivoides species by a combination of the following characters: metasomal terga black to brown, T2 densely punctate with large punctures and surface between punctures smooth and shiny, white apical tergal hair bands present ( Fig. 7D), prepygidial and pygidial fimbria dark brown to black ( Fig. 7D). These characters also apply to males ( Fig. 8C) but the genitalia and S6 – S8 ( Fig. 8 D-H) should be checked to avoid potential confusion with the unknown male of R. eardleyi .

Etymology

Named after the Karoo, the arid region in western and central South Africa where this species was found.

Type material (22 specimens)

Holotype

♀, 9 Sep. 1994, V.B. Whitehead / Phyllopodium heterophyllum / SAM-HYM-B009461“ ( SAMC). SOUTH AFRICA: W. Cape, Sauer, Suurfontein , 3218DC, 18°40’ E, 32°50’ S. GoogleMaps

Paratypes

SOUTH AFRICA: 1 ♂, Farm Quaggaskop [31°19’ S, 18°39’ E], 29 Jul. 1992, M. Struck ( SAMC) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, 2 ♂♂, Garies, Sarrisam Farm , 3017DA [30°40’ S, 17°40’ E], 11 Aug. 1994, V.B. Whitehead, Phyllopodium pumilum ( SAMC, RCMK) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, Graafwater , 8 km West, 3218BA [32°10’ S, 18°40’ E], 24 Sep. 1998, V.B. Whitehead, ( SAMC) GoogleMaps ; 3 ♀♀, W. Cape, Rietvlei [32°09’ S, 18°46’ E], 282 m, 22 Sep. 2011, L. Packer ( LPCT) GoogleMaps ; 3 ♀♀, 19.6 km S of Citrusdal [32°43’ S, 19°02’ E], 6 Sep. 1991, K. Steiner, Phyllopodium heterophyllum ( SAMC) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, Sauer, Farm Suurfontein [32°50’ S, 18°33’ E], 13 Sep. 2001, V.B. Whitehead, Phyllopodium ( SAMC) GoogleMaps ; 4 ♀♀, Sauer, Suurfontein , 3218DC [32°50’ S, 18°40’ E], 25 Aug. 1994, V.B. Whitehead, Phyllopodium heterophyllum ( SAMC) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Sauer, Suurfontein , 3218DC [32°50’ S, 18°40’ E], 1 Sep. 1994, V.B. Whitehead, Phyllopodium heterophyllum ( SAMC) GoogleMaps ; 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂, Piketberg, Hartebeesrivier , 3218DC [32°50’ S, 18°40’ E], 23 Aug. 1991, V.B. Whitehead, Polycarena ( RCMK) GoogleMaps .

Description

Female

BODY LENGTH. 9.5-10.5 mm

HEAD. Head slightly wider than long. Integument black except mandibles and labrum largely dark reddish-brown. Face sparsely covered with long, yellowish-grey, erect hairs intermixed with black hairs especially along the inner eye margins and on vertex ( Fig. 7B). Clypeus slightly convex, apically narrowly impunctate; medially densely covered with medium-sized punctures that become gradually smaller and denser towards the lateral and upper margins; surface between punctures shiny or superficially shagreened ( Fig. 7B). Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna black, ventrally orange to reddish-brown.

MESOSOMA. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc between punctures smooth and shiny; disc densely (i = 0.5–1.0 d) and finely punctate ( Fig. 7C). Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum covered with long yellowish-brown erect hairs, black hairs intermixed on mesoscutum ( Fig. 7C).

WINGS. Yellowish-brown; wing venation brown.

LEGS. Integument black to dark reddish-brown. Vestiture of femora whitish-yellow, on tibiae and tarsi dark brown to black, scopae very sparse, dark brown to whitish-grey.

METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins of terga narrowly translucent reddish-brown ( Fig. 7D). T1 apically and T2 on disc sparsely covered with long erect yellowish-white hairs; T3 – T4 covered with short yellow to black hairs; apical tergal hair band missing on T1, on T2 – T4 broadly white ( Fig. 7A, D). Prepygidial and pygidial fimbriae black. T1 almost impunctate, polished and shiny, T2 – T4 shiny, with very fine, superficial and sparse punctation that becomes progressively denser on apical terga ( Fig. 7D).

Male

BODY LENGTH. 8.5-10.5 mm.

HEAD. Head slightly wider than long. Integument black except tip of mandible partly dark reddishbrown. Face densely covered with long, yellowish-brown, erect hairs intermixed with black hairs along the inner eye margins and on vertex. Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna black, ventrally yellowish to reddish-brown.

MESOSOMA. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc between punctures smooth and shiny or superficially shagreened; disc densely (i = 0.5-1.0 d) and finely punctate ( Fig. 8B). Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum covered with long yellowish-brown erect hairs, on scutellum black hairs intermixed.

WINGS. Yellowish-brown; wing venation brown.

LEGS. Integument black, tibiae and tarsi partly dark red-brown to yellowish-brown. Vestiture yellowishbrown.

METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins of terga narrowly translucent reddish-brown ( Fig. 8C). T1 – T3 covered with long erect yellowish-white hairs; T4 – T6 covered with short black hairs; apical tergal hair band missing on T1, on T2 – T5 narrow and sparse, white ( Fig. 8A, C). T1 almost impunctate, polished and shiny, T2 – T4 shiny, with very fine, superficial and sparse punctation that becomes progressively denser on apical terga ( Fig. 8C).

TERMINALIA. Genitalia ( Fig. 8 G-H), S6 ( Fig. 8D), S7 ( Fig. 8E) and terminal plate of S8 ( Fig. 8F) as illustrated.

Distribution

The species is known from a few places in southern Namaqualand and low lying areas west of the Cedarberg Mountains ( Fig. 4).

Floral hosts

Scrophulariaceae : Phyllopodium heterophyllum , Phyllopodium pumilum , Phyllopodium spec., Polycarena spec.

Seasonal activity

July – September.

SAMC

Iziko Museums of Cape Town

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Melittidae

Genus

Redivivoides