Centris (Xanthemisia) maya, Vivallo & Vásquez-Lenis & Mérida-Rivas, 2023

Vivallo, Felipe, Vásquez-Lenis, Elder A. & Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., 2023, New species of Centris (Xanthemisia) Moure from the Mesoamerican Dominion and the Mexican Transition Zone (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 5351 (3), pp. 341-355 : 346

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.3.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9E744C2E-1E06-4C04-AF3E-25BD5A7B1BAA

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8391762

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/14E6A6FF-E9A4-4C32-ADC4-A4565BA58473

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:14E6A6FF-E9A4-4C32-ADC4-A4565BA58473

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Centris (Xanthemisia) maya
status

sp. nov.

Centris (Xanthemisia) maya sp. nov.

( Figures 9‒12 View FIGURES 9–12 )

Centris (Xanthemisia) lutea View in CoL ; Meléndez et al., 2016. 9(2): 732 (Probable identity).

Diagnosis. Female: Integument dark brown to black ( Figs. 9‒12 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Clypeus strongly coriaceous, with coarse and dense punctation on disc ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ). T4 with fine and dense punctation on anterior half, scattered towards distal margin ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Pubescence dark brown, except mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, axilla and anterior surface of tegula with intense yellow hairs ( Figs. 9, 10 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Central area of epistomal suture almost as arched as the central lower margin of clypeus ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Primary basitibial plate elliptical; secondary plate relatively rhomboidal ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Male: Unknown.

Holotype female. Measurements: Approximately body length: 16.7; head width: 5.5; intertegular span: 5.0; forewing length: 11.9; UID: 2.7; LID: 2.4; mandible length: 2.2; mandible basal width: 1.2; labrum length: 0.9; labrum width: 1.4; F1 length: 1.0; F2 length: 0.2; F3 length: 0.3; scape length: 1.0; diameter of median ocellus: 0.3; distance between lateral ocellus and compound eye: 0.7. Coloration: Integument dark brown to black ( Figs. 9, 10 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Wing membrane and veins dark brown ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Integument and sculpture surface: Clypeus strongly coriaceous, with coarse and dense punctation on disc, sparser near upper margin ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Labrum with coarse, dense and uniform punctation ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Area between lateral ocelli and the compound eye unpunctated. T4 with fine and dense punctation on anterior half, scattered towards distal margin ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Pubescence: Dark brown, except mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, axilla and anterior surface of tegula with intense yellow hairs ( Figs. 9, 10 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Structures: Mandible with five teeth, the fifth on the inner surface of the mandible ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Apices of first, second and fourth teeth acute, third tooth wider than the others, with broadly rounded apex. Trimmal angle almost straight. Acetabular carina reaching the base of third tooth ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Central area of epistomal suture almost as arched as the central lower margin of clypeus ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Clypeal disc flat (lateral view) ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Vertex above the upper interocular tangent ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Labrum relatively semicircular, wider than long ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Inner orbits of compound eyes converging downward ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Fore elaiospathe with primary anterior comb compact located from the strigilar cavity to the apex of fore basitarsus; secondary anterior comb formed by two giant, long, apically curved hairs. Hairs of hind elaiospathe forming a compact comb. Primary basitibial plate elliptical; secondary plate relatively rhomboidal ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 9–12 ). Pygidial plate with preapical lateral constriction and broadly rounded apical margin.

Type material. Holotype female: Mex, QROO Othon P. Blanco 136 m 18.72 N; 89.13 W 29/4/2018 ECOAB.120907 [QR code]\ Centris (Xanthemisia) sp. 03F ♀ det. Sagot 2018 ( ECOAB). GoogleMaps

Type locality and distribution. MEXICO: Quintana Roo State: Othón P. Blanco [Nuevo Bécar] (latitude: 18.724; longitude: 89.131; 136 masl) ( Fig. 19 View FIGURE 19 ) .

Etymology. The epithet refers to the Mayan culture that has a large presence in the Yucatán peninsula, as well as in other parts of the State of Quintana Roo where the holotype was collected. This new species is dedicated to them.

Floral record. Unknown.

Comment. Centris maya sp. nov. is similar to C. jakalteka sp. nov. However, they differ by the clypeal surface (strongly coriaceous, with coarse and dense punctation on disc, sparser near upper margin in C. maya sp. nov. ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ); coriaceous, with coarse and dense punctation at lateral sides; disc shiny with an irregular perpendicular unpunctated area in the middle in C. jakalteka sp. nov. ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–4 )), by the punctation on T4 (fine and dense on anterior half, scattered towards distal margin in C. maya sp. nov. ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 9–12 ); relatively uniform except at distal margin in C. jakalteka sp. nov. ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1–4 )), by the shape of the central area of the epistomal suture in relation to the central lower margin of clypeus (almost equally arched in C. maya sp. nov. ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–12 ); more arched in C. jakalteka sp. nov. ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–4 )), and by the morphology of the primary and secondary basitibial plates (primary plate elliptical and secondary relatively rhomboidal in C. maya sp. nov. ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 9–12 ); both plates relatively rhomboidal with rounded lateroinferior margins in C. jakalteka sp. nov. ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1–4 )).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Centris

SubGenus

Centris

Loc

Centris (Xanthemisia) maya

Vivallo, Felipe, Vásquez-Lenis, Elder A. & Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A. 2023
2023
Loc

Centris (Xanthemisia) lutea

♁ Det Sagot 2013
2013
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