Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) columbiensis Perez , 1901

Lucia, Mariano & Gonzalez, Victor H., 2017, New species and designation of primary types in Neotropical carpenter bees of the genus Xylocopa Latreille (Hymenoptera, Apidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 61, pp. 31-48 : 33-35

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) columbiensis Perez, 1901 Figs 2-5

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) columbiensis Pérez, 1901: 94 (Lectotype: MNHN; ♀, Panama, Chiriquí) (new lectotype designation).

Diagnosis.

This species can be recognized by the combination of the following features: large body size (body length ~25 mm); pubescence black; integument dark brown to black throughout, with coxae and femora, apical margins of sterna, and T2-T4 brown; tegula black; wings dark brown with coppery highlights (Fig. 4 ); labrum basally with three longitudinally elongated tubercles; gena and supraocular areas sparsely punctate, punctures separated by ~2-3 times a puncture width; mesoscutellum (Fig. 3 ) weakly angled in profile; T1 and T2 densely punctate on discs, punctures small, separated by ~ 1-2 times a puncture width, punctures denser laterally; T3 sparsely punctate on disc, punctures small, separated by 2-3 times a puncture width (Fig. 5 ); T4-T6 with large punctures on discs, punctures separated by a puncture width; T1 with short, plumose and simple setae intermixed; discs of T2 and T3 with long (0.15-0.50 × OD), simple setae; T4-T6 with long (0.8-4.0 × OD), simple setae.

Comments.

Xylocopa columbiensis superficially resembles X. andica , X. nigrocincta , and X. suspecta . It can be separated from those species by the coloration and punctation of terga, as well as the coloration of terga and wings, as indicated in the diagnosis.

Xylocopa columbiensis was described from six specimens (three females and three males) and no holotype was designated. We examined these specimens, which are in the MNHN, and chose one of the females as the lectotype to stabilize the name. The label data for this specimen are as follows: Chiriqui [white label, handwritten] / Museum Paris, Coll. J. Pérez / Lectotype [red label] / Lectotype Xylocopa columbiensis Peréz des. M. Lucia & V.H. Gonzalez.

Distribution.

Panama ( Chiriquí), Peru ( Moure 2007).

Figures

Figures 2 - 5. Female lectotype of Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) columbiensis Perez. 2 Facial view 3 detail of mesoscutellum 4 Right fore and hind wings 5 detail of T 1 - T 3.