Heriades micheneri Timberlake, 1947

Rojas-Arias, Laura, Griswold, Terry, Hinojosa-Díaz, Ismael, Morrone, Juan J. & Barajas, Ricardo Ayala, 2025, Neotropical bees of the genus Heriades Spinola, 1808 (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae: Osmiini) with description of nine new species, Zootaxa 5570 (2), pp. 201-259 : 241-242

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( Figs. 2A View FIGURE 2 , 24–25 View FIGURE 24 View FIGURE 25 )

Heriades (Neotrypetes) micheneri Timberlake, 1947 . Two new species of bees from Arizona ( Hymenoptera, Apoidea ). The PanPacific Entomologist. Vol. XXIII. No. 1:26.

Type locality: Patagonia, Arizona, on damp sand, August 8, 1940 (Timberlake).

Holotype female: UCRC.

Diagnosis. Small-sized bees (males 5.5–5.8 mm, n=5; females 5.6–6.1 mm, n=3), ocelli medium-size ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ); punctation large along the whole body ( Fig. 3F View FIGURE 3 ); dorsolateral angles of pronotum with tuft of plumose, short, whitish to yellowish hairs; tergal fasciae with row of thick, whitish hairs ( Fig. 25C, D View FIGURE 25 ); body with plumose hairs in well-defined tufts; frons, disc of scutum, mesepisternum and terga with bare areas. Male: outer surface of mandible without tubercles; clypeus covered by plumose, long, white hairs directed medially ( Fig. 25A View FIGURE 25 ); hypostomal area with plumose, long, white hairs, length surpassing mandible; S1 with strong ventral process, in profile when sides of process projected forming a right angle ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 Aa), in posterior view with top semi circled ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 Ac); S5 with two quadrangular lobes with acute strong angles on sides, and a few lines of simple, short thick hairs, increasing length outwards, with one transverse line of capitate hairs increasing in length outwards ( Fig. 25E View FIGURE 25 ); S6 with two tufts of simple, short, thin hairs, directed downward, all hairs the same length ( Fig. 25F View FIGURE 25 ). Female: similar to male, but without plumose hairs on clypeus ( Fig. 25C View FIGURE 25 ), this species is similar to H. danuncia sp. nov ( Fig. 23B, D View FIGURE 23 ).

Additional material examined: MEXICO: Chihuahua, Santo Niño , 1426 m, 27.52222222 -104.8372222, 10/VIII/1968, T. A. Sears, R. C. Gardner, C. S. Glaser ( BBSL 1♂) GoogleMaps . Sinaloa, Choix. 1miN, 442 m, 26.72861111 -108.2975, 30/VII/1968, T. A. Sears, R. C. Gardner, C. S. Glaser ( BBSL 1♀) GoogleMaps , 4miNW, 442 m, 26.72861111 - 108.2975, 31/VIII/1968, T. A. Sears, R. C. Gardner, C. S. Glaser ( BBSL 1♂) GoogleMaps , 5.5miNW, 465 m, 26.72805556 -108.2961111, 5/IX/1968, T. A. Sears, R. C. Gardner, C. S. Glaser ( BBSL 1♀ 1♂) GoogleMaps . Sonora, Alamos , 440 m, 27.02555556 -108.9413889, 3/IX/1991, L. M. Godinez (EBCh 1♂) GoogleMaps , 13KmW, 387 m, 27.02555556 -108.9413889, 01/IX/1975, B. Villegas ( BBSL 1♀) GoogleMaps . Carbo , 15miS, [469 m, 29.68972222 -110.9566667], 27/IX/1977, J. Chemsak & Michelbachers ( BBSL 1♂) GoogleMaps . San Carlos , [25 m, 27.97444444 -111.0377778], 30/IX/1970, GE, RM Bohart ( BBSL 15♀ 43♂) GoogleMaps , 6kmNNW, 25 m, 27.97444444 -111.0377778, 11, 15/VIII/1983, E. Fisher ( BBSL 2♂) GoogleMaps . Bahía San Carlos nr. Guacamayas , [0 m, 27.94611111 -111.0616667], 14/VII/1963, R. L. Westcott ( BBSL 2♂) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. This species is present in the states of Arizona and New Mexico in the United States, and in Mexico in the states of Chihuahua, Sonora and northern Sinaloa, mostly in xeric areas of the Sonoran, Sierra Madre Occidental and Chihuahuan biogeographic provinces ( Morrone et al. 2022). Altitudinal range: sea level to 1426 m ( Fig. 24 View FIGURE 24 ).

Comments. The size of ocelli varies but seems to be always bigger than the surrounding punctures on the vertex. The color on tufts of dorsolateral angles of pronotum and others varies from a yellowish white to orange but more frequently they are orange on H amanda sp. nov.