Augochlora (Oxystoglossella) modica Lepeco and Gonçalves, 2020

Lepeco, Anderson & Gonçalves, Rodrigo Barbosa, 2023, A review of Augochlora (Oxystoglossella) bees from South America: unexpected Amazonian diversity and assessment of vulnerable species, Journal of Natural History (Oxford, England) 57 (9 - 12), pp. 608-664 : 641

Augochlora (Oxystoglossella) modica Lepeco and Gonçalves, 2020

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Augochlora (Oxystoglossella) modica Lepeco and Gonçalves, 2020 . Holotype female (DZUP) from Brazil, Paraíba, Santa Luzia. Examined.

Diagnosis

Augochlora modica females have a tuberculate S1 and males have S4 with a tuft of thick setae on medioapical margin ( A. mendax species group). Females are green (not dark green) with metapostnotum not entirely carinate-rugulose, being similar to A. mendax , but can be separated by the metapostnotum with longitudinal rugae and posterior surface loosely imbricate, shiny. Male hind basitarsus is slightly narrowed apically and S5 strongly depressed transversally on median surface; from other species it can be separated by the metapostnotum posterior surface smooth, without carinae.

Distribution

Brazil (Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe).

Examined material

Supplemental material.

Figures

Figure 13. Map of distribution records for Oxystoglossella of the A. aurinasis and A. modica species groups: (A) A. almeidai, A. aurinasis and A. meloi sp. nov.; (B) A. eucnemis, A. lamellata sp. nov., A. mineira sp. nov. and A. rightmyerae; (C) A. mendax and A. modica; (D) A. simplex sp. nov. and A. tenax.