Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis ( Olivier 1789: 64 )

Mawdsley, Jonathan R., 2018, New records and diagnostic notes on large carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: genus Xylocopa Latreille), from the Amazon River basin of South America, Insecta Mundi 631, pp. 1-15 : 5

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3699701

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3705524

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scientific name

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis ( Olivier 1789: 64 )
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Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis ( Olivier 1789: 64) View in CoL

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Known distribution. Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Guanabara, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Branco, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, São Paulo), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, México (Chiapas, Veracruz), Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela ( Hurd 1978: 79-80). Type locality: “Cayenne” ( Olivier 1789: 64).

Material examined. Brazil: Pará: Belém (1 male) , Óbidos (1 ♀, 1 ♂) , Pará (7 ♀, 1 ♂) ; Rondônia: Porto Velho (1 ♀), Porto Velho-Abunã Road km 65 (1 ♀). Peru: Huánuco: Tingo María (1 ♀). Venezuela: Ama- zonas, Cerro de la Neblina (1 ♀) .

Notes. Females of this species can be readily recognized by the unique transverse carina on the frons which has the median ocellus embedded in the center of the transverse carina. This species is an important pollinator of many tropical plant species ( Hurd 1978).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Xylocopa

Loc

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis ( Olivier 1789: 64 )

Mawdsley, Jonathan R. 2018
2018
Loc

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis ( Olivier 1789: 64 )

Olivier, G. A. 1789: 64
1789
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