Lophopedia savanicola, Aguiar, Antonio J. C., 2009

Aguiar, Antonio J. C., 2009, Taxonomic revision of the bee genus Lophopedia Michener and Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini), Zootaxa 2193, pp. 1-52 : 46-49

Lophopedia savanicola sp.nov.

( Figs. 13 , 22 , 90−97 )

Comments and Diagnosis. Lophopedia savanicola sp.nov. is quite similar to Lophopedia pulchra sp.nov. and L. nigriceps by the pattern bicolor of integument. Lophopedia savanicola sp.nov. is mainly recognized by the wing membrane mostly yellow hyaline with pale yellow microtrichia. It can be easily distinguished from L. pulchra sp.nov. by the yellow mark on omaular area of the brown mesepisternum, and can be distinguished from L. nigriceps by the mesoscutum mostly dark brown.

Distribution: BRAZIL: Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, São Paulo ( Fig. 22 ).

Description. Holotype male. Body length: 6.48. Color. Integument mostly yellow; frons pale brown with two large ellipsoid yellow spots on disc; vertex with a yellow spot on eye margin; flagellomeres brown; mesoscutum brown with two thin yellow stripes on disc and other two on lateral margins; mesepisternum slightly brown on lower portion; hind leg slight brown; terga with marginal zone pale brown; wing membrane slight yellow infumated, hyaline on apical portion; wing veins light yellow; tibial spurs pale white. Pubescence. Integument mostly glabrous; pubescence on the head, mesosoma, and fore legs mostly pale yellow; pubescence on the middle and hind legs, and margins of terga mostly dark brown. Labrum with plumose short hairs on the lower third; clypeus mostly glabrous; paraocular area with sparse short plumose hairs; antennal scrobe and vertex with short dense plumose pubescence; frons disc with sparse short simple setae; gena with dense plumose pubescence, lower third with long simple setae; scape with short simple setae, less than 1x F2 diameter. Mesoscutum with very short sparse plumose hairs, intermingled with few sparse simple setae, ca. 0.05 mm length; scutellum with dense plumose hairs covering most of its surface, intermingled with sparse simple setae, ca. 0.15 mm length; mesepisternum mostly glabrous, with sparse simple setae, mainly on lower portion; metapostnotum with sparse plumose hairs, ca. 0.09 mm in length; T1−T3 with sparse simple setae, without marginal bands of hairs; T4–T6 with marginal band of brown plumose hairs, on T4 almost complete, on T5−T6, complete. S2 with simple setae on margin, sinuous on the middle, disposed in a “V” shape; S3 with sparse simple setae; S4 with dense plumose decumbent hairs on margin, with lateral portions as long convergent fringes; S5 mostly glabrous; S6 with numerous simple setae on the apical portion. Integument sculpture. Clypeus and supraclypeal area with very coarse and contiguous punctures (<0.5 pd); paraocular area with sparse fine punctures (0.5−2 pd); antennal scrobe with finely minute punctures (1 pd); frons disc with coarse punctures (0.5−2 pd), integument between the punctures smooth and shiny; mesoscutum with finely minute punctures (> 1 pd), intermingled with very sparse and coarse punctures (>3 pd); scutellum with finely minute punctures (>0.5−1 pd), intermingled with fine punctures (1−2 pd); mesepisternum wit sparse coarse punctures (2−3 pd); metapostnotum with sparse finely minute punctures (> 2 pd). Structure. Head: width, 2.20, length, 1.97; clypeus: length, 0.65, width, 0.98; maximum T2 width: 2.28; lower interocular distance: 1.04; upper interocular distance: 1.28; scape: maximum width, 0.15, length, 0.53; length of F1−F3: 0.15, 0.09, 0.17; F2 diameter: 0.17; fore wing length, including tegulae: 6.44. Pronotal lamella almost contacting the mesoscutum on mid portion. Scutelum weakly convex, almost flat.

Female. (paratype; DZUP\ 162022). Body length: 7.44. Color. Similar to male, but darker; with large patches of reddish brown integument. Frons completely dark brown; upper paraocular area with a small faint yellow spot; mesoscutum black with thin yellow stripes on disc and lateral margins, yellow stripes on disc not contacting the anterior margin of mesoscutum; axilla reddish brown; metanotum with lateral portions reddishbrown with inner portion slightly yellow; mesepisternum and metepisternum reddish-brown; omaular area yellow; propodeum yellow with faint reddish-brown spots on lateral portions. Wing membrane mostly hyaline, slightly yellow infumated; wing veins yellow; microtrichia hyaline yellow. Fore legs yellow; middle and hind legs yellowish brown; hind tibial spurs pale yellow; terga with disc orange yellow and marginal zone reddish-brown; sterna completely yellow. Pubescence. Mostly golden yellow to pale white; tibia and basitarsus of middle and hind legs with dark brown pubescence; scopa of hind tibia with white plumose hairs on postero-distal portion; T1−T4 without marinal bands, on T5–T6 with complete marginal bands of simple brownish haris. Mesoscutum with dense velvet short plumose hairs, intermingled with short simple setae; scutellum with dense plumose hairs, slightly longer than in mesoscutum, intermingled with erect long simple setae (ca. 0.09–0.2 mm); metapostnotum with very short hairs. Integument sculpture. Similar to male, except for clypeus and supraclypeal area with shallow punctures; paraocular area mostly smooth, with fine sparse punctures; frons with dense coarse punctures (<0.5−2 pd) intermingled with finely minute punctures (1 pd); mesoscutum and scutellum with dense finely minute punctures (<0.5 pd), intermingled with sparse fine punctures (1−3 pd); mesepisternum mostly smooth, with sparse coarse punctures (0.5–3 pd); metapostnotum and propodeum with finely minute punctures (ca. 1 pd). Structure. Head: width, 2.56, length, 2.04; clypeus: length, 0.66, width, 1.00; maximum T2 width: 2.48; lower interocular distance: 1.12; upper interocular distance: 1.47; scape: maximum width, 0.19, length, 0.60; length of F1−F3: 0.23, 0.09, 0.17; F2 diameter: 0.19; fore wing length, including tegulae: 6.44.

Variation. The marginal band of plumose hairs on T4 of males can vary between almost complete as in the holotype and the specimen from Ibiá, Minas Gerais (DZUP\ 023620), or occupying less than third of margin laterally as the specimens from Cáceres (DZUP\ 162056) and Ibiá (DZUP\ 023594). The frons could vary between completely dark brown, with small yellow spots, with faint yellow spots, or with large yellow spots. One specimen female from Bocaiúva (Minas Gerais) presents a color pattern of integument very different of the remainder specimens but it is structurally identical. This specimen presents the labrum, clypeus and frons completely black; yellow stripe on paraocular area conspicuous; mesoscutum dark brown with short thin yellow stripes; mesepisternum and propodeum completely black, scutellum and metanotum light orange brown, metasoma orange yellow.

Etymology. The species name refers to the Cerrado savanna of South America.

Type material. Holotype male, “ DZUP \ 162055” “Cáceres, MT\ 7-II-1985 \ C. Elias leg.\ POLONOROESTE”. Paratypes: BRAZIL: Mato Grosso, 1 male, “ DZUP \ 162056” “Caceres, MT\ 9-11-XII- 1984 \ C. Elias leg." "POLONOROESTE”; Minas Gerais, 1 female, “ DZUP \ 023605” “CAMPOS ALTOS- MG\ BRASIL-28/8/965\ C. Elias leg”; 1 female, “ DZUP \ 023585” “ IBIÁ – BRASIL \ MG- 10/12/1965 \ C. Elias leg.”, 1 male and 3 females ( DZUP), idem except “023620”, “023609”, “023589”, “023618”; 1 female, “ DZUP \ 023611” "84/233" "Paraopeba, MG, Brasil \ Data 04/11/1986 \ F.A. Silveira" " Lophopedia \ sp.3", 1 female ( MEUV), “521/1404” “Paraopeba, MG, Brasil \ Data 11/10/1987 ” “ Lophopedia \ F sp.3”; 1 female, “ DZUP \ 023584” "PASSOS MG\ Br 20-25 XI 61 \ C. Elias leg.", 2 females ( DZUP), idem except “023597”, “023613”; 1 female, “ DZUP \ 023586” “PASSOS-MG\ Brasil 13-18 XI-61 \ Cladionor Elias”; 1 female, “ DZUP \ 162022” “ BRASIL, Minas\ Gerais, Serra do\ Salitre, outubro/2005\ AJCAguiar”; 1 female, “ DZUP \ 023593” “TAPIRA-M.Gerais\ BRASIL- 30/XI/65 \ C. Elias leg”; 1 female ( UFMG), “Abelhas-Cerrado\ Mannesmann\ Fazenda Corredor\ 2672-7988” “Bocaiúva MG\ BRASIL 05/11/1998 \ A.A. Azevedo” “ Paratetrapedia F\ ( Amphipedia )\ sp.22\ F.A. Silveira, det. 2000”; 1 female ( UFMG), “Abelhas-Cerrado\ Mannesmann\ Fazenda Corredor\ 5796-15828” “Felixlândia MG\ BRASIL 17/11/1999 \ A.A. Azevedo” “ Paratetrapedia \ ( Amphipedia )\ sp.22\ F.A. Silveira, det. 2000”, 1 female ( UFMG), idem except “ 20/07/ 1999 \ A. Nemésio”; 1 male ( UFMG), “Abelhas-Cerrado\ Mannesmann\ Fazenda Itapoli\ 2636-7842” “Paraopeba MG\ BRASIL 23/09/1998 \ V. Silva” “ Paratetrapedia M\ ( Amphipedia )\ sp.18\ F.A. Silveira, det. 2000”; São Paulo, 1 female (SM), “Cerrado-Est.Ecol.Jataí-SP,\ BR 0 3 XI 1992, no.2354\ h:14-16 Mateus, S. leg.”; 1 female ( RPSP), “ Brasil SP Luiz Antônio E.E. Jataí\ 21o33’S 47o42’W 30.VII.1999 \ M.C.Gaglianone leg. 10:30h,\ Banisteriopsis pubipetala ”.

Figures

FIGURES 11 − 16. Fore wing of species of Lophopedia. Fig. 11: Lophopedia pygmaea. Fig. 12: L. apicalis. Fig. 13: L. savanicola sp. nov. Fig. 14: L. nigriceps. Fig. 15: L. nigrispinis. Fig. 16: L. minor sp. nov.

FIGURES 21 − 22. Distribution records for species of Lophopedia. Fig. 21: L. pygmaea; Fig. 22: L. fulviventris sp. nov (Δ), L. nigrispinis (Ο), L. pulchra sp. nov. (․), L. savanicola sp. nov (●).

FIGURES 90 − 92. Lophopedia savanicola sp. nov.; holotype male. Fig. 90: head, frontal view. Fig. 91, lateral view. Fig. 92: dorsal view.

FIGURES 93 − 97. Lophopedia savanicola sp. nov.; male genitalia. Figs. 93 − 95: S 6 − S 8; Figs. 96 − 97: genital capsule, ventral and dorsal views.