Lophopedia nigrispinis ( Vachal 1909 )

Aguiar, Antonio J. C., 2009, Taxonomic revision of the bee genus Lophopedia Michener and Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini), Zootaxa 2193, pp. 1-52 : 28-29

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.189415

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6215285

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scientific name

Lophopedia nigrispinis ( Vachal 1909 )
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Lophopedia nigrispinis ( Vachal 1909) View in CoL

( Figs. 15 View FIGURES 11 − 16 , 22 View FIGURES 21 − 22 , 59−65 View FIGURES 59 − 61 View FIGURES 62 − 66 )

Tetrapedia nigrispinis Vachal 1909: 30 View in CoL ; lectotype female examined (MNHP), ARGENTINA: Tucumán; designated by Aguiar (2007): 617.

Tetrapedia morricola Strand 1910: 518 View in CoL ; holotype male, examined (ZMB), PARAGUAY: Central, Villa Morra; new synonymy.

Tetrapedia nigrispinis View in CoL ; Moure (1944b): 74.

Tapinotaspis (Tapinorhina) nigrispinis ; Michener and Moure (1957): 421; Roig-Alsina (1999): 84 (misidentification of Chalepogenus coccuci ).

Tapinotaspis (Tapinorhina) nigrispinis (1908) [sic]; Pedro (1994): 246; Pedro (1996): 251 (misidentification of Chalepogenus View in CoL sp.).

Lophopedia morricola View in CoL ; Aguiar (2007): 617.

Lophopedia nigrispinis ; Aguiar (2007): 617.

Comments and diagnosis. Lophopedia nigrispinis is distinctive mainly due to the integument mostly black, wing membrane dark brown infumated, mesepisternum with dense punctures on omaular area, lamella of pronotal collar with lateral portions low on female (as L. fulviventrris sp.nov.; Fig. 77 View FIGURES 74 − 78 ), T5–T6 with marginal band of plumose hairs complete on males. It can be distinguished from L. fulviventris sp.nov. by the scrobal line on mesepisternun not depply sulcate, and can be distinguished from L. pygmaea by the omaulus convex, not carinate.

Distribution: ARGENTINA: Salta, Tucumán; BRAZIL: Bahia, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo, Santa Catarina; PARAGUAY ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 21 − 22 ).

Variation. The terga and sterna can vary in color. Most of the specimens present the integument mostly black, but few specimens of the northern portions ( Bahia, Vitória da Conquista) present the metasoma pale brown and wings pale brown infumated. Some specimens present one of the lateral portions of pronotal lamella lower than the other. The yellow marks on male head can be completely absent. Most of the male specimens examined present the mandible yellow with apices black, labrum completely yellow, clypeus mostly yellow, yellow stripe on paraocular area extending above the height of antennal fovea, lower margin of clypeus with a small yellow mark on the mid portion, lower third of genal area with a thin yellow stripe. The pubescence of hind leg can be completely black or pale yellow. The females can present labrum completely black or yellow, or black with lateral margins yellow. T5–T6 of male with marginal bands of plumose hairs complete, and T4 mostly glabrous with only a very short marginal hair band laterally; except for one male specimen of Paraná (DZUP/ 161916) that has a complete marginal band on T4.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Lophopedia

Loc

Lophopedia nigrispinis ( Vachal 1909 )

Aguiar, Antonio J. C. 2009
2009
Loc

Tapinotaspis (Tapinorhina) nigrispinis (1908)

Pedro 1996: 251
Pedro 1994: 246
1994
Loc

Tapinotaspis (Tapinorhina) nigrispinis

Roig-Alsina 1999: 84
Michener 1957: 421
1957
Loc

Tetrapedia nigrispinis

Moure 1944: 74
1944
Loc

Tetrapedia morricola

Strand 1910: 518
1910
Loc

Tetrapedia nigrispinis

Vachal 1909: 30
1909
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