Sphecodes brunneipes Friese, 1914

Astafurova, Yulia V., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. & Schwarz, Maximilian, 2020, New and little-known species of the genus Sphecodes Latreille (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) from Southeast Asia, ZooKeys 937, pp. 31-88 : 31

Sphecodes brunneipes Friese, 1914 Figures 22-27

Sphecodes brunneipes Friese, 1914: 14, ♀ (holotype: ♀, Indonesia, Java, Buitzotg. Schmiedek. leg., Coll. Friese; ZMHB; examined, Fig. 27 ).

Diagnosis.

Unlike other species with simple mandibles in the female, this species has a preoccipital carina and a weakly curved basal vein in hind wing.

Descriptive notes.

Wings with brownish darkening; hind wing with the angle between basal (M) and cubital (Cu) veins ca. 70°, costal margin with seven hamuli. Lateral and dorsal preoccipital carina present. Female. Total body length 6-7 mm. Head (Fig. 23 ) strongly transverse, ca. 1.25 times as wide as long; vertex weakly elevated with distance from top of head to upper margin of lateral ocellus approximately a lateral ocellar diameter as seen in frontal view; F1 and F2 strongly transverse, 0.5 times as long as wide; F3 0.8 times as long as wide; face with confluent punctures, ocello-ocular area with dense punctures separated by at most a puncture diameter (Fig. 22 ); paraocular and supraclypeal areas with adpressed white pubescence obscuring integument. Gena with dense pubescence. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum (Fig. 25 ) coarsely and densely punctate (25-50 μm), the punctures separated by at most two puncture diameters; mesepisternum reticulate-rugose (Fig. 24 ); propodeal triangle (metapostnotum) coarsely reticulate-rugose, lateral parts of propodeum with fine wrinkles (strigose). Metasomal terga definitely punctate (Fig. 26 ), finely on T1 (ca. 10 μm) and more coarsely on the remaining terga (10-25 μm); marginal zones impunctate; T1 and T2 red, coloration of T3 and T4 variable; pygidial plate dull, widely rounded apically, 1.4 times as wide as metabasitarsus. Male unknown.

Published records.

Friese 1914: 14 (Indonesia); Ascher and Pickering 2019 (Indonesia).

Material examined.

Indonesia: 2 ♀♀, Lombok, near Senggigi, 18.V.2012, M. Mokrousov (ZISP).

Distribution.

Indonesia.

Figures

Figures 22 - 27. Sphecodes brunneipes Friese, female, holotype 22, 23 head, dorsal view (22), frontal view (23) 24, 25 mesosoma, lateral view (24), dorsal view (25) 26 metasoma, dorsal view 27 labels. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.