Paratetrapedia andina Aguiar & Melo 2011, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Aguiar, Antonio J. C.
name: Melo, Gabriel A. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Paratetrapedia
Paratetrapedia andina

description: PARATETRAPEDIA ANDINA SP. NOV.  (FIGS 76, 108, 144, 207, 208)  
 Comments and diagnosis: Paratetrapedia andina is very similar to P. atlantica, both having brown plumose hairs on the posterolateral margins of scutellum and very faint yellow stripes on mesoscutum. It differs from this species by male T5 with marginal band occupying about one-quarter of margin laterally. Paratetrapedia andina is known only from three male specimens.   
 Distribution: Bolivia; Ecuador (Fig. 76).   
 Description   
 Holotype male: Body length: 8.0; maximum head width: 2.5; fore wing length (including tegula): 8.1. Colour. Integument mostly dark brown; mandible pale yellow with apex black; labrum pale yellow; clypeus with two pale yellow spots on margins laterally, contacted by a thin yellow stripe on lower margin of clypeus; supraclypeal area with yellow spot on disc; lower paraocular area with wide yellow stripe; disc of frons with thin and short yellow stripe; scape, pedicel, and flagellomeres reddish brown. Mesoscutum with two thin faint yellow stripes on disc and lateral margins. Fore wing membrane brown infumate with dark brown microtrichia; veins and pterostigma yellow; marginal cell with membrane slightly yellow infumate. Tibial spurs whitish. Pubescence. Paraocular area, genal area, mesepisternum, propodeum, and sterna with pubescence mostly pale white; remaining body pubescence brown. Scape with long white hairs on inner surface, about 0.2 mm in length. Mesoscutum and scutellum with dense plumose pale brown pubescence; posterolateral portions of scutellum with plumose brown hairs; metapostnotum with short plumose hairs, about 0.08 mm in length. T4–T5 with marginal hairs band occupying less than one-quarter of margin laterally; margins of T6 completely glabrous. S2 with two small rows of simple erect setae on mid portion of margin; S3 deeply concave in ‘U’ shape, covered by dense short plumose pubescence; S4 and S5 typical of genus; S6 with two rows of stout plumose hairs on margins laterally, and short plumose hairs on margin of apex. Integument sculpture. Clypeus with shallow coarse punctures (1 pd), intermingled amongst sparse minute punctures (> 2 pd); supraclypeal area with coarse punctures, denser on lateral portions (< 1 pd) and sparser on disc (2 pd); disc of frons with coarse punctures (1–2 pd); antennal scrobe with dense fine punctures (< 1 pd). Mesoscutum and scutellum with dense minute punctures (< 1 pd), intermingled amongst sparse coarser punctures (2 pd); metapostnotum with fine dense punctures (0.5 pd), and dense minute on lateral margins (< 0.5 pd); transition zone of metapostnotum and propodeum with smooth area; mesepisternum with coarse punctures, mostly sparse (> 2 pd). Structure. Lamella of pronotal collar with lateral portions obtuse. Scutellum conspicuously convex. Head about 1.2¥ broader than long (2.5: 2.1); ratio of lower interocular distance to upper interocular distance: 0.82 (1.17: 1.42); clypeus about 1.7¥ broader than long (1.12: 0.65); scape: length 0.65, maximum width 0.18; length of F1–F3: 0.2, 0.15, 0.22; diameter of F2: 0.17.   
 Variation: The specimen from Ecuador has the yellow marks on face very reduced, mandible, labrum, and genal area mostly dark brown, clypeus with only two small yellow spots on lateral margins.   
 Etymology: The species name refers to the Andean cordillera.   
 Type material: Holotype male, ‘ DZUP \ 022839’ ‘Nigrillani- 2500 m \ Enero 1950 \ G. Williner leg.\ N. Yungas-Bolívia’; paratypes: BOLIVIA: 1 male, ‘ DZUP \ 022916’ ‘ Puerto Villa 1200 m \ Yungas Bolívia \ 13-20/XII/55 Peña’; 1 male (ZSMC), ‘ BOLIVIA \ Yungas, Coroico \ 1900 m \ 19.5.975\ leg. W. Forster \ Zoolog.\ Staatssig’; ECUADOR: 1 male (SEMC), ‘ ECUADOR: Sucumbios \ Sacha Lodge, 0.5°S \ 76.5°W, 270 m, 12-22-III\ 1994, Hibbs, ex: malaise’.
description: Published as part of Aguiar, Antonio J. C. & Melo, Gabriel A. R., 2011, Revision and phylogeny of the bee genus Paratetrapedia Moure, with description of a new genus from the Andean Cordillera (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini), pp. 351-442 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162 (2) on page 423, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00678.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440315