Chilicola
Creators: name: Packer, Laurence
name: Dumesh, Sheila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Chilicola

description: Key to the Females of Chilicola (O roediscelis) (Females of C. ashei, C. fritzi, C. boharti and C. pustulata unknown)
1 Head approximately 1.5X as long as wide (Fig. 129) malar space clearly longer than wide (Fig. 131)........................................................................................ C. calchaqui Packer and Dumesh n. sp. Head at most 1.35X as long as wide (Fig. 130); malar space at most subequal in length to its width (Fig. 132)........... 2 2(1) Malar space at least as long as wide (Fig. 133).............................................................. 3 Malar space at most ¾ as long as wide (Fig. 134)........................................................... 5 3(2) Mesoscutum with dense, long pubescence, longest hairs ~2.5 MOD (Fig. 135)................. C. espeleticola Michener Mesoscutum with sparse, short pubescence, longest hairs <1 MOD (Fig. 136)...................................... 4
4(3) Frontal and upper paraocular areas deeply and coarsely punctate (Fig. 137); metapostnotum with sparse striae not reaching posterior edge (Fig. 139)............................................................. C. bigibbosa Michener Frontal and upper paraocular areas shallowly punctate (Fig. 138); metapostnotum with dense striae throughout, most reaching posterior edge (Fig. 140).................................................... C. roigi Packer and Dumesh n. sp.
5(2) Mesoscutum with dense, long pubescence, longest hairs ~2.5 MOD (Fig. 141).................. C. deborahae Gonzalez Mesoscutum with sparse, scattered pubescence, longest hairs ~1 MOD (Fig. 142).................................. 6
6(5) Lower paraocular area with distinct yellow-orange mark laterad of anterior tentoral pit (Fig. 143)............................................................................................. C. jaguense Packer and Dumesh n. sp. Lower paraocular area without distinct yellow mark (rarely with faint orange marking) (Fig. 144)..................... 7
7(6) Malar space 3/4 as long as wide (Fig. 145)................................................................. 8 Malar space at most 2/3 as long as wide (Fig. 146)......................................................... 10 8(7) Head 1.2X as long as wide; larger bees, head width 1.7 mm (Fig. 147).............. C. goloboffi Packer and Dumesh n. sp. Head at least 1.25X as long as wide; smaller bees, head width <1.5 mm (Fig. 148)................................. 9
9(8) Metapostnotal striae uniform, fine but dense (Fig. 149); apical impressed area of T1–T2 punctate medially (Fig. 151)............................................................................. C. capillitas Packer and Dumesh n. sp. Metapostnotal striae not uniform, somewhat coarse and sparse (Fig. 150); apical impressed area of T1–T2 impunctate medially (Fig. 152)............................................................ C. carpenteri Packer and Dumesh n. sp.
10(7) Malar space approximately 2/3 as long as wide (Fig. 153).................................................... 11 Malar space at most 1/2 as long as wide (Fig. 154)......................................................... 13
11(10) Metasomal terga triply punctate, with largest punctures shallow and crater-like, most evident laterally on T2–T4 among smaller punctures that are of two distinct sizes; T1 sparsely punctate (Fig. 155)........... C. luna Dumesh & Packer n. sp. Metasomal terga doubly punctate, or with punctures of only one size; T1 densely punctate (Fig. 156)................. 12
12(11) Metapostnotal striae short, not reaching posterior margin (Fig. 157); T1 surface shiny to weakly imbricate, punctures distinct (Fig. 159)............................................................... C. huarpe Packer and Dumesh n. sp. Metapostnotal striae long, at least some reaching posterior margin (Fig. 158); T1 strongly imbricate, dull, punctures sometimes indistinct among surface sculpture (Fig. 160).................................. C. cuyense Dumesh and Packer n. sp.
13(10) Body length about 5 mm; F1 as long as F2 on mesal surface (Fig. 161); frontal area shiny with fine punctures (Fig. 163)......................................................................................... C. simplex Michener Body length greater than 6 mm; F1 longer than F2 on mesal surface (Fig. 162); frontal area dull, coarsely punctate or weakly rugose (Fig. 164).................................................................................... 14 14(13) Mesoscutellum with punctures clearly of two different sizes, small punctures much more abundant than larger ones (Fig. 16 5)................................................................................ C. benoistiana Michener Mesoscutellum with punctures all quite large, rarely with a very few minute ones (Fig. 166)........................ 15
15(14) Mesoscutum anteriorly between notaulices with punctures of similar moderate size, without contrast to punctures on the rest of mesoscutum (Fig. 167)............................................................................... 16 Mesoscutum anteriorly between notaulices with dense minute punctures and scattered large ones, with distinct contrast to punctures on the rest of mesoscutum (Fig. 168)............................................................ 17
16(15) Body longer (~ 7 mm); mesepisternum with short white hairs (Fig. 169)......... C. abrebotellas Packer and Dumesh n. sp. Body shorter (<6 mm); mesepisternum with long white hairs (Fig. 170).............. C. rozeni Packer and Dumesh n. sp.
description: Published as part of Packer, Laurence & Dumesh, Sheila, 2019, Fifteen new species of Chilicola (Oroediscelis) (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Xeromelissinae) with illustrated keys to the males and females of the subgenus, pp. 1-56 in Zootaxa 4559 (1) on pages 41-49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2585011