Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) nigriceps Friese 1899
Creators: name: Aguiar, Antonio J. C.
name: Melo, Gabriel A. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Paratetrapedia
Paratetrapedia nigriceps

description: Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) nigriceps (Friese, 1899)
Tetrapedia testacea var. nigriceps Friese, 1899: 298. Lectotype male, here designated, Bolivia (ZMB).
Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) nigriceps; Michener and Moure (1957): 415.
Comments
Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) nigriceps is structurally identical to P. (Lophopedia) haeckeli, differing only by the color of integument and pubescence. Pararetrapedia nigriceps possesses the integument and pubescence mostly orange yellow, except for a black frons in many specimens. The distribution and length of pubescence, sculpture, structure and morphology of male sterna 6–8 and genitalia are quite similar in P. nigriceps and P. haeckeli. Perhaps, these two forms could be treated as a single species. However, their distributions do not overlap: P. haeckeli occurs in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, while P. nigriceps is found only in Bolivia. The subgenus Lophopedia contains four additional species with a predominantly yellow integument, two already described and two undescribed (Aguiar, unpublished).
Type material
In the ZMB collection, there is only one specimen identified by Friese as Tetrapedia testacea var. nigriceps. This male specimen, bearing the following labels “ Bolivia \ 97” “M” “ Tetrapedia \ testacea \ v. nigriceps \ det. Friese 1898\ n. var.” “ Type ” [printed red label] “Zool. Mus.\ Berlin”, is here designated lectotype in order to stabilize the taxonomy of the group. Paralectotype: in the MZSP, there is one female specimen, identified by Friese, bearing the labels “954” “ Tetrapedia \ testacea \ v. nigriceps \ 1900 Friese det\ Fr.” “96929”, information associated with number 954 on the MZSP’s Record Book: “954, Tetrapedia testacea var. nigriceps Fr., data 1897, Bolivia ”.
Additional examined material
Additional material, all from BOLIVIA: 1 female (AMNH), “BOLIVIA­GUANAY\ Uyapi­X.95\ Gerlach”; 1 female (AMNH), “ BOLIVIA, La Paz:\ Guanay\ 10­XI­1992 \ Luis Peña” “ Paratetrapedia \ (Lophopedia?) sp F\ Det. A.H. Smith­Pardo”; 2 males and 3 females (AMNH), “Bolivia­Beni\ Guanay­Uyapi”; 1 male and 2 females (AMNH), “Bolivia­Beni\ Guanay­Uyapi\ Arriagada X­96 ”; 2 males and 4 females (AMNH), “ BOLIVIA: Yungas\ de La Paz. Rio Choro\ La Paz Dept.\ 1000 m. X.30.1968”; 9 females (DZUP), “DZUP\ 23556” “NIGRILLANI­ 2500m.\ Enero 1950 \ G. Williner leg.\ N.
Yungas­Bolivia”, five specimens with same data except numbers 23562 to 23564, and 23560, other specimen with same data except the number 23565 and label “ Lophopedia \ nigriceps F\ (Friese)\ Pe. J. S. Moure 1988”, other specimen with same data except the number 23549 and the label “ Paratetrapedia \ nigriceps \ (Friese)\ P. Moure 1952”, other specimen with same data except the number 23561 and the label “ Lophopedia \ nigriceps \ (Fr.)\ Det. J. S. Moure 1957 ”; 3 males and 6 females (DZUP), “DZUP\ 23599” “R. ESPEJO IBANES\ S.C. BOLIVIA II­62 \ F.H. Walz, leg”, other eight specimens with same data except numbers 23588, 23592, 23595, 23598, 23601 to 23603, 23606; 2 females (DZUP), “Coleção\ Campos Seabra” “DZUP\ 23619” “Nigrillani\ NOR­YUNGAS\ I­ 1950 \ Pe. G. Williner”, other specimen with same data except the number 23614; 2 males and 1 female (SEMK), “Cristal Maya.\ Chapare, Cochab­\ amba Bol. 200m. \ XII­5­49 LE Pena”; 2 females (DZUP), “DZUP\ 23607” “Chulumani­\ 1.400m. Bolivia \ 27/X/1989 \ Mielke e\ Casagrande leg.”, other specimen with same data except the number 23568; 2 females (SEMK), “Chulumani\ Bolivia \ I­1949 \ F. H. Walz”; 2 females (SEMK), “Pdo. La Paz\ Bolivia \ 1700m, XII­49 \ A. Martinez”; 7 females (AMNH), “ BOLIVIA: La\ Paz. La Paz Dept. 3800­\ 4000m. X­27.1968”.
description: Published as part of Aguiar, Antonio J. C. & Melo, Gabriel A. R., 2005, Notes on the type species of the subgenera Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) and P. (Amphipedia) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini), pp. 31-42 in Zootaxa 1084 on pages 37-38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170446