Nomia (Gnathonomia) wahisi
Creators: name: Zhang, Dan
name: Niu, Ze-Qing
name: Orr, Michael C.
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Zhu, Chao-Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Nomia
Nomia wahisi

description: Nomia (Gnathonomia) wahisi (Pauly, 2009)
(Figs 5–6)
Gnathonomia wahisi Pauly 2009: 157, ♂. Holotype: ♂, Laos, Province Champasak, Parc National Xe-Pian, Ban Dong, 250~ 300m, 25~ 31.V.2001 leg. R. Wahis, FSAG.
Diagnosis. Male of this species can be distinguished from other species of subgenus Gnathonomia by the following: Hind femur strongly developed, swollen; hind tibia with tooth-like projection subapically and rectangular swollen projection apically (Fig. 5f); scutellum shiny, with sparse large punctures (Fig. 5d); apical margin of T2–5 covered by yellowish bands (Fig. 5e).
Redescription. Male. BL= 7–9mm (Fig. 5b, 5c), body blackish-brown. Head. HL: HW=0.78, head broader than long (Fig. 5a); GW: EW=0.81, eye much broader than gena; interocellar distance equal to ocellocular distance (Fig. 5a); mandible blackish-brown, with one tooth on upper margin medially (Fig. 5a); frons and vertex with dense punctures; frons with smooth frontal line medially (Fig. 5a); vertex with rounded posterior margin (Fig. 5c); antenna reaching apical margin of tegula (Fig. 5b); scape nearly equal to F1–3 together in length (Fig. 5a); F1 slightly enlarged and nearly as long as broad (Fig. 5a), nearly 0.5 times as long as F2 (Fig. 5a); F2–10 almost equal in length, nearly twice as long as broad; F11 rounded apically, about twice as long as broad; ocelli normal, not enlarged. Mesosoma. Mesoscutum dull, minutely and deeply punctuate; scutellum shiny, broader than long, with sparse large punctures, punctures in median sparser than that on posterior margin upper lateral surface of propodeum with sparse punctures; metapostnotum with narrow longitudinal wrinkles; inclined part of metapostnotum narrowly triangular and dull (Fig. 5c, 5d); fore wing with three submarginal cells, 1 st submarginal cell almost equal to 3 rd submarginal cell in length, about twice as long as 2 nd submarginal cell (Fig. 5d); tegula normal, not enlarged (Fig. 5c); legs reddish-brown (Fig. 5b, 5f, 5e); hind femur strongly developed, swollen (Fig. 5b, 5f); inner surface of hind tibia with tooth-like projection subapically and rectangle swollen process apically (Fig. 5f). Metasoma. Metasomal terga dull, with dense minute punctures; apical margin of T1 without conspicuous white band (Fig. 5e); apical margin of T2–5 with yellowish bands, punctures on T1–2 larger and denser than on T3–4 (Fig. 3d, 3e); S5 rounded apically, apical margin with two hair brushes medially (Fig. 6a); S6 deeply thickened apically (Fig. 6b); S7 as showing in Fig. 6e; S 8 as showing in Fig. 6f; upper margin of gonostylus rounded, as showing in Fig. 6a (in ventral view) and Fig. 6b (in lateral view). Pubescence. Clypeus, supraclypeal area and frons with fine dense yellowish hairs (Fig. 5a); mesoscutum, scutellum and metanotum with sparse short hairs (Fig. 5c); upper lateral surface of propodeum with sparse long yellowish hairs (Fig. 5d); legs with sparse hairs (Fig. 5b, 5d, 5f); metasomal terga with sparse yellowish hairs (Fig. 5c, 5 d–e).
Female. Not examined in this study.
Material examined. China: Hainan: 1 ♂, Jianfengling (18°42′07″N, 108°51′55″E), 873m 7.V.2007, leg. Ding Liang. Thailand: Mae Hong Son: 1 ♂, Soppong env (19°30′52″N, 98°14′52″E), 637 m, 28.V~ 2.VI.1999, leg. M. Riha, MSAA; Nakhon Si Thammarat: 1 ♂, Khao Luang NP., Krung Ching waterfall (8°27′17″N, 99°42′11″E), 845m, 13~ 22.V.1998, leg. P. Průdek, R. Šigut, MSAA.
Distribution. China (Hainan); Laos (Champasak; Pauly 2009); Thailand (Mae Hong Son, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Tak, Udon Thani).
Floral association. Unknown.
Remarks. N. wahisi is recorded from China for the first time here.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Dan, Niu, Ze-Qing, Orr, Michael C., Ascher, John S. & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2020, Chinese species of Nomia (Gnathonomia) Pauly, 2005 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea Halictidae: Nomiinae), pp. 76-94 in Zootaxa 4768 (1) on pages 83-84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4768.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3777860