Augochloropsis (Glyptochlora) peruviana Celis & Melo 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Celis, Cindy Julieth
name: Melo, Gabriel A. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Augochloropsis
Augochloropsis peruviana

description: Augochloropsis (Glyptochlora) peruviana sp. nov.
(Figs. 1E; 2B, E, H; 3A, C; 4D)
Diagnosis. This species is similar to A. ticuna sp. nov. by the coppery body coloration and red lower parocular area. It can be separated from the remaining A. (Glyptochlora), including A. ticuna sp. nov. by the propodeal lateral expansion with regular margin, straight in the most basal region; hind basitarsus with thick dark bristles on the external margin; mesepisternum with inconspicuous dark setae; dorsal surface of T1–T3 with dull integument, micropunctate in between; pronotum with lateral ridge strongly projected forward forming an acute tip, almost touching the occipital area of the head in lateral view; T1 with dorso-lateral line strongly elevated.
Comments. Found in western Amazonia, in the foothills of the Andes in San Martin (Peru).
Description. Holotype ♀. Measurements (based on three specimens). Head width: 2.87–3.00 (x̅ =2.95); head length: 1.72–1.85 (x̅ =1.80); clypeus width: 1.55–1.65 (x̅ =1.61); clypeus length: 0.83–0.86 (x̅ =0.84); eye notch width: 0.59–0.69 (x̅ =0.65); supraclypeal length: 0.43–0.50 (x̅ =0.47); alveolo-ocellar distance: 0.66–0.69 (x̅ =0.67); intertegular distance: 2.08–2.31 (x̅ =2.21); T1 maximum width: 3.3–3.56 (x̅ =3.43); T2 maximum width: 3.37–3.60 (x̅ =3.48); body length: 9.72 (x̅ =9.72).
Color. Mandible brown. Lower parocular area red. Frons green, differing from the remainder coppery head in forntal view. Supraclypeal area red, apical third black. Clypeus mostly black, red on lateral surfaces. Genal area coppery. Scape and flagellum brown. Mesoscutum and metanotum mostly green with coppery reflections. Scutellum coppery. Tegula brown. Meso- and metepisternum mostly green with coppery reflections. Propodeum green; metapostnotum differing from the propodeum, coppery. Fore wing with hyaline brown membrane; apical margin darker; pterostigma and venation brown. Hind wing with hyaline membrane; apical margin iridescent. Legs brown; tarsi brown; tibia with weak green reflections on external surface; hind tibial spur amber. T1–T3 dull black, laterally green. T4 green. Marginal zone green in T1–T4. Exposed dorsal surface of T5 and pseudopygidial area black. S1–S4 mostly brown, distally green. S5 and S6 brown. Pubescence. Body mostly covered by pale yellowish pubescence. Mandible, dorsal margin with yellow bristles. Clypeus, apical margin with row of very long (2–3 OD) yellow bristles, surface covered by shorter yellow setae, intermixed with dark setae. Supraclypeal area with dense, long, yellow setae, intermixed with dark setae; apical third with shorter scattered setae. Lower parocular area with short (1.5 OD) yellow setae, intermixed with dark setae. Frons with minute dark setae. Vertex with short (1.5 OD) dark setae, very conspicuous in occipital area. Postgena with very long (2.5–3 OD), scarce, yellow setae. Scape with very short (≤1 OD) yellow and dark setae in the basal region, shorter and darker bristles towards the distal region. Flagellomeres F1–F10 setose, with white sensilla. Pronotal lobe with dark setae. Mesoscutum with very short (=1 OD), scarce, dark bristles. Scutellum covered by erect, long (1.5–2 OD), dark setae; intermixed with more erect, longer (3–3.5 OD) dark bristles. Metanotum covered by yellow tomentose setae, intermixed with erect, long (1.5–2.5 OD), dark setae. Mesepisternum with inconspicuous dark setae. Propodeum lateral surface covered by yellow tomentose setae, intermixed with longer (1.5–2 OD), yellow setae; posterior vertical surface with long (≥1 OD), erect, yellow setae; metapostnotum glabrous. Fore wing with sparse and black microtrichia. Fore and mid leg: coxa, trochanter and femur with very long (2–3.5 OD) yellow setae, shorter setae (2.5 OD) on mid leg, internal margin glabrous; mesofemoral brush yellow; dark bristles on the external surface of tibia and tarsus, denser yellow bristles on inner surface. Hind leg: coxa and trochanter with short yellow setae; femur and tibia with long, plumose, yellow setae, forming a scopa; external margin of tibia and basitarsus with erect, very long (2–3 OD) dark bristles; denser yellow bristles on inner surface. T1, anterior margins with long (1.5–2 OD) yellow setae; laterally glabrous; dorsal surface with scattered, minute, white bristles. T2–T4 dorsal surface covered by scattered, minute, white bristles; laterally with a tuft of white setae. Marginal zone glabrous in T1–T4. Exposed surface of T5 and pseudopygidial area covered by dense dark bristles. S1 with long white setae medially. S2–S6 with long, dense, yellow setae, recurved apically. Sculpture. Clypeus punctate, with open shallow very coarse punctures on basal and laterals margins, sparser medially; integument smooth in between; foveate distally. Supraclypeal area with contiguous very coarse punctures; sparse coarse punctures in the apical third, integument smooth in between. Frons with contiguous very coarse punctures. Mesoscutum, scutellum and metanotum foveate. Propodeum with smooth integument on lateral angle; area adjacent to metapostnotum reticulate and with 1–3 scattered coarse punctures; posterior vertical surface with contiguously very coarse punctures. Metasoma with inconspicuous punctures; dorsal surface of T1–T3 with sparse fine punctures, integument micropunctate in between; close very coarse punctures on lateral surfaces in T1; gradulus slightly excavated on T2. Exposed dorsal surface of T4 with sparse fine punctures; integument smooth in between. Marginal zone with close fine punctures in T1–T4, smooth stripe in the distal margin on T2–T4. S2–S5 with contiguous coarse punctures and substrigulate surfaces. Structure. Apex of clypeus strongly prolonged over apical border. Hypostomal ridge carinate, not projected onto a sheet anteriorly. Pronotum with dorsal ridge lamellate (<1 TW) and straight; dorso-lateral angle slightly notched, produced as an inconspicuous acute corner; lateral ridge strongly projected forward forming an acute tip; pronotal lobe strongly expanded. Propodeum with lateral expansions semicircular, with the most basal margin straight and discontinuous with the margin of the distal region. Hind tibial spur pectinate, 7 and 8 teeth in the right and left spur, respectively; broadened at base. T1 with dorso-lateral line excavated and strongly elevated. Pygidial plate long, apex weakly emarginated medially.
Etymology. The name is a reference to the country where it is known to occur.
Distribution. The species is found in the Peruvian region of San Martin (Fig. 9).
Type material. Holotype female, (MUSM), ‘ PERU, SM, San Martin \ San Antonio de Cumbaza \ S06 24,522´W76 24,409 \ April 2003 – 415 masl \ Claus Rasmussen leg’. Paratype: one female (CRBC), ‘ PERU, SM, Tarapoto- \ Yurimaguas, Km 20 \ “BIODIVERSIDADE’ \ 0634/7620 950 masl \ IV-VI.2002 C. Rasmussen’; one female (DZUP), with the same data.
description: Published as part of Celis, Cindy Julieth & Melo, Gabriel A. R., 2022, Taxonomic revision of Augochloropsis (Glyptochlora) Moure, a rare bee subgenus from the Amazon Basin (Hymenoptera: Halictinae), pp. 21-40 in Zootaxa 5182 (1) on pages 30-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7042752