Thrinchostoma (Thrinchostoma) sladeni Cockerell, 1913 New
Creators: name: Zeqing Niu
name: Feng Yuan
name: Pia Oremek
name: Feng Liu
name: Chaodong Zhu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Thrinchostoma
Thrinchostoma sladeni

description: Thrinchostoma (T.) sladeni Cockerell, 1913 New record to China (Figs 1–16)
Thrinchostoma sladeni Cockerell, 1913: 35, ♂ (non. ♀). Type locality: India, Assam, Khasia Hills.
Halictus wroughtoni Bingham, 1897 (nec Cameron, 1897): 432, ♂, ♀, not examined.
Halictus (Rostratilapis) sladeni Friese 1914: 27, ♂ (non. ♀).
Thrinchostoma sladeni Cockerell: Sladen, 1915: 213, ♂; Blüthgen, 1926: 377, ♂, ♀.
Thrinchostoma (T.) sladeni Cockerell: Michener, 1978: 524 (list); Michener & Engel, 2010: 133 (list), 131, ♀ (key), 133, ♂ (key); Saini & Rathor, 2012: 164 (list).
Diagnosis. All specimens collected from China bear the following characters: the male malar area nearly as long as the width of mandible base (Fig. 3), metafemur, metatibia strongly swollen, and metatrochanter ventrally with angular projection (Fig. 6), basal margin of S5 with two transverse rows of spines numbered in 3 respectively at both sides (Fig. 5); the female malar area about one-third as long as the width of mandible base (Fig. 13), second marginal crossvein angulated medially (Fig. 14), metasomal terga with short, simple, laterally-directed hairs on posterior marginal zones, T2 with broad orange apical margin (Fig. 15). All these characters diagnosed our specimens as T. (T.) sladeni Cockerell, 1913.
Materials examined. China, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, NWNR: Naban (100º40′E, 22º09′N), 1♀ 1♂, 12.V.2008, 1♀, 729 m, 6.IV.2009, 2♀, 709 m, 26.IV.2009, 1♀, 732 m, 26.V.2009, coll. Lingzeng Meng; 2♀, 729 m, 2♀, 732 m, 23.V.2008, 2♀, 729 m, 6.VI.2008, 1♀ 1♂, 709 m, 15.VI.2008, 1♀, 729 m, 28.VI.2008, 3♀, 732 m, 18.VII.2008, coll. A. Weigel; Mandian (100º40′E, 22º07′N), 1♀, 753 m, 6.VI.2008, 1♀, 753 m, 15.VI.2008, 2♀, 28.VI.2008, 2♀, 753m, 8.VII.2008, coll. A. Weigel; 2♀, 753 m, 16.III.2009, 2♀, 753 m, 6.IV.2009, 1♀, 746 m, 16.IV.2009, 2♀, 746 m, 6.V.2009, 4♀, 753 m, 16.V.2009, 4♀, 753 m, 6.VI.2009, 2♀, 2♂, 26.VI.2009, coll. Lingzeng Meng; Anma Xinzai (100º39′E, 22º12′N), 4♀, 772 m, 6.IV.2009, 1♀, 772 m, 26.V.2009, coll. Lingzeng Meng; 1♀, 13.VI.2013, coll. Pia Oremek; Danuoyou (100º38′E, 22º12′N), 1♀, 770 m, 26.V.2009, coll. Lingzeng Meng; 1♀, 1.V.2013, 1♀, 10.VII.2013, coll. Pia Oremek; Jinhong Mekong Hill Garden (100º47′E, 22º01′N), 1♀, 30.XII.2007, coll. A. Weigel; Banggang Xinzai (100º15′E, 22º09′N), 1♀, 12.V.2008, coll. Lingzeng Meng; Manfei (100º40′E, 22º08′N), 1♀, 14.V.2013, 1♀, 29.VI.2013, coll. Pia Oremek; Xiaomangmu (100º28′E, 22º00′N), 1♂, 29.V.1987, (Alpinia sp.), coll. Tao Zhu; Juzidi (100º37′E, 22º13′N), 1♀, 30.IV.2013, 1♂, 11.VI.2013, 1♀, 25.VI.2013, coll. Pia Oremek; China, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Mile Xian, Bubang (103º14′E, 24º07′N), 1♂, 700 m, 16.IX.1993, coll. Huanli Xu.
Distribution. China (Yunnan), India (Assam, Khasia Hills; Cockerell, 1913).
Floral association. Alpinia sp. (Zingberaceae).
Remark. This species was previously only recorded from India in literature. It is a newly recorded species for China.
description: Published as part of Zeqing Niu, Feng Yuan, Pia Oremek, Feng Liu & Chaodong Zhu, 2016, Thrinchostoma Saussure, little known bee genus from China, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), pp. 207-215 in Zoological Systematics 41 (2) on pages 210-212, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201619, http://zenodo.org/record/399740