Xylocopa (Dasyxylocopa) bimaculata Friese 1903
Creators: name: Melo, Gabriel A. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Xylocopa
Xylocopa bimaculata

description: Xylocopa (Dasyxylocopa) bimaculata Friese, 1903   
(Figures 1, 2a, 3a, b)  
 Xylocopa bimaculata Friese, 1903: 202. Holotype female, Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul (ZMB; examined).   
 Comments   
 The name X. bimaculata is used here to encompass only the populations from southern Brazil (additional records also known from northern Argentina and Paraguay; see Hurd 1978, p. 15), with the other available names removed from its synonymy (see X. piligera below). This species is most similar to X. piligera, with the main differences between them indicated in the key above.   
 Type material examined   
The taxon was proposed based on a single female specimen, currently housed in the ZMB collection. The holotype is in perfect condition (Figure 1).  
 Additional material examined   
 Brazil: one male (ZMB), ‘128’ ‘ Brasilien’ ‘? ♂ X. bimaculata\Fr.’. Paraná: one female (DZUP), ‘CURITYBA – PARANÁ \30-XII-37\ Coll. Claretiano’ ‘bimaculata’; one female (DZUP), ‘ Paraná \CURITIBA\20–10-941\J. Leprevost-Leg.’ ‘ Xylocopa ♀ \bimaculata\ Fr.\P. Moure det.\1942’; one male (DZUP), idem except ‘ Xylocopa ♂ \bimaculata\ Fr., 1903\P. Moure det.\1946’; one male (DZUP), idem except ‘18–10-941’; two females (DZUP), ‘ Curitiba \ XII-1946 \P. J. Moure’ [underside: ‘ Paraná \ Brasil’] ‘ Xylocopa ♀ \bimaculata\ Friese \ Pe J. S. Moure 1947’ (in one of the females, the identification label lacks the word ‘ Friese’); two females (DZUP), idem except ‘X. (Dasyxylocopa) \ bimaculata ♀ \ Friese \ Pe J. S. Moure 1986’ (in one of the females, the identification label lacks the symbol ‘ ♀ ’); one male (DZUP), ‘UNIÃO VITÓRIA-PR\BRASIL III/1967 \E. U. Breyer leg’ ‘ Xylocopa ♂ \bimaculata\ Friese’; ‘ one female (DZUP), ‘VOSSOROCA, PR \ Tijucas do Sul \BRASIL iv-71\ Moure Mielke’ ‘X. (Dasyxylocopa) \bimaculata\ Friese, 1903 \Pe. J. S. Moure det. 1990’; one female (DZUP), ‘ 20-III-1988 \S. José dos Pinhais,\ PR. 850 m Mielke leg’ ‘ Xylocopa \bimaculata \ Friese’; one female ‘ Brasil, Paraná, Piraquara,\Mananciais da Serra,\ 25°29’S 48°58 ʹ W,\ 09. iii.2002, G.A.R. Melo’ ‘ Xylocopa \bimaculata ♀ \det. GAR Melo 2013’; one female (DZUP), ‘ Brasil, Paraná, Campo \ Largo, 980 m, 25°28’S \ 49°37 ʹ W, 10.iv.2005,\G. Melo & A. Aguiar’; one female (DZUP), ‘DZUP\161736’ ‘ Brasil, Paraná, Campina \ Grande do Sul, Pico do \ Caratuva, 09.xii.2008,\F. Dias & E. Carneiro’ ‘ Xylocopa \bimaculata ♀ \det. GAR Melo 2010’; one female (DZUP), ‘ Guarapuava, PR, Brasil \S25°23 ʹ 42.71”\W51°25 ʹ 27.51”\ Intervalo: 09:00 às 09:30 h\ 07.IX.2012\Diniz, M. E. R.’. Santa Catarina: one female (DZUP), ‘DZUP \161737’ ‘ Brasil, Santa Catarina,\ Campo Alegre, Alto \do Quiriri, 1300 m,\ 26°03’S 48°57 ʹ W, \ 14.xi.2009, G. Melo’ ‘ Xylocopa \bimaculata ♀ \det. GAR Melo 2010 ’.
description: Published as part of Melo, Gabriel A. R., 2017, Revision of the carpenter bee subgenus Xylocopa (Dasyxylocopa) (Hymenoptera: Apidae), pp. 379-390 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (7 - 8) on page 383, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1272724, http://zenodo.org/record/4779881