Andrena (Poecilandrena) sedumella Pisanty & Scheuchl & Dorchin 2018, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pisanty, Gideon
name: Scheuchl, Erwin
name: Dorchin, Netta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Andrena
Andrena sedumella

description: Andrena (Poecilandrena) sedumella Scheuchl & Pisanty n. sp.
(Figs. 11, 26, 28, 39, 52, 61, 72, 74, 77, 90, 103, 116, 131, 137)
Female. Body length: 5.5–6 mm.
Color. Head and thorax black (Figs. 11, 39). Flagellomeres 2–10 black to reddish-brown posteriorly, reddishorange anteriorly. Legs brown to black. Wings brownish-hyaline, veins brown, stigma light brown. Tergal discs dark brown to black (Fig. 61). Tergal marginal zones dark brown to black basally, reddish apically.
Pubescence. Head and anteriodorsal part of mesosoma with mostly white to yellowish, short to medium plumose hairs. Facial foveae with very dense minute hairs. Mesepisternum with long white to yellowish hairs. Propodeal corbicula incomplete, posterodorsal margin with long, white plumose hairs. Surface of corbicula with sparse, long, simple to plumose white hairs. Flocculus developed, with long white plumose hairs. Femora with mostly white hairs. Tibiae and tarsi with white to brown hairs. Scopa of moderate size, hairs strongly plumose, white anteriorly, white to brown posteriorly, gradually darker posterobasally. Terga with minute inconspicuous bright hairs. Tergal marginal zones 2–4 with narrow white hair bands, strongly interrupted on 2–3, continuous on 4. Prepygidial fimbria golden-brown.
Head. 1.1–1.2 times broader than long. Galea finely shagreened. Labral process trapezoidal, more or less smooth (Fig. 11). Clypeus weakly convex, shagreened to weakly transversely grooved, punctation somewhat coarse and shallow, with a distinct narrow impunctate midline, distance between punctures 0–1 puncture diameters (Fig. 11). Facial foveae shallow, of more or less uniform width, about as wide as 1/3 antennocular distance, extending from level of lower end of lateral ocellus to lower end of antennal socket or slightly below. Flagellomere 1 about 1.5 times as long as broad, about as long as 2+3 (Fig. 26); 2–3 broader than long, 3 slightly longer than 2; the following more or less square. Distance of fovea from lateral ocellus 1.5–2 ocellus diameters. Ocelloccipital distance 3/4 ocellus diameter.
Mesosoma. Dorsolateral angle of pronotum not elevated, pronotum not carinate. Mesonotum very shiny, smooth to weakly shagreened, strongly, densely and somewhat coarsely punctured, distance between punctures 0.5 puncture diameters (Fig. 39). Scutellum similar, smooth, distance between punctures 0.5–1 puncture diameters (Fig. 39). Mesepisternum shallowly rugose-areolate, shagreened, coarsely but shallowly punctured, distance between punctures about 1 puncture diameter (Fig. 28). Propodeal triangle rugose basally, with radial grooves at basalmost part, and finely alveolate apically (Fig. 52). Propodeal corbicula reticulately shagreened and impunctate. Inner side of hind femur rounded, not carinate. Hind tibial spurs more or less straight and of uniform width. Hind leg pretarsal claws bidentate. Recurrent vein 1 meeting submarginal cell 2 near its middle. Nervulus more or less interstitial.
Metasoma. Tergal discs 1–3 smooth and shiny, 4 weakly to strongly shagreened (Figs. 61, 72). Tergal disc 1 densely, strongly and somewhat coarsely punctured, distance between punctures 0.5 puncture diameter, punctation of following discs gradually decreasing in density, depth and size (Figs. 61, 72). Tergal marginal zones 1–4 occupying 1/4–1/2 tergal width, smooth to shagreened, punctation similar to discs but finer, hardly noticeable on tergum 4; width, shagreenation and depression of marginal zones increasing gradually from tergum 1 to 4. Pygidial plate finely alveolate, not elevated medially.
Male. Body length: 5.5 mm.
Color. Clypeus yellow except for a narrow black basolateral margin; paraocular area with small apical yellow spot, not reaching anterior tentorial pit (Fig. 74). Flagellomeres 2–11 black to brown posteriorly, brown to reddishorange anteriorly. Rest of body similar to female.
Pubescence. Head and mesosoma with mostly white to brownish plumose hairs. Clypeus with dense white hairs of medium length. Supraclypeal and paraocular areas and scape with white to brownish hairs of medium length and density. Genal area with short white hairs dorsally, gradually longer to very long on ventral edge. Vertex with white to brownish, short and medium hairs. Mesonotum, scutellum and metanotum with sparse, long, white to brownish hairs. Mesepisternum with very long white hairs. Propodeum with dorsolateral fringe of long white hairs. Femora and tibiae with white hairs. Tarsi with white to brownish hairs. Terga with minute inconspicuous bright hairs. Tergal marginal zones 2–4 with narrow white, strongly interrupted hair bands; 5 with continuous band of very sparse whitish to golden hairs. Prepygidial fimbria whitish to golden.
Head. 1.1–1.2 times broader than long. Galea finely shagreened. Clypeus weakly convex, smooth to weakly shagreened, moderately punctured, often with impunctate midline, distance between punctures 0.5–1.5 puncture diameters, puncture size medium (Fig. 77). Flagellomere 1 slightly longer than broad, about as long as 3 (Fig. 74); 2 broader than long; the following longer than broad. Ocelloccipital distance 3/4–1 ocellus diameter.
Mesosoma. Mesonotum and scutellum very smooth and shiny medially, shagreened peripherally, strongly and somewhat coarsely punctured, distance between punctures 1 puncture diameter (Fig. 90). Rest of mesosoma similar to female.
Metasoma. Similar to female, but punctation of tergum 1 slightly sparser (Fig. 103).
Genitalia and hidden sterna. Gonocoxites connected. Dorsal lobe of gonocoxite absent (Fig. 116). Basal visible half of penis valves tapering apically; apical half resembling a bird's head, slightly broadened and then tapering to a needlelike apex (Figs. 116, 131). Blades of gonostyli not much broadened, apex rounded (Figs. 116, 131). Sternite 8 columnar, narrow and elongate, apex slightly broadened (Fig. 137).
Differential diagnosis. A. sedumella closely resembles A. crassana inka, but differs from it as follows: body smaller, flagellomere 3 longer (Figs. 25–26, 73–74), mesonotum smoother (Figs. 38–39, 89–90), mesepisternum more shallowly sculptured (Figs. 27–28), terga 3–4 more finely punctured (Figs. 71–72), gonostyli and penis valves more slender basally (Figs. 115–116), and gonocoxite without dorsal lobe (Figs. 115–116) (see female key, couplet 6, and male key, couplet 4).
Distribution: Israel.
Flight period: February–April.
Flower records: Crassulaceae: Sedum hispanicum (1♀); Sedum sp. (20♀).
Etymology. The species is named after the plant genus Sedum, on which it was collected in three different localities.
Material examined: ISRAEL AND WEST BANK: Holotype: Lakhish, 3km NE, 31.575˚N 34.870˚E, 11.iii.2016, G. Pisanty (♂) (SMNHTAU); Paratypes: Banias, 18.iv.1992, R. Kasher (2♀); Gal'on, 23.iii.2010, G. Pisanty (2♂); Jerusalem, Rehavia West, 27.iv.1945, on Sedum hispanicum (1♀); Kefar Giladi S, 1.iv.1997, R. Kasher (1♂); Lakhish, 21.iii.2012, T. Shapira (6♂); 10.iv.2012, T. Shapira (3♀, 2♂); 6.iii.2013, T. Shapira (2♀, 1♂); 19.iii.2013, T. Shapira (2♂); 20.iii.2013, T. Shapira (7♀, 1♂); 21.iii.2013, T. Shapira (1♀); Lakhish, 2km E, 4.iii.2016, G. Pisanty (4♂); 19.iii.2016, G. Pisanty (5♀, 4♂); Lakhish, 3km NE, 11.iii.2016, G. Pisanty (1♀, 4♂); 19.iii.2016, G. Pisanty, partly on Sedum (13♀, 1♂); 23.iii.2016, G. Pisanty, partly on Sedum (11♀, 2♂); 1.iv.2016, G. Pisanty, on Sedum (2♀); Mount Meron, 1100m, 17.iv.2000, A. Freidberg (2♂); Nahal Teqoa, 650m 31.iii.2009, A. Freidberg & M. Guershon (7♂); Park Britannia, 15.iv.2011, T. Koznichki (2♀, 1♂); 21.iv.2015, T. Chaprazaro (1♀); 24.iii.2016, T. Chaprazaro, on Sedum (1♀); 17.iv.2016, T. Chaprazaro (1♀); Ramat Hanadiv, 27.iv.2012, T. Shapira (1♀); Za'tara, 7.iv.2014, I. Arar (1♀) (ES, OLML, RMNH, SMNHTAU, ZSMC); Non-type material: Kefar Menahem, 3.iv.2017, T. Roth (1♂); Lakhish, 21.iii.2012, T. Shapira, stylopized (1♂); 18.ii.2013, T. Shapira, stylopized (1♀); 8.iv.2013, T. Shapira, stylopized (1♀); Lakhish, 3km NE, 23.iii.2016, G. Pisanty, stylopized (1♀) (SMNHTAU).
description: Published as part of Pisanty, Gideon, Scheuchl, Erwin & Dorchin, Netta, 2018, Taxonomic review of the subgenus Andrena (Poecilandrena) (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) in Israel and the Levant, pp. 151-188 in Zootaxa 4374 (2) on pages 164-165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1154360