Lophopedia paraensis Aguiar, 2009, sp.nov.
Creators: name: Aguiar, Antonio J. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Lophopedia
Lophopedia paraensis

description: Lophopedia paraensis sp.nov.
(Figs. 20, 67−73)
Comments and Diagnosis. Lophopedia paraensis sp.nov. is very similar to L. minor sp.nov. and L. apicalis. Lophopedia paraensis sp.nov. can be distinguished mainly by the pale brown sterna of male and female, and the marginal hair bands of terga completely absent. Lopohopedia paraensis sp. nov. is also distinguished by the terminalia of male, pubescence of S6 and S7 and genitalia with a very short lateral lobe of gonostyli. The S6 of males of L. paraensis present setae occupying mostly the surface of apical portion and on L. minor the setae are shorter and distributed mostly on apical margin. The females of L. paraensis sp.nov., L. minor sp.nov. and L. apicalis are mainly identified by the geographic distribution. The female specimens listed of L. paraensis sp.nov. were tentatively associate with the males by the geographic distribution.
Distribution: BRAZIL: Amapá, Amazonas, Goiás, Pará; FRENCH GUIANA (Fig. 20).
Description. Holotype male (DZUP, 162151). Body length: 6.0 mm. Color. Integument mostly dark brown to black, except mandible pale yellow with apices black; labrum yellow; clypeus with a wide yellow mark on lower and lateral margins; supraclypeal area with a small yellow mark on lower margin; paraocular area with a thin yellow stripe occupying the lower third; scape, pedicel and flagellomeres reddish orange; scape with lower fourth pale yellow (Fig. 78). Mediotarsus and distitasus pale yellow; tibial spurs dark brown. Wing membrane pale brown infumated with numerous dark brown microtrichiae; veins on proximal half dark brown; petrostigma and distal veins pale yellow to orange. Pubescence. Mostly pale brown; except for labrum, paraocular area, genal area, lower mandible margin, sternal margins and tergal margins with white pubescence. Low paraocular area, under the antenall fovea, with dense pale white plumose pubescence; genal area with dense very short white plumose pubescence. Mesoscutum and scutellum with dense very short pubescence, velvet-like; on scutellum about 2x longer than in mesoscutum, and intermingled with erect long simple setae (ca. 1.5x F2 diameter). Mesepisternum with sparse short pale brown hairs. Terga mostly smooth; T3−4 with a very short maginal hairs band of dark brown plumose hairs, occupying less than third of margin laterally; margins of T5 and T6 completelly smooth; S2−5, with pubescence pattern of the genus; S6 with numerous stout setae on apical portion. Integument sculpture. Clypeus and supraclypeal area with dense coarse punctures (<0.5 pd); frons with dense and sparse coarse punctures (0.5−2 pd), with some small smooth areas on lateral portions of disc; low paraocular area, antennal scrobe with dense finely minute punctures (1 pd); mesoscutum with dense finely minute punctures (<0.5 pd); scutellum with dense fine punctures, coarser than mesoscutum; mesepisternum with mostly sparse coarse punctures (2 pd). Metapostnotum mostly smooth, with sparse finely minute punctures. Structure. Head: width, 2.32, length, 1.73; clypeus: length, 0.65, width, 1.00; maximum T2 width: 2.16; lower interocular distance: 1.06; upper interocular distance: 1.37; scape: maximum width, 0.17, length, 0.68; length of F1−F3: 0.19, 0.09, 0.15; F2 diameter: 0.19; fore wing length, including the tegulae: 6.80. Lamella of pronotal collar strongly concave in dorsal view and contacting the anterior margin of mesoscutum. Scutellum strongly convex.
Paratype female (DZUP162151). Body length: 6.4 mm. Color. Similar to male, except clypeus with only two pale yellow spots on margin laterally; supraclypeal area and paraocular area completely dark brown; mediotarsus and distitarsus completelly dark brown; hind basitarsus pale yellow. Pubescence. Similar to male; except for T5−T6 with marginal band of simple hairs complete; scope of hind basitarsus white plumose. Integument sculpture. Similar to male, except for frons with finely minute punctures intermingled with coarse sparse punctures on frons disc; finely minute punctures on mesoscutum; scutellum with finely minute punctures intermingled with saprse ccoarse pucntures (<0.5 pd). Structure. Head: width, 2.44, length, 1.97; clypeus: length, 0.63, width, 1.06; maximum T2 width: 2.22; lower interocular distance: 1.02; upper interocular distance: 1.41; scape: maximum width, 0.18, length, 0.65; length of F1−3: 0.19, 0.09, 0.15; F2 diameter: 0.19; fore wing length, including the tegulae: 6.56.
Variation. One of the female specimens from Amazonas presents a small yellow mark on lower mrgin of supraclypeal area. Two of the four specimens from Amazonas do not present the fine punctures on disc of frons.
Etymology. The species name refers to the antique Brazilian state of Grão Pará.
Type material. Holotype male, “ DZUP \ 162150” “APA CURIÁU-AP\ 15/02/03 \ Col. R. Frazão\ Sítio Manoel”. Paratypes: BRAZIL, Amapá: “ DZUP \ 162151” “APA CURIÁU-AP\ 15/02/03 \ Col. R. Frazão\ Sítio Manoel”; 1 female (MPEG), “ Brasil Amapá\ 23-XI-1981 \ Goarayeb e equipe” “CURIAU\ Armadilha\ Supensa 4m ”; 1 female (MPEG), “ Brasil Pará\ Serra Norte\ SALOBO\ 11.VIII.1984 ” “ Brasil Pará\ W. França ”; Amazonas, 1 female, “ DZUP \ 029489” “ Brasil, Amazonas, Manaus,\ Margem do Rio Negro; praia do\ Tupé; 22.10.2006 ”; AJCAguiar”, 3 females (DZUP), idem except “029488”, “029460”, “029490”; Goiás, 1 male, “ DZUP \ 161880” “ Brasil, Goiás, 20 km SE de\ Campos Belos, 13º10’S \ 46º40’W 04.iv.2003 \ G.Melo, A. Aguiar, P. Marchi\ & R. Gonçalves, Cerradão\ sobre Massapé”; Pará, 1 male (DZUP), “ Tetrapedia 3 \ mandibularis Friese\ det. Ducke 1913” “Pará\ 20.11.99 ” “Coll. Ducke\ 1955”; 1 male (DZUP), “Macapá\ 19.05.1900 \ Ducke” “ Brazil \ Estado do\ Pará”; FRENCH GUIANA, 1 male (SEMC), “ FRENCH GUIANA \ Kourou, km 17 SW.\ 7 march 1977 \ D. Roubik, No. 106”; 1 female, “ FRENCH GUIANA \ 15 KM sw Sinnamary\ x-8-76, Winston,\ Otis & Michener”.
description: Published as part of Aguiar, Antonio J. C., 2009, Taxonomic revision of the bee genus Lophopedia Michener and Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini), pp. 1-52 in Zootaxa 2193 on pages 34-38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189415