Euaspis carbonaria
Creators: name: Belavadi, Vasuki V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Euaspis
Euaspis carbonaria

description: Euaspis carbonaria (Smith, 1854)
(Figs11, 12)
Stelis carbonaria Smith, 1854: 275.
Euaspis (Parevaspis) carbonaria Smith, Meyer, 1922; 23 Euaspis (Parevaspis) carbonaria Smith, Pasteels, 1980: 82.
Description. Female. Body length 9.12± 1.04 mm; black. Head: Black; coarsely punctate; dense white pubescence on paraocular area, clypeus laterally, golden yellow pubescence on labrum; mandible tridentate; clypeus strongly convex, with median longitudinal ridge, apical margin incurved with small tubercles; three longitudinal ridges or carinae on face, juxtantennal carinae plus median carina on frons and supraclypeal area often reduced to shiny ridge; anterior tentorial pit at intersection of subantennal and epistomal sulcus; F1 shorter than pedicel; first labial segment almost twice length of second; inter-ocular distance longer than inter-antennal distance.
Mesosoma: Punctation coarse; dense white pubescence on anterior margin of pronotum, beneath pronotal lobe; golden yellow pubescence on inner side of tarsi; pronotal lobe broad, swollen with margin carinate; anterior margin of mesoscutum depressed medially; posterior margin of mesoscutellum rounded, with medial invagination, overhanging metanotum; fore wing hyaline at base, dark fuscous at apex; hind wing subhyaline; tarsal claws cleft; arolia present.
Metasoma: Punctation fine, sparse; T6 slightly concave with spines laterally, apical margin slightly notched medially; S6 punctation coarse, with acutely angular discal and latero-basal teeth, concave, apex deflexed, covered with long white pubescence.
Male. Body length 9.94± 1.08 mm; black; similar to female except as follows: T7 with three apical spines, median one more prominent than lateral ones; apical margin of S4 with dense pubescence; S5 with apico-lateral spines; S6 fringed with pubescence, apical margin incurved medially, with minute median angular projection; S8 convex above lateral apodeme, with few sparse hairs on anterior margin, spiculum elongated stalk-like; genitalia with gonostylus bulged suddenly, slightly concave anteriorly with sparse and short hairs; penis valve pointed distally, raised sharp carina between penis valve and gonostylus.
Floral Associations: Cuphea hyssopifolia (Lythraceae), Rosa rubiginosa (Rosaceae), and Pongamia pinnata (Fabaceae).
Flight period: March to September.
Distribution. India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Burma.
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore, GKVK, 1♀, 16.iv.2009, sweep net, Veena; 1♀, 21.vi.2011; 1♀, 19.ix.2011, sweep net,collected by Arathi; 1♀, 20.viii.2008, sweep net, Dhanyavathi; 2♂, 22.ix.2014, sweep net, Veereshkumar; Mysore, 1♀, 16.iii.2009, sweep net, Dhanyavathi; Chitradurga, 1♀, 17.vii.2013, sweep net, Veereshkumar; Hassan, 1♀, 2.vi.2013, sweep net, Veereshkumar; Koppal, 1♀, 11.v.2013, sweep net, Veereshkumar; Chintamani, 1♀, 2.vi.2014, sweep net, Veereshkumar; Dharwad, 1♂, 1.viii.2012, sweep net, Venkata; Pavagada, ♂, 17.vii.2013, sweep net, Veereshkumar.
description: Published as part of Belavadi, Vasuki V., 2017, The Resin and Carder bees of south India (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae: Anthidiini), pp. 436-468 in Zootaxa 4317 (3) on page 451, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/884690