Andrena (Poecilandrena) hierosolymitana 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 hierosolymitana

description: Andrena (Poecilandrena) hierosolymitana Pisanty & Scheuchl n. sp.
(Figs. 3, 14, 23, 42, 55, 64)
Female. Body length: 6.5–7.5 mm.
Color. Basolateral margin of clypeus with rainbow-like pattern of alternating greenish, golden and reddish metallic colors; rest of clypeus black (Fig. 14). Rest of head strongly greenish-metallic, sometimes with golden or bluish hues depending on angle of view (Fig. 23). Anterior side of flagellomere 1 black; 2–4 black to orange; 5–10 mostly orange; posterior side black. Mesonotum, scutellum and metanotum strongly greenish- to bluish-metallic (Fig. 42). Pronotum, mesepisternum and propodeum dark brown to black, sometimes with weak metallic hue (Fig. 55). Legs black to brown. Wings hyaline, veins brown, stigma brown peripherally and orange medially. Tergal discs brown, hardly metallic (Fig. 64). Tergal marginal zones reddish.
Pubescence. Head and mesosoma mostly with white to brownish plumose hairs of medium length and density. Facial foveae with dense, minute dark brown hairs (Fig. 23). Propodeal corbicula incomplete, posterodorsal margin with strongly plumose long white hairs. Surface of corbicula with sparse, strongly plumose long white hairs. Legs with white to brown hairs. Flocculus developed, with white plumose hairs. Scopa with white hairs anteriorly and light brown hairs posteriorly, hairs simple on medial part, strongly but unilaterally plumose on outer parts. Tergal discs and marginal zones with white hairs, minute and inconspicuous medially, longer and thicker laterally; apical hair bands weakly apparent and strongly interrupted. Prepygidial fimbria light brown.
Head. 1.3 times broader than long. Labral process trapezoidal, much broader than long, apical margin straight (Fig. 3). Clypeus convex, strongly shagreened basally, weakly to strongly shagreened apically, weakly to strongly punctured, distance between punctures 1.5–2 puncture diameters, puncture size medium (Fig. 14). Facial foveae more or less rectangular, of uniform width, as wide as 0.4 antennocular distance, extending from level of lower end of middle ocellus to middle-lower end of antennal socket (Fig. 23). Distance of fovea from lateral ocellus 2.5 ocellus diameters. Flagellomere 1 2.5 times longer than broad, slightly shorter than 2+3+4; 2–4 broader than long; the following more or less square. Ocelloccipital distance 1.2 ocellus diameters.
Mesosoma. Dorsolateral angle of pronotum not elevated, pronotum not carinate. Mesonotum shiny, shagreened peripherally, weakly shagreened to smooth medially, strongly and somewhat coarsely punctured, puncture density gradually decreasing medially and forming an impunctate midline, distance between punctures 0.5–1 puncture diameters at the densest areas (Fig. 42). Scutellum similarly shagreened, punctation finer and sparser, distance between punctures 1–2 puncture diameters (Fig. 42). Mesepisternum alveolate, anterior half with dense U-shaped punctures. Propodeal corbicula shiny, reticulate and impunctate. Propodeal triangle radially rugose to rugose-areolate basally, finely reticulate apically (Fig. 55). Inner side of hind femur not carinate. Inner hind tibial spur more or less straight and of uniform width. Hind leg pretarsal claws bidentate. Recurrent vein 1 reaching submarginal cell 2 slightly distal to its middle. Nervulus interstitial.
Metasoma. Tergal discs weakly shagreened, finely to very finely punctured, distance between punctures 1–2 puncture diameters, puncture size and density gradually decreasing from tergum 1 to 4 (Fig. 64). Tergal marginal zones weakly depressed, occupying 1/3–2/5 of tergal width, finely shagreened basally, finely shagreened to smooth apically, very finely and sparsely punctured to impunctate. Pygidial plate alveolate, not elevated medially.
Male. Unknown.
Differential diagnosis. A. hierosolymitana resembles A. saturata Warncke, but in the mesonotum of A. saturata the shagreenation is stronger, and the punctation is shallower and more evenly spaced.
Distribution: Israel (Jerusalem).
Flight period: February–March.
Flower records: None.
Etymology. The species is named after the city of Jerusalem, where it was collected (Jerusalem = Hierosolyma in Latin).
Material examined: ISRAEL AND WEST BANK: Holotype: Jerusalem, 15.iii.1931, S.G. Bodenheimer (♀) (OLML); Paratypes: Jerusalem, 18.ii.1931, S.G. Bodenheimer (1♀); 15.iii.1931, S.G. Bodenheimer (1♀) (OLML).
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 160-161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1154360