A revision of the genus Xenochilicola (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Colletidae), with the description of a new species
Author
Genaro, Julio A.
Author
Packer, Laurence
text
Zootaxa
2005
1054
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14
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.170069
115690f0-8bb8-4fdc-bee4-a5b52421eb18
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170069
Xenochilicola haroldotoroi
Genaro and Packer
,
n. sp.
(Figs. 3, 6, 18–21)
Diagnosis. Male.
The dark metasoma with brown marginal zones differentiates the new species from
X. diminuta
. The length:width ratio of the face, in frontal view is (1.12:1.01), intermediate between
X. mamigna
(0.92:0.90) and
X. diminuta
(1.01:0.84). Mesoscutellum densely punctured (i<d). S5 with lateral brushes of hair (
Fig. 18
), as in
X. mamigna
(
X. diminuta
has a distinct lateral hairy process, Fig. 14). S7 with large disc (in
X. diminuta
it is small) and without lobes; the form of the apodemal arms differ from the other species (
Figs. 10
, 15 and 19). S8 with the median apical process shorter than in other species (compare
Figs. 11
, 16 and 20). Males are larger than those of the other two species.
Description. Male.
Body length
3.10–3.50 mm
, forewing length
2.10–2.30 mm
(Fig. 6).
Colouration
. Black with yellow on mandible (except apex dark brown), labrum, clypeus, and spot on malar space, scape and pedicel ventrally, spot on pronotal lobe and tegula; apices of femora (on forefemur reaching midlength ventrally), whole foretibia, mid and hind tibia dorsally, all tarsi; following parts brown: antennal flagellum, wing veins, marginal zone on metasomal T1–T5 (in some specimens whole T5), T6, median areas on apical margins of sterna.
Surface sculpture
. Microsculpture imbricate except: labrum, supraclypeal area, frons and vertex with surface shiny. Labrum with dense, coarse punctures, clypeus with sparse shallow large punctures, gena with punctures longitudinally effaced (i>>d). Frons, paraocular area and vertex punctatereticulate; supraclypeal area irregularly punctate, mesoscutum irregularly punctate (i~d on disk, i<d medially), mesoscutellum (i<d) and mesepisternum (i<d), metanotum coarsely punctate; preepisternum reticulatepunctate, hypoepimeral area with longitudinal striae, becoming reticulate above, irregularly punctate (i<d; i=1–2d on disk); propodeum with dorsal and lateral surfaces reticulate, lateral surface irregularly punctate on dorsal half (i=1–2d); T1 irregularly punctate (i=0.5– 3d on disk; i<d at sides; acarinarium impunctate); T2 weakly punctate, T5–T6 with few sparse punctures.
FIGURES 18–21.
Xenochilicola haroldotoroi
n. sp.
male:
18.
ventral surface of S5;
19
. S7;
20.
S8;
21.
genitalia. Dorsal views to left, ventral to right.
Pubescence
. White, short and appressed on lower paraocular area, posterior margin of pronotum and anterior margin of mesoscutum; long sparse hairs (>1MOD) on clypeus, frons and vertex; shorter and denser on gena, pronotum, mesoscutum and mesoscutellum (>MOD); denser, shorter hairs on mesepisternum and propodeum (~MOD); legs with short hairs, sparse on femur and tibia (<MOD); metasomal terga with short sparse hairs (=0.3 MOD), longer on anterior margin of T1, and apical margin of T6 (~1MOD); lateral brushes of long hairs on apical margin of S5 (~2MOD).
Structure
. Head slightly longer than broad (
1.10–1.14 mm
long; 1.00–
1.02 mm
broad, N=4, Fig. 3); stipes and cardo very long (~ 6.5 MOD), stipes slightly longer; clypeus convex, projecting 0.4–0.5 of its length below lower margin of eyes, apical margin of clypeus slightly concave; labrum transverse width:length (4:1), with apical margin slightly more convex than in previous species, gena narrower than eye width, in lateral view (2.0:2.3). OOC:IOC (11:19), UOD:LOD (57:38), LMA:MW (7:10). Basal area of propodeum same length as metanotum and about one third as long as mesoscutellum, in dorsal view (10:10:27). S5 with posterior margin deeply concave with central portion convex (
Fig. 18
); medioapical protuberance on S6.
Terminalia
. S7 with disc large, without apical lobes; apodemal arms rounded (
Fig. 19
). S8 similar to
X. mamigna
except the apical process short, not hairy (
Fig. 20
). Genital capsule as in
Fig. 21
; volsella with digitus not extending beyond cuspis.
Female
: unknown.
Comments
.
X. haroldotoroi
n. sp.
is intermediate between the other two species of the genus in several features: the ratio of length to width of the head and the relative length of the malar area; antenna with flagellomere I modified, expanded at apical margin on outer side, as in
X. diminuta
; mesoscutellum slightly longer in this species than in the others.
Etymology
.
We take pleasure in naming this species after the collector of the
holotype
, the late Dr. Haroldo Toro, who made such a large contribution to our understanding of the systematics of South American bees.
Material Examined
: (
Fig. 13
)
Holotype
male.
CHILE
,
Región II
, [Pan American Highway], Km 1680,
4.x.1997
, H. Toro coll. (
AMNH
).
Paratypes
: same data as
holotype
, except one specimen collected by M. Hormazábal.
Holotype
and one
paratype
at
AMNH
, one
paratype
each at Universidad Católica de Valparaíso,
Chile
and York University,
Canada
. All specimens collected at
Prosopis tamarugo
Philippi (Mimosaceae)
. The junior author could find no
P. tamarugo
at the
type
locality when he visited the area in
April 2004
.