Immatures of Exomalopsine Bees with Notes on Nesting Biology and a Tribal Key to Mature Larvae of Noncorbiculate, Nonparasitic Apinae (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author
Rozen, Jerome G.
text
American Museum Novitates
2011
2011-11-07
2011
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ANTHOPHORULA
(
ANTHOPHORISCA
)
CONSOBRINA
(TIMBERLAKE)
DIAGNOSIS: Mature larvae of
Anthophorisca consobrina
are nearly indistinguishable from those of
A. chionura
,
above. On several specimens the antennal papilla seemed to be shorter, its length about one half its basal diameter, but after preparation, the difference was less distinct. The dorsal tooth of the mandibular apex of
A. consobrina
was slightly more acute with the side straighter than the slightly curved edges of that of
A. chionura
.
The spiracular atrium consists of about 12 chambers. Males have a transverse median scar on the apex of the ventral protuberance of abdominal segment 9.
MATERIAL STUDIED: One postdefecating, five predefecating larvae: NM:
Hidalgo
Co.:
26 mi
S
Animas
, IX-12, 13-1976 (
J.G. Rozen
), N #E2
.
REMARKS: Nesting biology was described by
Rozen (1977)
under the name “
Exomalopsis
near
chlorina
Cockerell.”