A newly recorded Subgenus Sudila from China with description of two new species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Lasioglossum)
Author
Zhang, Rui
Author
Li, Qiang
Author
Niu, Ze-Qing
Author
Zhu, Chao-Dong
text
Zootaxa
2011
2937
31
36
journal article
46492
10.5281/zenodo.203940
7a510553-ae3c-4027-81a8-646b361dc60d
1175-5326
203940
Lasioglossum (Sudila) semiruginosum
Zhang et Zhu
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 9–14
)
Diagnosis.
This species can be distinguished from all other
Sudila
species by the following combination of characters: body black; hairs very sparse; sculpture coarse, especially on mesoscutum; genal margin round, eye a trifle wider than genal; basal 1/2 of propodeal dorsum with longitudinal ridges.
FIGURES 9–14.
Lasioglossum (Sudila) semiruginosum
Zhang et Zhu
,
sp. nov.
, holotype, female. 9, frontal view of head; 10, lateral view of head; 11, lateral view of antennal; 12, lateral view of mesepisternal tubercle; 13, propodeal dorsum; 14, inner hind tibial spur. Scale line for figure 9–13, 0.5 mm; for 14, 0.25 mm.
Description.
Female. BL=
6.5 mm
. Body black without metallic tint; apical of mandible, wing vein dark brown; tegula, tarsus except basitarsus brown; tibial spur fawn; wing brown and transparent. Hairs whitish and sparse; apical of clypeus with a raw simple, pale yellow brown bristles; eye with glabrous hairs; tibia, basitarsus and apical of T5 with yellowish brown hairs; scopa well developed.
Head nearly as long as wide. Labrum with basal tubercle. Clypeus anterior margin truncate; clypeal tooth mild, anterior with fastigiated punctures become longitudinal furrows; punctures on supraclypeal area coarse, IS= 1; sculptures on ocellocular area disɭΓibuɭed uneven, IS= 0.5–2; punctures on frons area coarse, IS= 0.25; frontal carina distinct, upward exceeding the anterior ocellus lower margin; inner upper margin of eyes concave, lower convergent; scape attaining the lateral ocellus. Frontal view of head as in
Fig. 9
. seen laterally, gena margin round (
Fig. 10
), EW: GW= 9: 8, with longitudinally striate; HL: HW= 66: 67; IOD: OOD: Od: OCD= 11: 13: 7: 6; UOD: MOD: LOD= 49: 54: 37; scape L: pedicel L: F1L: F2L: F3L: F4L: F5L: F6L: F7L: F8L: F9L: F10L= 33: 6: 5: 2: 3: 4: 5: 5: 6: 6: 7: 9; F2L: F2W= 3: 7. Antenna as in
Fig. 11
.
Mesoscutum and scutellum with coarse punctures, IS= 1–2 (
Fig. 15
B); medianmesoscutal line and parapsidal line distinct; mesepisternum finely granular, upper area with transverse striation, lower area with a mild but characteristic tubercle (
Fig. 12
); metepisternum, lateral surface of propodeum with transverse striation; propodeal dorsum truncate apically, basal 1/2 with longitudinal ridges as in
Fig. 13
and
Fig. 15
D; not separated with carina from lateral and posterior surface; MCL: MTL: PDL= 32: 13: 15.
FIGURES 15.
Lasioglossum (Sudila) genotrigonum
Zhang et Zhu
,
sp. nov.
(A, C) and
L. (S.) semiruginosum
Zhang et Zhu
,
sp. nov.
(B, D), both holotypes, female. A, B: Mesoscutum; C, D: Propodeal dorsum.
WL=
5.5 mm
. Fore wing with veins 1r-m, 2r-m, 2m-Cu and M-b narrower than Rs-a and M-a; 2m-Cu and M-b narrower than 1r-m; hamuli arranged in 2-1-2.
Basitibial plate elongate oval, apically pointed; inner hind tibial spur with 5 distinct, fastigiated, pectinate teeth (
Fig. 14
).
Metasoma elongate oval. Posterior areas of T1–T5 straightforwards, the wrinkle not obvious. T1 fine and sparsely punctures on anterior area nearly smooth, middle area IS= 2; T2, T3 and T4 IS= 2–3, anterior area coarser than posterior areas; T5 IS= 1; T6 hidden in T5 below, with U-shaped pygidial plate; sting L=
0.35 mm
.
Male. Unknown.
Type
material.
Holotype
, Ƥ,
China
, Hainan, Baisha County, Nankai Down, 19°13ʹN 109°42ʹE,
249m
,
21 November 2008
, Rui Zhang.
Paratypes
, 1Ƥ,
China
, Hainan, Ledong County, Jianfeng Mountain, 18°74ʹN 108°86ʹE,
828m
,
20 May 2009
, Rui Zhang; 1Ƥ,
China
, Hainan, Baisha County, Hongkan Damsite, 19°08ʹN 109°50ʹE,
516m
,
18 November 2008
, Rui Zhang; 1Ƥ,
China
, Hainan, Ledong County, Jianfeng Mountain, 18°74ʹN 108°86ʹE,
828m
,
21 May 2009
, Rui Zhang.
Type
series were deposited in the Insect Collections of Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
China
.
Distribution.
China
(Hainan)
Etymology.
The name
semiruginosum
is derived from the Latin
semi-
(= semi-) and Latin
ruginosum
(= ridges), basal 1/2 of propodeal dorsum with longitudinal ridges.