Notes on the bee genus Alloscirtetica Holmberg, 1909 in northern Chile with the description of two new altiplanic species and a key for the Chilean species of Eucerini (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author
Vivallo, Felipe
text
Zootaxa
2009
2010
16
30
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.185792
e3f619a9-30b0-4314-97c4-4b022723cd38
1175-5326
185792
Svastrides orellanae
(Spinola)
The female of this species has the body almost completely covered by dark brown pilosity. Anterior third of the mesoscutum, propodeum, T1, T2 and lateral area of T4 with white pilosity. The male differs from
S
.
melanura
in the clypeus almost completely yellow and white hairs on the head. It also has a tuft of white pilosity on each side of T4 and T5. Illustrations of the male genitalia and other structures of both sexes were provided by
Urban (1972)
.
Svastrides orellanae
is distributed exclusively in
Chile
. There are records of this species only from the Region of Coquimbo: Coquimbo (
Toro 1986
), La Serena, Río Cochiguaz, Carrizal and El Pangue (
Urban 1972
). This species visits
Melissa officinalis
L.,
Psoralea glandulosa
L. (
Fabaceae
) (
Ruíz 1935
;
Wagenknecht 1970
);
Prosopis chilensis
,
Geoffroea decorticans
Burk. (Fabaceae)
,
Malesherbia humilis
Poepp. (Malesherbiaceae)
,
Robinia pseudoacacia
L. (
Papilionaceae
) and
Madia sativa
(Compositae) (
Wagenknecht 1970
)
.