New records and diagnostic notes on large carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: genus Xylocopa Latreille), from the Amazon River basin of South America
Author
Mawdsley, Jonathan R.
text
Insecta Mundi
2018
2018-05-25
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.3699701
e23922d1-6f43-4280-8ac6-131767dc4464
1942-1354
3699701
8EB081BE-6413-4CE7-861C-97B4746E075A
Xylocopa
(
Schonnherria
)
subcyanea
Pérez 1901: 74–75
Fig. 21
Known distribution.
Argentina
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
(
Alagoas
,
Bahia
,
Espírito Santo
,
Goiás
,
Mato Grosso
,
Minas Gerais
, Pará,
Paraná
,
São Paulo
),
Paraguay
,
Uruguay
(
Hurd 1978: 25
).
Type
locality: “
Brésil
(Province de Matto-Grosso)” (
Pérez 1901: 75
)
Material examined.
Brazil
:
Pará
:
Cachimbo
,
VI.1962
,
M. Alvarenga
and
F. M. Oliveira
(
5 ♂
)
;
Conceição do Araguaia
,
II.1960
,
J. S. P. Costa
(
3 ♀
,
4 males
),
VII.1959
,
M. Alvarenga
(
7 ♂
), Óbidos,
IX.1959
,
F. M. Oliveira
(
2 ♀
,
1 ♂
)
.
Notes.
The female of this small-bodied species can be readily separated from the other small-bodied species of subgenus
Schonnherria
in the Amazon basin by the hyaline (as opposed to darkly pigmented) wings,