The genus Amegilla (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Anthophorini) in Australia: a revision of the subgenus Asaropoda
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Leijs, Remko
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Dorey, James
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Hogendoorn, Katja
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.908.47375
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Amegilla (Asaropoda) epaphrodita Brooks, 1988
Figure 11A-M
Amegilla (Asaropoda) epaphrodita
Brooks, 1988: 554.
Specimens examined
(2 males, 5 females).
Type.
Holotype of
A. epaphrodita
: female, 15 km E. Mt Cahill, NT, ANIC.
Remarks.
The description of the female holotype of this species can be found in
Brooks (1988)
, here the male allotype is described for the first time.
Diagnosis.
Pubescence black on T1-T3 (females) and T1-T4 (males), remaining terga white.
Description.
Male allotype ANIC Split Rock Qld. Note: Probably mislabelled, likely to be Ubir Rock NT: Body length 17 mm, forewing length 11.1 mm, head width 5.1 mm.
Structure
: Inner orbits of eyes diverging above; head wider than long; clypeal protuberance in profile 0.62 eye width; mandible without subapical tooth; F1 equal to combined length of next 1.7 flagellomeres; F1 0.73
x
as long as scape; F2 0.69
x
as long as F3; F3-F10 1.2
x
as long as wide; last flagellomere 1.09
x
as long as F1; marginal cell length 0.81
x
distance from apex of cell to wing tip; cu-v of hind wing 1.15
x
length of second abscissa of M+Cu; S5 with apicomedial emargination 3.6
x
as wide as deep, S6 with apicomedial emargination circa five times as wide as deep.
Genitalia
: penis valves with small shoulders; volsella small, with ten long setae (Fig.
11H
); gonocoxa laterally with numerous small setae; apex of gonocoxa ventrally without process, but with notch near volsella (Fig.
11H
); outer gonostylus long and robust with strong setae on inner surface; inner gonostylus circa as long as outer gonostylus, with numerous long setae (Fig.
11G
); S7 (Fig.
11E
); S8 apex wide slightly emarginate with fine setae on most of the surface (Fig.
11F
).
Figure 11.
Amegilla (Asaropoda) epaphrodita
Brooks, 1988.
Pubescence
: Head white on labrum, clypeus and scape, pale hairs on genae and frons above antennal sockets; scutum, scutellum and metanotum with pale brown hairs; mesosoma laterally and ventrally with black hairs; pronotum, mespisternum anteriorly, and propodeum pale brown; fore leg with long white hairs on posterior parts of femur, tibia and tarsi; fore leg inner surfaces of tibia and tarsus and middle and hind legs with black hairs only; metasomal terga black, apart from white hairs covering T5-T7, and plumes on lateral corners of S3-S5; S4 apicomedial area with two small patches of downward directed black bristles, S5 with two longitudinal semi-parallel patches of posteriorly directed bristles flanking the emargination.
Colouration
: Integument black, apart from: scape ivory patch below; labrum ivory with brown marks in dorsolateral corners; clypeus ivory, with two black parallel longitudinal marks; supraclypeal area with small ivory triangle; paraclypeal area ivory; mandible ivory at base, brown at tip; proboscis brown.
Phenology.
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Remarks.
The collection site Split Rock, Qld of the two males may be a labelling error, as it is outside the distribution of the species as we currently understand it.
Flower records.
no data.
Distribution.
Figure
11I
.