Description of two new cases of gynandromorphism in Paratrigona Schwarz and Augochlora Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae and Halictidae)
Author
Alvarez, Leopoldo J.
Author
Lucia, Mariano
Author
Ramello, Pablo J.
Author
Abrahamovich, Alberto H.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3889
3
447
450
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.7
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1175-5326
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Paratrigona glabella
Camargo & Moure, 1994
(
Figs. 1–4
)
Description.
Body length
4.5 mm
, head length
1.56 mm
, head width
1.63 mm
, mesosoma width (intertegular distance)
1.16 mm
, metasoma width (measured across T2)
1.67 mm
. Color predominantly black, with yellow maculations on head and mesosoma (
Figs. 1–3
), integument dull, finely and densely punctate.
Head
mixed (
Fig. 1
).
Right side
: worker-like, mandible quadridentate, antenna normally developed with ten flagellomeres and scape long and slender (
0.64 mm
in length,
0.1 mm
in width), alveolocular distance
0.24 mm
, distance between lateral and median ocellus
0.1 mm
, eye (in frontal view) 5.1 times longer than broad.
Left side
: male-like, mandible edentate longer than males, antenna with eleven flagellomeres and scape thicker and shorter than workers (
0.5 mm
in length,
0.12 mm
in width), alveolocular distance
0.2 mm
, distance between lateral and median ocellus
0.08 mm
, eye (in frontal view) 3.5 times longer than broad.
Mesosoma
mixed (
Fig. 3
).
Right side
: with worker features, including all right legs.
Hind
tibia 2.77 times longer than broad, corbicula normally developed, hind basitarsus about twice as long as broad with strongly projecting on posterodistal margin (
Fig. 4
). Yellow spots are intensely colored.
Left side
: with male features, including all left legs.
Hind
tibia 3 times longer than broad, and without corbicular depression; hind basistarsus 2.8 times longer than broad without projection on posterodistal margin (
Fig. 2
). Yellow spots more discolored and slender than in the worker.
Metasoma
symmetric, with features of workers. Genital structure developed as a normal reduced sting.
Material examined
:
Argentina
, Salta, Finca del Rey,
31–XI–1952
, Coll. A. Ogloblin.