Neotropical Meliponini: Paratrigonoides mayri, new genus and species from western Colombia (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae) and phylogeny of related genera
Author
Camargo, João M. F.
Author
Roubik, David W.
text
Zootaxa
2005
1081
33
45
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.170390
a08a0b4f-a29c-4f61-8c03-ca591dab4dd5
11755326
170390
Paratrigonoides
,
gen. nov.
Type
species
;
Paratrigonoides mayri
sp. n.
Diagnosis
.
Worker
.
a—
Body length between 4.5 and
4.7 mm
.
b—
integument mattemicroreticulate on head and thorax; metapostnotum alveolate.
c—
Body dark ferrugineous except vestiture and markings described below; mesoscutum black; wing membrane hyaline.
d—
Yellow markings pronounced on head, thorax and base of all tibiae. On the head, yellow markings on paraocular areas, clypeus, supraclypeal area and frons;
frons with oblong mark on each side of median line and smaller mark anterior to lateral ocellus
(
Fig. 1
). On the thorax, yellow markings as follows: a transverse stripe on pronotum, entire pronotal lobe, one stripe each side of mesoscutum, axilla and distal margin of scutellum.
e—
Vestiture: erect hairs on body uniformly palewhitish, slightly more yellowish on tarsi; in addition, a fine silvery gray micropilosity, branched, decumbent, covering face and mesoscutum; erect hairs lacking on lower half of face;
row of robust setae, branched at apices, along preoccipital lamella, on upper part of occiput
(
Fig. 2
); metapostnotum glabrous; setae on abdominal sterna branched;
f—
Head ca. 1.09 x wider than long, slightly wider than thorax; maximum interorbital distance slightly greater than length of eye; inner orbit of eye somewhat convergent below; superior alveolar tangent slightly below middle of face; vertex rounded, not forming postocellar carina; malar space very short, approximately ¼ diameter of third flagellomere;
preoccipital ridge having fine lamella on the upper part, curving forward
(
Fig. 2
); side rounded; gena, seen from side, narrower than compound eye.
g—
Clypeus ca. 1.96 x wider than long, convex; epistomal suture, between subantennal sutures a widely open V;