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
)
metallica
Smith 1874: 292
Fig. 17
Known distribution.
Brazil (Amazonas, Pará), Colombia, Suriname, Peru.
Type
locality: “Para” (
Smith 1874: 292
).
Material examined.
Brazil
:
Amazonas
: Rio Uaupés, 1906, H. Schmidt (
1 ♀
)
.
Notes.
Females of this species are easily recognized by the presence of orange pubescence on metasomal tergites 3-6, combined with the presence of black pubescence on metasomal tergites 1–2.