Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini)
Author
Gibbs, Jason
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Zootaxa
2011
2011-10-28
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Lasioglossum
(
Dialictus
)
illinoense
(Robertson)
Halictus illinoensis
Robertson, 1892
: 271
. Ƥ.
Lectotype
.
Ƥ
USA
, Illinois, Macoupin Co., Carlinville,
12.viii.1891
, (C. Robertson); [INHS: 11933] by W. E. LaBerge (in
Webb 1980
). Examined.
Halictus illinoisensis
Smith, 1910
: 688
. (Emend.)
Taxonomy.
Robertson, 1902b
:
Chloralictus Illinoensis
, p. 249 (key);
Michener, 1951
:
Lasioglossum
(
Chloralictus
)
illinoense
, p. 1114 (catalogue);
Mitchell, 1960
:
Dialictus illinoensis
Ƥ3, p. 399 (redescription, key);
Krombein, 1967
:
Lasioglossum
(
Dialictus
)
illinoense
, p. 464 (catalogue);
Hurd, 1979
:
Dialictus illinoensis
, p. 1966 (catalogue);
Moure & Hurd, 1987
:
Dialictus illinoensis
, p. 105 (catalogue);
Gibbs, 2010b
:
Lasioglossum
(
Dialictus
)
illinoense
Ƥ3, p. 149 (redescription, key).
Diagnosis.
Female
L
.
illinoense
can be distinguished from all other North American
Dialictus
by protrochanter conically produced (
Fig. 8
A). They are further recognisable by the combination of head wide (length/width ratio = 0.90– 0.92); clypeus with wide distal margin; propodeum with very strong carina delimiting lower margin of dorsolateral slope; and mesoscutal punctures fine, sparse between parapsidal lines, denser laterad of parapsidal line.
Male
L
.
illinoense
can be recognised by the following diagnostic combination: clypeus with distal margin yellow; head wide (length/width ratio = 0.94–0.95); mesoscutum with posterior half polished due to lack of microsculpture, punctures fine, sparse between parapsidal lines (i=1–3d); mesepisternum rugulose; metasomal terga with apical halves impunctate except along premarginal line; and metasomal sterna with relatively sparse plumose hairs.
Range.
Nova
Scotia
, south to
Georgia
, Mississippi, west to Kansas.
USA
: GA,
IL
, IN, KS, KY, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV.
DNA Barcode.
Available. Multiple sequences.
Comments.
Common. See
Gibbs (2010b)
.