Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini)
Author
Gibbs, Jason
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Zootaxa
2011
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Lasioglossum
(
Dialictus
)
subversans
(Mitchell)
Dialictus subversans
Mitchell, 1960
: 419
. Ƥ.
Holotype
.
Ƥ
USA
, Michigan, Otsego Co.,
26.iv.1944
(R.R. Dreisbach); [
NCSU
]. Examined.
Dialictus perpunctatulus
Knerer and Atwood, 1966a
: 884
. Ƥ 3.
Holotype
. Ƥ
CANADA
, Ontario, Arctic Watershed, Timiskaming District,
21.vi.1961
on
Fragaria
, (G. Knerer)
; [
ROM
:
83912]. Examined.
Taxonomy.
Krombein, 1967
:
Lasioglossum
(
Dialictus
)
subversans
, p. 466 (catalogue);
Dialictus perpunctatulus
, p. 1970,
D
.
subversans
, p. 1972 (catalogue);
Moure & Hurd, 1987
:
Dialictus perpunctatulus
, p. 121,
D
.
subversans
, p. 132 (catalogue);
Gibbs, 2010b
:
Lasioglossum
(
Dialictus
)
subversans
Ƥ3, p. 309 (redescription, key, synonymy).
Diagnosis.
Female
L
.
subversans
can be recognised by the following diagnostic combination: head wide (length/ width ratio = 0.94–0.97); supraclypeal area strongly brassy; mesoscutum imbricate, punctures moderately dense between parapsidal lines (i=1–1.5d); mesepisternal punctures distinct but irregular; metapostnotum with weak longitudinal rugae, not reaching rounded posterior margin; and metasomal terga brown, with sparse tomentum, apical punctation very obscure. They are most similar to
L
.
foveolatum
, which has a strongly convex supraclypeal area and wide parapsidal lines.
Male
L
.
subversans
can be distinguished from all other eastern
USA
L.
(
Dialictus
) by the very long and dense scopalike hairs on S2–S3 and apicolateral portions of S4–S5 (
Fig. 35
A).
Range.
Nova
Scotia
west to British
Columbia
.
USA
: ME, MI.
CANADA
: AB, BC, NB, NS, ON, PE, PQ, SK.
DNA Barcode.
Available. Multiple sequences.
Comments.
Rare.
Lasioglossum subversans
seems to have a boreal distribution.