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 2018-05-25 631 1 15 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.3699701 e23922d1-6f43-4280-8ac6-131767dc4464 1942-1354 3699701 8EB081BE-6413-4CE7-861C-97B4746E075A Xylocopa ( Neoxylocopa ) frontalis ( Olivier 1789: 64 ) Fig. 7 Known distribution. Argentina , Belize , Bolivia , Brazil ( Acre , Alagoas , Amapá , Amazonas, Bahia , Ceará , Espírito Santo , Goiás , Guanabara, Maranhão , Mato Grosso , Minas Gerais , Pará, Paraíba , Paraná , Rio de Janeiro , Rio Branco, Rio Grande do Norte , Rio Grande do Sul , Rondônia , Santa Catarina , São Paulo ), Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , El Salvador , French Guiana , Guatemala , Guyana , Honduras , México ( Chiapas , Veracruz ), Nicaragua , Panamá , Paraguay , Peru , Suriname , Trinidad , Uruguay , Venezuela ( Hurd 1978: 79-80 ). Type locality: “Cayenne” ( Olivier 1789: 64 ). Material examined. Brazil : Pará : Belém ( 1 male ) , Óbidos ( 1 ♀ , 1 ♂ ) , Pará ( 7 ♀ , 1 ♂ ) ; Rondônia : Porto Velho ( 1 ♀ ), Porto Velho-Abunã Road km 65 ( 1 ♀ ). Peru : Huánuco : Tingo María ( 1 ♀ ). Venezuela : Ama- zonas, Cerro de la Neblina ( 1 ♀ ) . Notes. Females of this species can be readily recognized by the unique transverse carina on the frons which has the median ocellus embedded in the center of the transverse carina. This species is an important pollinator of many tropical plant species ( Hurd 1978 ).