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 ) carbonaria Smith 1854: 358 Fig. 4 Known Distribution. Brazil (Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte; Hurd 1978: 53 ). Type Locality: “Brazil (Tapajos)” ( Smith 1854: 358 ). Material examined. Brazil : Pará , Cachimbo, VI .1955 , F. M. Oliviera ( 1 ♀ ) , X.1955 , M. Alvarenga ( 1 ♀ ) , VI .1962 , M. Alvarenga and F. M. Oliveira ( 64 ♀ ) , Santarém, VII.1955 , M. Silva ( 1 ♀ ) , IX.1955 , M. Alvarenga ( 5 ♀ ) , X.1955 , M. Silva ( 5 ♀ ) , M. Alvarenga ( 1 ♀ ) , XI.1955 , M. Silva ( 16 ♀ ) , X.1955 , M. Alvarenga ( 1 ♀ ) , 10.XII.1955 , M. Silva ( 5 ♀ ) , V .1960 ( 2 ♀ ) . Notes. The small body size, dense black pubescence on much of the mesonotum and metasomal tergites, and black wings with feeble violet iridescence are diagnostic for females, at least among the species of subgenus Neoxylocopa in the Amazon basin.