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 ) suspecta Moure and Camargo 1988: 209–214 Fig. 12 Known distribution. Bolivia , Brazil ( Bahia , Espírito Santo , Mato Grosso , Minas Gerais , Pará, Paraíba , Pernambuco , Rio Grande do Sul , Rio de Janeiro , São Paulo ; Moure and Camargo 1988: 211–214 ; Moure 2012 ). Type locality: “Ribeirão Preto SP” ( Moure and Camargo 1988: 211 ). Material examined. Brazil : Pará : Conceição do Araguaia , VII.1959 , M. Alvarenga ( 1 ♀ ) , Santarém , IX.1955 , M. Alvarenga ( 1 ♀ ) ; Rondônia : Abunã , XI.1962 , W. Bokerman ( 1 ♀ ) . Notes. According to Moure and Camargo (1988) , this is a very common species in southeastern Brazil and the female of this species can be easily separated from females of most of the sympatric species of subgenus Neoxylocopa by its brilliant green wing iridescence. In describing this species, Moure and Camargo did not compare it to X . ( N .) amazonica , a similar species whose distribution overlaps in part with that of X . ( N .) suspecta . In the material that I examined, the wing iridescence of females of X . ( N .) amazonica is much less brilliant, and is distinctly bluish-green, particularly towards the base of the wing. The female of X . ( N .) suspecta also has much larger and denser punctures on the tergites of the metasoma. These two species belong to a well-defined group of large-bodied species of subgenus Neoxylocopa with greenish iridescence on the wings. Another valid species in this group is X . ( N .) nasica Pérez, which has greenish-golden wing iridescence and is known from northern Colombia , Panamá , and Costa Rica ( Hurd 1978 ; Mawdsley 2017 ).