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Viraktamath and Rojeet
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(
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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)
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBD9844FF50FD25FEAEC18A" bold="true" box="[151,274,726,752]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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is a member of the
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species group with male and female bees measuring a mean of 5.08 and
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in body length and 4.39 and
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in forewing length, respectively. The male bees are distinct in having the apical margin of metasomal sternum 4 produced into a small lobe and sinuate laterally (
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); the apicosubmedian lobes of sternum 5 widely separated (
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) (
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); apicomedian lobe long (
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) and acutely pointed in the sternum 6; apodemal lobes moderately separated from each other (
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) and longer penis valve (
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) and gonostylus (
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) (
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).
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Female bees are smaller (
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body length); mesoscutum bordered with short, yellow, plumose, scale-like hairs; first metasomal tergum with the distinct light brown, narrow semi-circular band and malar space length very short (
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBD9844FF00FBE9FEEDC74E" bold="true" box="[199,337,1050,1076]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Description</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBD9844FF00FBCCFEB3C723" bold="true" box="[199,271,1087,1113]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Males</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBD9844FF00FB91FEF3C706" bold="true" box="[199,335,1122,1148]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Coloration.</emphasis>
Head, mesosoma, metasoma black (
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); labrum, scape dark reddish-brown except the basal bulb light reddish-brown; pedicel, flagellomeres dark reddish-brown on both upper and lower side; ocelli transparent, pale to dark reddish-brown, raised above the level of vertex integument; compound eyes reddish-brown (
<figureCitation id="135E2A13FFBD9844FAE0FB58FA31C7BF" box="[1319,1421,1195,1221]" captionStart="FIGURE 10" captionStartId="20.[151,250,1915,1939]" captionTargetBox="[153,1436,184,1880]" captionTargetId="figure-34@20.[151,1436,181,1891]" captionTargetPageId="20" captionText="FIGURE 10. Lepidotrigona amruthae n. sp. Male holotype: a. lateral habitus, b. head, mesosoma and basal part of metasoma dorsal view, c. head frontal view" figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7003162" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7003162/files/figure.png" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Fig. 10 c</figureCitation>
); Mesoscutum with three, very narrow, shiny longitudinal stripes extending up to the middle of mesoscutum; tegulae dark reddish-brown (
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); wings with brownish tinge; pterostigma, veins light brown. Legs reddish-brown except for the terminal four tarsal segments ochraceous. Metasomal tergum 1 pale with a dark brown, broad semi-circular band; remaining terga black except the terminal tergum yellowish-brown; sterna pale with dark brown bands of various size and shape across each tergum giving a banded appearance (
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).
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBD9844FF00FA71FE9AC6E6" bold="true" box="[199,294,1410,1436]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Pilosity.</emphasis>
Entire face, clypeus clothed with plumose white hairs (
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); vertex, upper region of occiput with long pale hairs; lower occipital area with a patch of white fine hairs; genal, post-genal margins fringed with pale long hairs (
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). Mesoscutum not bordered with scale-like hairs, but margins fringed with fine, short pale-yellow hairs; mesoscutellum fringed with long pale-yellow hairs (
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). Pronotal lobe, mesepisternum, metepisternum, anterolateral areas of propodeum with white thick plumose hairs (
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). Anterior and posterior margins, upper surface of the hind tibia with short white hairs. Metasomal terga with white fine hairs, density increasing towards terminal segments; sterna with fine, dense white hairs with higher density towards medial and terminal ends.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBD9844FF00F98CFECAC5E3" bold="true" box="[199,374,1663,1689]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Morphometry.</emphasis>
Males measure 5.08, 1.78 and
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in body length, head width and head length, respectively (
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); eye
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long,
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wide; upper interocular distance 2.76× and 5.25× greater than interocellar (
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) and ocellocular distance (
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), respectively; median ocellus 4.75× larger than the malar space length (
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); scape
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long,
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wide; forewing
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long,
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wide; wing diagonal length
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; hind tibia 2.34× longer than the hind basitarsus (
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) while 1.41× wider than hind basitarsus (
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).
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The ratio of head length to width 0.67; eye length to upper interocular distance 1.08; interocellar to ocellocular distance 1.90; forewing length to width 3.01; hind tibial length to forewing diagonal length 1.14; hind basitarsus width to hind tibial width 0.73 (
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).
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBD9844FF00F86CFDFBC4C2" bold="true" box="[199,583,1950,1977]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Metasomal sterna and genitalia.</emphasis>
The following description is based on the dissection of
<specimenCount id="9D63FD1FFFBD9844FB7CF86CFA8FC4C3" box="[1211,1331,1951,1977]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" type="male">five males</specimenCount>
. Sternum 4 is less sclerotized with gradulus not touching the antecosta; apical margin distinctly produced into a small, broad lobe medially; sinuate on both lateral sides (
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). Gradulus of sternum 5 touches antecosta for short distance medially; apicosubmedian lobes slender,
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long, pointed terminating into 2 to 4 short spines; both lobes separated by
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broad inverted U-shaped concavity; each apicolateral lobe as long as wide (
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) with rounded apex (
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). Antecosta of sternum 6 weakly convex medially; the apicomedial lobe
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long, acutely pointed at apex. Apodemal lobes moderately separated from each other (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA3696FFBA9843FF00FEB8FC82C11B" blockId="12.[151,1437,150,1725]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
Genitalia asymmetrical except gonostyli, well sclerotized (
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). The left gonocoxa larger,
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long,
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wide while the right gonocoxa smaller measuring 0.23 and
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in length and width, respectively. Penis valve
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long with a basal width of
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at the base; terminal half of each penis valve curved differently, often in the same direction, overlapping with each other, terminating in slender pointed apices (
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). Gonostylus arising laterally at the base of each gonocoxa, tubular, sclerotized only at basal 1/4
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long with a width of 0.03, 0.06 and
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at the base, middle and terminal parts, respectively; sinuate at about mid-region, terminal half of each gonostylus expanded and medial and lateral surfaces lined with series of long and short setae, density increasing towards apex (
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).
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FF00FD98FE95C1FF" bold="true" box="[199,297,619,645]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Females</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA3696FFBA9843FF00FD7DFEA2C0DF" blockId="12.[151,1437,150,1725]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FF00FD7DFEF3C1D2" bold="true" box="[199,335,654,680]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Coloration.</emphasis>
Head, mesosoma black (
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); scape dark reddish-black except for the basal bulb lighter; pedicel, flagellar segments dark reddish-brown; ocelli transparent pale in colour; compound eyes dark reddishbrown to black (
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). Legs dark reddish-brown; tegulae black; wings blackish brown; pterostigma, veins dark brown. Mesoscutum with three very narrow, shiny longitudinal stripes arising from the anteromedial margin, extending up to the middle of mesoscutum. Metasomal tergum 1 pale with a narrow, light brown semi-circular band; remaining terga with various shades of brown with intersegmental lines dark brown thus appearing banded (
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); Some bees (30%) have terga black except the terminal segments light brown to ochraceous; sterna ochraceous.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA3696FFBA9843FF00FC5DFC87C707" blockId="12.[151,1437,150,1725]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FF00FC5DFE9AC0B2" bold="true" box="[199,294,942,968]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Pilosity.</emphasis>
Clypeus, entire face clothed with dense, white plumose hairs (
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); vertex, upper occiput with grey erect hairs, the lower part of occiput with fine white hairs (
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). Mesoscutum surrounded by yellow scale-like hairs; mesoscutellar margin fringed with ochraceous hairs (
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); pronotal lobe, mesepisternum, metepisternum, anterolateral areas of propodeum clothed with plumose yellowish hairs
<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FC00FBE9FC6CC74E" bold="true" box="[967,976,1050,1076]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">(</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FBF1FBE9FBF5C74E" bold="true" box="[1078,1097,1050,1076]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">);</emphasis>
anterior, posterior margins of the hind tibia with ochraceous mixed with dark brown setae. Metasomal terga and sterna with fine white hairs, the density increasing progressively towards terminal segments.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA3696FFBA9843FF00FB74FC7EC64B" blockId="12.[151,1437,150,1725]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FF00FB74FECAC7DB" bold="true" box="[199,374,1159,1185]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Morphometry.</emphasis>
Females measure a mean of
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in length and
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in head width; head length
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; eye 2.95× longer than its width (
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); upper interocular distance 3.34× and 4.18× greater than interocellar (
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) and ocellocular distance (
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), respectively; median ocellar diameter
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; malar space length
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; scape 6.50× longer than its width (
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); forewing
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long,
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wide; wing diagonal length
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; hind tibia 2.16× longer than hind basitarsus (
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).
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<paragraph id="8BDA3696FFBA9843FF00FAC8FD7AC6E7" blockId="12.[151,1437,150,1725]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
The ratio of head length to width 0.71; interocellar to ocellocular distance 1.25; scape length to eye length 0.58; forewing length to width 2.89; hind tibial length to head width 0.70; hind tibial length to forewing diagonal 1.18; hind basitarsus to hind tibial width 0.75 (
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).
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FF00FA54FEB9C6BB" bold="true" box="[199,261,1447,1473]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Nest:</emphasis>
A colony was found nesting in a tree. The entrance tube was soft,
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long with a funnel-like opening of 2.00 cm diameter. The entrance tube was protruding from the nest, dark brown at the base and lighter towards the anterior portion
<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FE8AFA1DFEEAC572" bold="true" box="[333,342,1518,1544]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">(</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FE75FA1DFE7EC572" bold="true" box="[434,450,1518,1544]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">).</emphasis>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FF00F9E1FE0CC556" bold="true" box="[199,432,1554,1580]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Material examined.</emphasis>
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:
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(
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,
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, Altitude
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a.s.l.
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, leg.
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. deposited at
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.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C37F651DFFBA9843FF00F98CFB35C5C7" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="B911EA84FFBA9843FF00F98CFEF2C5E3" bold="true" box="[199,334,1663,1689]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species name is derived based on the Sanskrit word “Amrutha” meaning “nectar of immortality”. The name refers to the high medicinal value of the honey produced by stingless bees.
</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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