Hypotrigona ruspolii (Magretti, 1898)

Pauly, Alain & Hora, Zewdu Ararso, 1787, Apini and Meliponini from Ethiopia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae: Apinae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 16, pp. 1-35 : 13-17

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scientific name

Hypotrigona ruspolii (Magretti, 1898)
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Hypotrigona ruspolii (Magretti, 1898) View in CoL

(Figs 9-12, 13b, 14)

Trigona ruspolii MAGRETTI, 1898a: 27–28 View in CoL . Type locality: “Una bella serie di individui raccolti la maggior parte lungo il Daua e l’Uebi, qualcuno a Dolo” (MCSN). Worker lectotype: Ethiopia, Daua, leg. E. Ruspoli (MCSNG), designated here (examined). Two worker paratypes, "Daua", 1892, leg. E. Ruspoli (MNHUB), examined by Eardley 2005.

TYPE LOCALITY. “Daua” is the Dawa river in SE Ethiopia ; Dolo (4°11’N 42°03’E) is a village at the junction of the Web, the Ganale and the Daua; “El Uebi” is also a river in SE Ethiopia GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION. Angola, Cameroon, Congo, East Africa, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria,

Sao Thomé, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe ( EARDLEY, 2005).

OLD MATERIAL. ETHIOPIA. Daua , leg. E. Ruspoli, 1892-93, 6D paratypes ( MCSNG). – Ueb, leg. E. Ruspoli, 1892-93, 3D paratypes, 2♂ paratype; var a, 3D paratype, var b, 1D paratype, var c, 1D paratype ( MCSNG). – Gambella, II.1948, 1D, leg. K.M. Guichard ( BMNH) ( EARDLEY, 2005) (not examined) .

NEW MATERIAL.

ETHIOPIA. SOUTHERN. Weyito , 5°20’N 37°03’E, 22.IX.2012, on sweat, 9D, leg. A. Pauly ( RBINS, HBRC) GoogleMaps .

a - dorsal habitus b - scutum

c - head d - hind tibia

Fig. 9. Hypotrigona ruspolii , worker lectotype (a,b) and paratype (c,d) from Daua ( MCSNG).

a - var a b - var b

d - white scutellum (var c)

Fig. 10. Hypotrigona ruspolii , varieties from El Uebi following MAGRETTI, 1898. Specimens with white scutellum are probably not chitinized and collected from nests.

a - dorsal habitus b - scutum and scutellum

Fig. 11. Hypotrigona ruspolii , specimen from Weyito.

c - head d - metasoma with white margins Fig. 11 (continued). Hypotrigona ruspolii , specimen from Weyito.

a - dorsal habitus b - lateral habitus

c - head and mesosoma d - genitalia

Fig. 12. Hypotrigona ruspolii , male paratype from El Uebi.

a- Hypotrigona gribodoi b - Hypotrigona ruspolii Fig. 13. Distribution maps of Hypotrigona in Ethiopia.

RBINS

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Hypotrigona

Loc

Hypotrigona ruspolii (Magretti, 1898)

Pauly, Alain & Hora, Zewdu Ararso 1787
1787
Loc

Trigona ruspolii

MAGRETTI P. 1898: 28
1898
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