Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) carbonaria Smith 1854: 358

Mawdsley, Jonathan R., 2018, New records and diagnostic notes on large carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: genus Xylocopa Latreille), from the Amazon River basin of South America, Insecta Mundi 631, pp. 1-15 : 4

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.

Figures

Figures 1–13. Dorsal habitus photographs of pinned, preserved specimens of females of Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) species from the Amazon River basin, from the USNM collection. 1) X. (N.) aeneipennis. 2) X. (N.) amazonica. 3) X. (N.) aurulenta. 4) X. (N.) carbonaria. 5) X. (N.) cearensis. 6) X. (N.) fimbriata. 7) X. (N.) frontalis. 8) X. (N.) grisescens. 9) X. (N.) hirsutissima. 10) X. (N.) orthogonaspis. 11) X. (N.) similis. 12) X. (N.) suspecta. 13) X. (N.) tegulata.