Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) hirsutissima Maidl 1912: 315

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 : 5-6

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scientific name	Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) hirsutissima Maidl 1912: 315
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Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) hirsutissima Maidl 1912: 315 View in CoL

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Known distribution. Bolivia, Brazil (Goiás, Guanabara, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraná, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, São Paulo), Paraguay ( Hurd 1978: 62). Type locality: “ Paraguay (San Luis)” ( Maidl 1912: 315).

Material examined. Brazil: Pará: Cachimbo , VI.1962, M. Alvarenga and F. M. Oliveira (1 ♀) ; Palmeiras , 8.X.1959, P. D. Hurd (1 ♂) ; Bahia: Nilo Peçanha , X.1955, A. A. Sousa (1 ♀) ; Rondônia: Vilhena , XI.1960, M. Alvarenga leg. (1 ♀) .

Notes. Females of this species can be readily recognized by the dense black pubescence over much of the mesonotal disc and the metasomal tergites, dark wings with violet iridescence, and overall body size which is larger (20.5 to 23.0 mm in overall body length in the material examined) than the similar X. (N.) carbonaria (which has overall body length of 17.0 to 18.6 mm).

References

Hurd, P. D., Jr. 1978. An annotated catalog of the carpenter bees (Genus Xylocopa Latreille) of the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Smithsonian Institution Press; Washington, DC. 106 p.

Maidl, F. 1912. Die Xylocopen (Holzbienen) des Wiener Hofmuseums: ein Beitrag zu einer Monographie dieser Gattung. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien 26 (3 - 4): 249 - 330.

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.