Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) orthogonaspis Moure 2003: 71–73

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 : 6

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) orthogonaspis Moure 2003: 71–73

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Known distribution. Brazil (Amazonas, Pará), Colombia ( Moure 2003: 71). Type locality: “Manaus, AM-BRASIL” ( Moure 2003: 72).

Material examined. Brazil: Amazonas: Manaus, VIII.1959 (5 ♀) , IX.1959 (2 ♀) , X.1959, C. Elias (14 ♀) , XI.1959, C. Elias (4 ♀) ; Pará: Santarém, VIII.1919, E. M. Klages (1 ♀) , VI.1955, M. Silva (8 ♀) , IX.1955, M. Alvarenga (1 ♀) , X.1955, M. Silva (25 ♀) , Santarém, Ulumari, 15.IX.1955, M . O. Silva (3 ♀) .

Notes. Specimens of this species in USNM were tentatively identified by Paul D. Hurd as X. (N.) brasilianorum (Linnaeus) , a similarly-colored species which is otherwise known from localities in southern Brazil which are outside the Amazon basin ( Hurd 1978; Moure 2003). The brief discussion and reports of X. (N.) submordax Cockerell from the Amazon basin by Moure and Camargo (1988) refer instead to this species ( Moure 2003). The true X. (N.) submordax was placed in synonymy with X. (N.) transitoria Pérez by Moure (2003); specimens of this latter species in USNM all have greenish-blue or bluish-violet wing iridescence and are from localities in northern South America and the Caribbean which are located outside 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.