Xylocopa (Schonnherria) dimidiata Latreille 1809: 95

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 : 8

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scientific name	Xylocopa (Schonnherria) dimidiata Latreille 1809: 95
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Known distribution. Argentina, Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, São Paulo), Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru ( Hurd 1978: 17). Type locality: not stated in original description ( Latreille 1809: 95).

Notes. This species was recorded by Hurd (1978) from the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Pará but there are no specimens from either state in USNM. The characters in the key are taken from specimens collected at localities from Bolivia and Peru outside the Amazon River basin. The combination of metallic blue dorsal coloration and black pubescence on the metasoma appears to be diagnostic for the female of this species, at least among the Amazon Basin species of subgenus Schonnherria .

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.

Latreille, P. A. 1809. Insectes de l'Amerique equinoxiale, recueillis pendant le voyage de MM. de Humboldt et Bonpland, et decrits par M. Latreille, seconde partie. p. 9 - 138. In: A. de Humboldt and A. Bonpland (eds.). Recueil d'observations de zoologie et d'anatomie comparee faites dans l'Ocean Atlantique, dans l'interieur du nouveau continent et dans la mer du Sud pendant les annees 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 et 1803, deuxieme volume. J. Smith; Paris. 352 p.