Osirinus rutilans (Friese)

Melo, Gabriel A. R. & Zanella, Fernando C. V., 2003, The species of the parasitic bee genus Osirinus (Hymenoptera, Apidae), Journal of Natural History 37 (24), pp. 2919-2929 : 2926

Osirinus rutilans (Friese)

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Osiris rutilans Friese, 1930: 123 . Holotype female, Brazil: Bahia (ZMHB). Shanks (1986): 3, 5, 6, 8, 15, 44–45 (in part).

Osirinus rutilans, Roig-Alsina (1989) : 17, 18, 20 (in part).

Comments

This species is known only from the female type specimen. We examined one of the two additional specimens that Shanks attributed with reservation to rutilans and it corresponds to Almeida’s santiagoi . The other specimen from Jataí (Goiás, Brazil) probably also belongs to santiagoi . Shanks had already mentioned that those two specimens could represent a new species.

It is not possible to know whether rutilans came from an area covered by rain forest, cerrado or caatinga, since the original label associated with the type gives only Bahia as locality data. This species is very similar to parvicollis (see ‘Comments’ for that species).

Material examined

Brazil, Bahia: Holotype female, ‘ Bahia. Gom. ’, ‘ Rutila N. ’, ‘654’ (plus three additional labels).

Figures

FIGS 6–17. (6–10) Osirinus ruficrus, sp. n.: male, lateral (6), dorsal (7) and ventral view of genitalia (8); ventral view of sterna VII (9) and VIII (10). (11–15) Osirinus santiagoi: male, lateral (11), dorsal (12) and ventral view of genitalia (13); ventral view of sterna VII (14) and VIII (15). (16) Osirinus parvicollis: female, frontal view of head. (17) Osirinus rutilans: female, frontal view of head.