Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia ) pygmaea ( Schrottky, 1902 )

Aguiar, Antonio J. C. & Melo, Gabriel A. R., 2005, Notes on the type species of the subgenera Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) and P. (Amphipedia) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini), Zootaxa 1084, pp. 31-42 : 38

Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) pygmaea ( Schrottky, 1902)

Tetrapaedia [sic] pygmaea Schrottky, 1902: 544 . Lectotype male, here designated, Brasil: São Paulo, Jundiaí ( MZSP).

Tetrapedia pigmaea [sic] Schrottky ( 1902): 541.

Tetrapedia pygmaea ; Schrottky ( 1913): 260.

Paratetrapedia pygmaea ; Moure ( 1942): 301. Roig­Alsina ( 1997): 4. Sazima and Sazima ( 1989): 108.

Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) pygmaea ; Michener and Moure ( 1957): 415, figs. 16–18 (drawings of S 7 –S 8, and genitalia). Pedro ( 1994): 252. Pedro and Camargo ( 1999): 202. Aguiar et al. ( 2004): 82.

P. (Lophopedia) cf. pygmaea ; Pedro ( 1996): 251.

Comments

Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) pygmaea belongs to a group of species possessing a carinate omaulus. The species in this group are difficult to distinguish from each other in the females, which present very similar patterns of sculpture and pubescence. A more thorough revision of this group is necessary to better diagnose its species and details on how to separate this species from others cannot be given at this time.