Sphecodes tantalus Nurse, 1903

Astafurova, Yulia & Proshchalykin, Maxim, 2020, New and little-known bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) from the Himalayas, European Journal of Taxonomy 729, pp. 74-120 : 110-112

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.729.1195

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2FA17849-A224-4B0B-8894-EDB6ECBE029B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5705473

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA8783-FFE8-FFB4-B75E-FD99FAFFFCE5

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Plazi

scientific name

Sphecodes tantalus Nurse, 1903
status

 

Sphecodes tantalus Nurse, 1903 View in CoL

Figs 19 View Fig , 20 View Fig A–D

Sphecodes tantalus Nurse, 1903: 539 View in CoL , ♀.

Sphecodes tantalus View in CoL – Dar et al. 2018: 531. — Dar & Wani 2018: 1432.

Diagnosis

The female of this species is similar to that of S. perplexus (refer to Diagnosis of S. perplexus above).

Material examined

Syntypes INDIA • 1 ♀; “(syntype), <red circle>”, “ Kashmir [Jammu and Kashmir] 5–6000 ft. 5.01”, “ Col. C. G. Nurse Collection, 1920-72”, “ Sphecodes tantanus Nurse ”, “♀, Type”, “B.M. TYPE HYM. 17.a.585”; NHMUK 013380356 About NHMUK 1 ♀; “ Kashmir 5–6000 ft. 5.01”; ZMHB .

Descriptive notes

Wings hyaline, without brownish darkening; hind wing with the angle between basal (M) and cubital (Cu) veins ca 80°, costal margin with six hamuli.

Female

Total body length 8 mm ( Fig. 19 View Fig ). Head strongly transverse, ca 1.3 times as wide as long ( Fig. 20A View Fig ); vertex weakly elevated as seen in frontal view (distance from top of head to upper margin of lateral ocellus at most a lateral ocellar diameter), but wide as seen in dorsal view (approximately three ocellar diameters); F1 and F2 strongly transverse, 0.6–0.7 times as long as wide, F3 almost square; labrum semi-oval, 0.6 times as long as wide; clypeus and ocello-ocular area with dense punctures separated by at most a half puncture diameter; paraocular and supracypeal areas with relatively dense, but thin plumose pubescence, not obscuring integument. Mesoscutum with sparse punctures (20–25μ m) separated by 2–5 puncture diameters ( Fig. 20C View Fig ); hypoepimeral area reticulate; metafemur strongly enlarged in proximal half, maximum width 0.4 times its length; legs red. Metasomal T1 impunctate, T2–T4 with a few fine setal pores, marginal zones impunctate; pygidial plate dull, 0.8 times as wide as metabasitarsus; T1–T5 red ( Fig. 20B View Fig ).

Male

Unknown.

Distribution

Himalayas: India (Jammu and Kashmir); India (Rajasthan according to Ascher & Pickering 2020: map).

ZMHB

Germany, Berlin, Museum fuer Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitaet

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Sphecodes

Loc

Sphecodes tantalus Nurse, 1903

Astafurova, Yulia & Proshchalykin, Maxim 2020
2020
Loc

Sphecodes tantalus

Dar S. A. & Malik T. - U. - H. & Dar S. H. & Nissar M. & Wani R. A. & Kandoo A. A. & Rather B. A. 2018: 531
Dar S. A. & Wani A. R. 2018: 1432
2018
Loc

Sphecodes tantalus

Nurse C. G. 1903: 539
1903
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