Euglossa truncata Rebêlo & Moure, 1996

Nemésio, André, 2012, Species of Euglossa Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossina) belonging to the purpurea species group occurring in eastern Brazil, with description of Euglossa monnei sp. n., Zootaxa 3151, pp. 35-52 : 42

Euglossa truncata Rebêlo & Moure, 1996

This species, very common in the drier portions of the Atlantic Forest ( Fig. 5 ), was only represented in the “Hileia Baiana” by one specimen (collected at RPPN Duas Barras, at the border between Minas Gerais and Bahia), apparently the easternmost record of this species. The records of this species from Pernambuco, Alagoas and Bahia (see Nemésio 2009: 159) were later questioned by Nemésio (2010b, 2011a), who argued that these specimens were misidentified (belonging, in fact, to E. amazonica ). Three other specimens were collected at REBIO Mata Escura, some 100 km westwards from RPPN Duas Barras, outside the limits of “Hileia Baiana”. These two records are the northernmost records for this species in eastern Brazil. It goes south to the state of Paraná, in Brazil, and enters the region of Misiones, in Argentina (specimens deposited at UFMG and at the American Museum of Natural History).

As shown in previous studies ( Rebêlo & Garófalo 1997, Nemésio 2008), E. truncata is an “eugenol bee”. Three of the four specimens collected in this study were attracted to eugenol; the other one was attracted to skatole.

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FIGURE 5. Map showing the known geographic distribution (black circles) of Euglossa truncata Rebêlo & Moure, 1996 in the Neotropics.