Nomada furva (Panzer, 1798)

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Nomada furva (Panzer, 1798)

Nomada furva Common names: Nomade funeste (French), Schwärzliche Wespenbiene (German)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : catalogNumber: MNHNL39915 ; recordedBy: Fernand Feitz ; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Nomada furva (Panzer, 1798); order: Hymenoptera ; family: Apidae ; genus: Nomada ; specificEpithet: furva; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Panzer, 1798); vernacularName: Nomade funeste (French), Schwaerzliche Wespenbiene (German); Location : country: Luxembourg; locality: Remerschen ; decimalLatitude: 49.4837; decimalLongitude: 6.3475; Identification : identifiedBy: Andrea Jakubzik ; Event: samplingProtocol: Net; eventDate: 16-07-2004; Record Level: institutionCode: MNHNL; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Diagnosis

Male: A small (4-6 mm) dark coloured Nomada presenting yellow maculations in the margin of labrum, malar area, apex of clypeus and in front of the eyes (Fig. 1 a and b). The lower part of the sides of the propodeum shows a small sub-erect tuft of pale hair (Fig. 1 c). The dark brown abdomen presents impuctated tergites with lateral yellow spots and a notched tergite 7 (Fig. 1 d). The labrum presents a small tooth (Fig. 1 e) and the femur 2 is widened (Fig. 1 f).

Voucher specimen (MNHNL39915): Adult male. Body length of 4.7 mm.

Ecology

A bivoltine species that parasites the nests of small Lasioglossum , with a flight season that extends from the end of April until mid-September ( Amiet et al. 2007).

Conservation

Nomada furva is classified under the IUCN category "Data Deficient (DD)", meaning that there is a lack of scientific information to assess extinction risk ( Nieto et al. 2014). More information regarding its population size, distribution, trends and potential threats to this species is needed ( Smit 2013).

Figures

Figure 1. Nomada furva (Panzer, 1798) (Remerschen, specimen MNHNL 39915). a. Dorsal view (scale bar = 1 mm); b. Lateral view (scale bar = 1 mm); c. Propodeum, showing tuft of pale hair; d. Abdomen, yellow spots / bands and notched tergite 7; e. Labrum tooth (scale bar = 100 µm); f. Femur 2. Photos: MNHNL. Background edited using GIMP 2.8.22 (The GIMP Development Team 2020).