Pachyanthidium Friese, 1905

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Pachyanthidium Friese, 1905

Anthidium (Pachyanthidium) Friese, 1905: 66-75. Type species: Anthidium bicolor Lepeletier, 1841 designated by Cockerell 1920: 298.

Pachyanthidium Friese: Cockerell 1930: 45.

Note.

This genus can be easily distinguished by its explicit robust body, closed scutoscutellar suture (Fig. 12C ), and lamellated preoccipital carina, omaular carina, and scutellum (see Fig. 12C, E ). Eardley and Griswold (2017) revised 16 Afrotropical species of this genus from 18 described species, the two remaining species are in the subgenus Anthidium Trichanthidium , including a one-time discovered Pachyanthidium himalayense (Gupta & Sharma, 1993) and Pachyanthidium lachrymosum (Smith, 1879) discovered from India and Chaiyaphum, Thailand ( Bingham 1897; ITIS 2008; Tadauchi and Tasen 2009; Kumar et al. 2017).

Figures

Figure 12. Pachyanthidium (Trichanthidium) lachrymosum (Smith, 1879) A female face B male face C male dorsal habitus D female metasoma E male lateral habitus F, G male metasoma. Scale bars: 2 mm (C, E); 1 mm (A, B, D, F, G).