Protandrena (Andinopanurgus) wayruronga Gonzalez & Ruz

Gonzalez, Victor H. & Engel, Michael S., 2011, Andinopanurgus, a new Andean subgenus of Protandrena (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), ZooKeys 126, pp. 57-76 : 70

Protandrena (Andinopanurgus) wayruronga Gonzalez & Ruz

Protandrena wayruronga Gonzalez and Ruz, 2007: 400 [♂].

Rhophitulus wayruronga (Gonzalez and Ruz); Ascher and Pickering 2011 [unjustified transfer].

New record.

1♂, Ecuador, Pich. [Pichincha], Quito (48 KmS), 6 May 1975, Ashley Gurney (USNM).

Comments.

This species was previously known from the male holotype collected in Papallacta, Napo (Ecuador). Gonzalez and Ruz (2007) tentatively identified a single specimen from Cauca, Colombia, as the female of this species. The putative female is very similar to another one from Valle, Colombia, except in the length of the apex of the protibial spur; in the specimen from Cauca the apex is long, about one-half of the malus length, whereas in the female from Valle it is short, about one-third of the malus length, as it is in the holotype. Such a difference in both females suggests that they might not be conspecific, although we do not know how variable this character is within and among species. The complete label data of the female from Valle are as follows: "Colombia: Valle, Tenerife, Paramo at 12,000' R. E. Dietz, Sept. 15, 1970" (USNM).