Lophopedia nigriceps ( Friese, 1899 )

Aguiar, Antonio J. C., 2009, Taxonomic revision of the bee genus Lophopedia Michener and Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini), Zootaxa 2193, pp. 1-52 : 27

Lophopedia nigriceps ( Friese, 1899)

( Figs. 14 , 19 , 56−58 )

Tetrapedia testacea var. nigriceps Friese, 1899: 298 ; lectotype male, examined (ZMB), BOLIVIA; designated by Aguiar and Melo (2005): 37.

Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) nigriceps ; Michener and Moure (1957): 415; Aguiar and Melo (2005): 37 ; Rasmussen and Ascher (2008): 76.

Lophopedia nigriceps ; Aguiar (2007): 617.

Comments and Diagnosis. Lophopedia nigriceps can be distinguished from L. flava by the mesoscutum dark brown; frons usually dark brown; integumental sculptures of frons composed only of dense coarse punctures on male, and coarse punctures intermingled with finely minute on female; disc of scutellum with dense and long pubescence on disc, longer than the mesoscutum; scutellum profile abruptly declivous. The male of L. nigriceps present the marginal bands on terga pale yellow and occupies less than third of margin laterally on T4, while on L. savanicola sp.nov. the marginal bands on terga are reddish brown, almost black, and occupies more than third of margin laterally on T4. The male genitalia of L. nigriceps is identical to L. haeckeli .

Distribution: BOLIVIA ( Fig. 19 ).

Figures

FIGURES 11 − 16. Fore wing of species of Lophopedia. Fig. 11: Lophopedia pygmaea. Fig. 12: L. apicalis. Fig. 13: L. savanicola sp. nov. Fig. 14: L. nigriceps. Fig. 15: L. nigrispinis. Fig. 16: L. minor sp. nov.

FIGURES 17 − 20. Distribution records for species of Lophopedia. Fig. 17: general distribution of the genus Lophopedia; Fig. 18: L. apicalis (●) and L. buchwaldi (˔); Fig. 19: L. flava (●), L. haeckeli (□), L. nigriceps (Δ), L. klugi (˔); Fig. 20: L. minor sp. nov. (●), L. paraensis sp. nov (Δ).

FIGURES 56 − 58. Lophopedia nigriceps (Friese); head of male: frontal, lateral, and dorsal views.