Lophopedia haeckeli ( Friese 1910 )

Aguiar, Antonio J. C., 2009, Taxonomic revision of the bee genus Lophopedia Michener and Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini), Zootaxa 2193, pp. 1-52 : 18

Lophopedia haeckeli ( Friese 1910)

( Figs. 19 , 37−36 )

Tetrapedia haeckeli Friese 1910: 64 ; lectotype female, examined (ZMB), PERU: Vilcanota; designated by Aguiar and Melo (2005): 33.

Tetrapedia haeckeli ; Ducke (1910): 369.

Paratetrapedia (Amphipedia) haeckeli ; Michener and Moure (1957): 413 (misidentification of T. punctifrons (Smith)); Neff and Simpson (1981): 110.

Paratetrapedia (Amphipedia) haeckli [sic]; Silveira and Campos (1995): 375 (misidentification of T. punctifrons (Smith) , suggested by distribution).

P. haeckeli ; Vogel (1974): 207 (misidentification of T. punctifrons (Smith)).

Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) haeckeli ; Aguiar and Melo (2005): 33 (figs. 1–8; diagnosis; draws of S6–S8 and genitalia); Rasmussen and Ascher (2008): 56.

Lophopedia haeckeli ; Aguiar (2007): 617.

Comments and diagnosis. Lophopedia haeckeli is identical in structure and pubescence to L. nigriceps but can be easily distinguished by the color of integument and pubescence. Mesosoma of L. haeckeli is mostly reddish brown almost black, and marginal zone of terga black ( Fig. 39 ), and the mesosoma and metassoma of L. nigriceps are mostly orange yellow ( Fig. 58 )

Distribution: COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; PERU ( Fig. 19 ).

Variation. All the male specimens examined present the marginal band of plumose hairs on T4 occupying less than third of margin laterally except one male specimen from Macas ( Ecuador) has the marginal band almost complete. One male from Peru and one female from Ecuador have a very small yellow spot on omaular area, bellow the pronotal lobe.

Type material. Tetrapedia haeckeli , lectotype female ( ZMB): “ Peru \ Vilcanota\ 1900” “ Tetrapedia Ƥ\ haeckeli \ 1900 Friese det.” “ Typus ” [printed, red label].

Additional material examined. COLOMBIA: 1 male ( ZMB), “ Columbia \ Popayan\ 1900” “ Tetrapedia \ haeckeli 3\ M.1900 Friese det. Fr” “ Type ” “Zool. Mus.\ Berlin”; 1 male ( ZMB), “ Columbia \ Popayan\ 1900” “ Tetrapedia 3\ haeckeli \ 1900 Friese det.”; 1 female ( ZMB), “ Columbia \ Popayan\ 1900”; ECUADOR: 1 male and 2 females ( AMNH), “Macas, Rio Upano\ Ecuador I.25.39” “Coll.\ F. M.Brown”; 1 female ( CLAUS), “ ECUADOR, Zamora, Zamora\ -Parque Nac. Podocarpus\ road, 1019 m asl\ S 45,196 W 78 57,411\ 8xi01 Rasmussen leg”; 1 female ( DZUP), “ ECUADOR, Zamora, Zamora\ -Parque Nac. Podocarpus\ road, 1019 m asl\ S 45,196 W 78 57,411\ 8xi01 Rasmussen leg”; PERU: 1 male ( AMNH), “Valle Chanchamayo\ ( Peru) 1600m \ 1.4.1939 \ leg. Weyrauch” “187”; 1 male and 1 female ( AMNH), “ PERU: Montenegro \ Bagua, Amazonas\ Sept. 29.oct. 2.1963\ 350m. Wygodzinsky”; 1 male ( SEMC), “ PERU: Pasco Dept.\ Villa Rica- Puerto Bermudas Rd.\ 920 m, 10 34`30”S, 75 5`12”W\ 17 OCT 1999; R. Brooks\ PERU 1B99 048\ ex: on wet sand river” “SM0145093\ KUNHM-ENT”; 1 female ( ZMB), “ Peru \ Vilcanota\ 1900”; 1 female ( MZSP), “17.839” “96926” “ Tetrapedia \ haeckeli \ F 1900 Friese det.\ Fr.” “ Amphipedia \ haeckeli \ (Friese)”; information associated to number 17.839 in MZSP’s Record Book number IV: “specimen number 17.839, data: 1902, habita: Peru; Tetrapedia haeckeli Fr. ; det. Ducke 13, col.-compr. Strand”.

Figures

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 37 − 39. Lophopedia haeckeli (Friese), male. Fig. 37: head, frontal view; Fig 38: lateral view of mesepisternum and head; Fig. 39: dorsal view.

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