Lophopedia apicalis ( Cresson 1878 )

Aguiar, Antonio J. C., 2009, Taxonomic revision of the bee genus Lophopedia Michener and Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini), Zootaxa 2193, pp. 1-52 : 8-9

Lophopedia apicalis ( Cresson 1878)

( Figs. 12 , 18 , 23−25 , 26−30 )

Tetrapedia apicalis Cresson 1878: 200 ; lectotype female, examined (ANSP), MEXICO; designated by Cresson (1916): 111.

Tetrapedia terminalis Cresson 1878: 136 ; holotype female, examined (ANSP), MEXICO.

Tetrapedia fraterna Cresson 1878: 136 ; lectotype male, examined (ANSP), MEXICO; designated by Cresson (1916): 119.

Tetrapedia abdominalis Cresson, 1878: 182 ; lectotype male, examined (ANSP), MEXICO; designated by Cresson (1916): 110.

Tetrapedia acuticollis Cheesman 1929: 142 ; lectotype female, examined (BMNH), COLOMBIA: Valle del Cauca, Isla Gorgona; designated by Aguiar (2007); new synonymy.

Tetrapedia apicalis ; Dalla-Torre (1896): 299; Cresson (1879): 228; Friese (1899): 289; Cockerell (1899): 16; Cockerell (1906): 98; Lutz and Cockerell (1920): 568; Michener (1954): 116.

Tetrapedia terminalis ; Cresson (1879): 228; Dalla-Torre (1896): 300; Cockerell (1899): 16; Cresson (1916): 132; Cockerell (1906): 98; Lutz and Cockerell (1920): 569; Michener (1954): 116.

Tetrapedia fraterna ; Cresson (1879): 228; Dalla-Torre (1896): 299; Friese (1899): 303; Cockerell (1899): 16; Lutz and Cockerell (1920): 569.

Tetrapedia abdominalis ; Cresson (1879): 229; Dalla-Torre (1896): 299; Friese (1899): 279; Cockerell (1899): 16; Cockerell (1906): 98; Friese (1916): 334; Lutz and Cockerell (1920): 568; Schwarz (1934): 13.

Chalepogenus apicalis ; Cockerell (1923b): 3.

Chalepogenoides abdominalis ; Michener (1942): 281.

Paratetrapedia apicalis ; Michener (1954): 116, figs. 71–73; (misidentification of Paratetrapedia sp., suggested by the

drawings of S7–S8 and genitalia); Heithaus (1979): 195.

Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) apicalis ; Michener and Moure (1957): 415; Yáñez-Ordóñez and Hinojosa-Díaz (2004):

193; Hinojosa-Díaz (2003): 18.

Lophopedia acuticollis ; Aguiar (2007): 616.

Lophopedia apicalis ; Aguiar (2007): 616.

Comments and diagnosis. Lophopedia apicalis , L. minor sp. nov., and L. paraensis sp.nov. compose a group of species with very similar morphology. Small bees (ca. 7.0 mm in length), integument mostly dark brown, wing membrane pale brown to pale yellow infumated, mesepisternum mostly smooth (sparse coarse punctures), clypeus of female usually with two small yellow spots on margin laterally. These species can be distinguished mainly by the males, due to the pattern of pubescence on margins of terga, shape and pubescence of S7.

Lophopedia apicalis is easily identified by the fore wing membrane with distal half pale white, almost hyaline, constrasting with the proximal half dark brown infumated ( Fig. 12 ). The males of Lophopedia apicalis present the T4−T5 with marginal hair bands absent or ocuppying less than a third of margin laterally, and T6 with marginal band complete ( Fig. 25 ), S6 of male present numerous setae occupying the surface of apical portion ( Fig. 26 ).

Distribution: BELIZE; COLOMBIA; COSTA RICA; GUATEMALA; HONDURAS; MEXICO; NICARAGUA; PANAMA; VENEZUELA ( Fig. 18 ).

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 23 − 25. Lophopedia apicalis (Cresson), male. Fig. 23: head, frontal view; Fig 24: lateral view; Fig. 25: dorsal view.

FIGURES 26 − 30. Lophopedia apicalis (Cresson), male genitalia; Figs. 26 − 28: S 6 − S 8; Fig. 29 − 30: genital capsule, ventral and dorsal views.