Bathanthidium (Manthidium) bicolor ( Wu, 2004 ) Niu & Ascher & Griswold & Zhu, 2019

Niu, Ze-Qing, Ascher, John S., Griswold, Terry & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2019, Revision of the bee genus Bathanthidium Mavromoustakis (Hymenoptera: Apoidea Megachilidae: Anthidiini) with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 4657 (1), pp. 97-116 : 105-106

Bathanthidium (Manthidium) bicolor ( Wu, 2004) , comb. nov.

( Fig. 7 , a–h, male)

Anthidium (Anthidium) bicolor Wu, 2004: 542 , ♂. Holotype: ♂, China, Sichuan, Kangding, 2400–2700 m, 15.VII.1963, Jin- Long MAO, IZCAS; Wu, 2006: 145, ♂ (key), 158, ♂ (redescription), Fig. 80.

Material examined: China, Sichuan: Kangding (30º00′N 101°54′E,), 1 ♂ (holotype), 2400–2700 m, 15.VII.1963, leg. Jin-Long MAO .

Floral association: no record.

General distribution: China (Sichuan).

Remarks: Bathanthidium bicolor is very similar to B. barkamense . They share the distinctive red tegulae and red markings on the legs, and both have a thin paraocular marking, the marking of B. barkamense extending along the inner margin nearly to the top of the eye, but the marking of B. bicolor only extending to the middle of the eye.

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FIGURE 7. Bathanthidium (Manthidium) bicolor (Wu, 2004). Male. a: Body in lateral view; b: Head in frontal view; c: Mesosoma in dorsal view; d: Mesosoma in lateral view; e: Claws in frontal view, showing the arolia; f: Fovea behind the spiracle in dorsolateral view; g: Metasoma in dorsal view; h: Type labels. Scale bars: a–d, g, 1mm, e–f, 0.5mm.