Amisega flavipes Kimsey, 1987

Fig. 3

Amisega flavipes Kimsey, 1987: 67. Holotype ♀ (USU: not examined). BRAZIL: Bahia, Encruzilhada.

Material examined.

Brazil • 1♂ paratype; Bahia, Encruzilhada; xi.1975; M Alvarenga; BME • 1♂; Bahia, Jequié; i.2016; Antunes RCL; RPSP .

Distribution.

Brazil, BA: Encruzilhada, Jequié .

Comments.

This species can be readily distinguished from other species of the northeastern Brazil by the following combination of characters: scapal basin cross-ridged; dark brown antenna, clypeus, mandible, and metaleg; and lack of distinct striation on vertex and dorsum of mesosoma (Fig. 3C-E). In the original description, Kimsey (1987: 67) cited F1 length 4 × breadth, with the male interpreted as identical. The analyzed specimen from Jequié-BA has comparatively shorter F1 (length 2.3 × breadth), and a distinct medial pit on anterior declivity of pronotum (not cited in the original description). All other diagnostic characters described for A. flavipes are identical with this specimen. This species has been recorded in a transition area between Caatinga and Atlantic rainforest. The Encruzilhada county is in the “Sul-Baiano” highlands, on altitudes above 600 m, with milder climate than usual in the Caatinga (Radambrasil 1983). The new record herein presented for Jequié is only 207 km north of the previous record, and in spite of having a lower altitude and warmer and drier climate than the type locality, still in the transition zone between the Atlantic rainforest and Caatinga. The taxonomic conclusions about this species are based on the original description and by examination of a male paratype from Bahia: Encruzilhada (BME), and a male recently collected in Bahia: Jequié (RPSP).

Host.

Unknown.