Augochlora (Augochlora) ignifera Crawford, 1914

Gibbs, Jason, 2016, Bees of the family Halictidae Thomson, 1869 from Dominica, Lesser Antilles (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 180, pp. 1-50 : 42

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2016.180

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DC65F03D-E892-4E79-A99A-26A11D77213D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3850550

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Augochlora (Augochlora) ignifera Crawford, 1914
status

 

Augochlora (Augochlora) ignifera Crawford, 1914 View in CoL

Fig. 22 View Fig A–C

Augochlora ignifera Crawford, 1914: 46 View in CoL .

Type locality

DOMINICA: Yale Expedition 1913, Jun. –Jul. 1913, coll. H.W. Foote, Cat. No. USNM 16734 ( NMNH, holotype, ♀).

Remarks

Augochlora ignifera is the only member of this genus and tribe currently known from the island, and it can easily be distinguished from other halictid bees on that basis. The female is particularly distinctive due to the fiery red iridescence covering most of the head, mesosoma and metasoma ( Fig. 22 View Fig A–C). The wings are faintly dusky. The male has a more coppery and greenish tone ( Crawford 1914). The closest islands with a relatively well known halictid fauna are St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Six augochlorine bees are recorded from those islands ( Ashmead 1900; Moure 2007). Future studies should compare A. ignifera to these species and others which presumably occur on intermediary islands but remain undocumented.

NMNH

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Augochlora

Loc

Augochlora (Augochlora) ignifera Crawford, 1914

Gibbs, Jason 2016
2016
Loc

Augochlora ignifera

Crawford J. C. 1914: 46
1914
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