Nomada sexfasciata (Panzer, 1799)

Herrera Mesias, Fernanda & Weigand, Alexander M., 2021, Updates to the checklist of the wild bee fauna of Luxembourg as inferred from revised natural history collection data and fieldwork, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 64027-64027 : 64027

Nomada sexfasciata (Panzer, 1799)

Nomada sexfasciata Common names: Nomade six-bandes (French), Langkopf-Wespenbiene (German), Six-banded Nomad Bee (English).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : catalogNumber: MNHNL25076 ; recordedBy: Fernand Feitz ; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Nomada sexfasciata (Panzer, 1799); order: Hymenoptera ; family: Apidae ; genus: Nomada ; specificEpithet: sexfasciata; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Panzer, 1799); vernacularName: Nomade six-bandes (French), Langkopf-Wespenbiene (German), Six-banded Nomad Bee (English); Location : country: Luxembourg; locality: Remich ; decimalLatitude: 49.5479; decimalLongitude: 6.36037; Identification : identifiedBy: Andrea Jakubzik ; Event: samplingProtocol: Net; eventDate: 05-05-2000; Record Level: institutionCode: MNHNL; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Diagnosis

Female: A large (11-13 mm) black and yellow Nomada species. Yellow maculations are present in the pronotal lobes, tegula, as two small spots on the scutellum and as large yellow spots on the sides of tergites 1-3, that become bands in tergites 4-5 (Fig. 3 a and b). The head presents a sharp longitudinal carina between the antennae (Fig. 3 c). Yellow maculations are present on the mandibles (apex simple), the clypeus and labrum, the malar area, the para-ocular area and on the ventral surface of the scape (Fig. 3 c). The malar area is characteristically long with a protruding lower face (Fig. 3 d) and the labrum is rounded, without a tooth (Fig. 3 e).

Voucher specimen (MNHNL25076): Adult female. Body length of 12 mm.

Ecology

An univoltine species that parasites Eucera nests, with a flight season spanning from late April until late July on the European continent ( Amiet et al. 2007).

Conservation

Nomada sexfasciata is classified under the IUCN category "Least Concern (LC)" ( Nieto et al. 2014), but it is included in the National Red Lists and Red Data Books of Great Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden ( Smit 2014).

Figures

Figure 3. Nomada sexfasciata (Panzer, 1799) (Remich, specimen MNHNL 25076). a. Dorsal view; b. Lateral view; c. Face, frontal view showing maculations, mandibles, clypeus, labrum and longitudinal carina; d. Face, lateral view showing elongated malar area. Scale bars = 1 mm. Photos: MNHNL. Background edited using GIMP 2.8.22 (The GIMP Development Team 2020).