Monoeca schrottkyi (Friese)

ROZEN, JEROME G., MELO, GABRIEL A. R., AGUIAR, ANTÔNIO JOSÉ CAMILLO & ALVES-DOS-SANTOS, ISABEL, 2006, Nesting Biologies and Immature Stages of the Tapinotaspidine Bee Genera Monoeca and Lanthanomelissa and of Their Osirine Cleptoparasites Protosiris and Parepeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apinae), American Museum Novitates 3501 (1), pp. 1-60 : 56

Monoeca schrottkyi (Friese)

Pachycentris schrottkyi Friese in Schrottky (1901: 215), nomen nudum.

Pachycentris schrottkyi Friese, 1902:187 . Lectotype female (presently designated), Brazil: São Paulo, Jundiaí (ZMHB).

In order to properly identify the material from Piraquara, we also studied the type material of M. schrottkyi (see Comments under M. haemorrhoidalis ). Friese described this species based on females collected by Schrottky in a nest aggregation found in Jundiaı´, São Paulo. To help stabilize the taxonomy of the genus, we designate here as lectotype one of the syntype females (see label data below).

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Lectotype female ( ZMHB), ‘‘Brasil / Jundiahy / 16.11.1899 / Schrottky’’, ‘‘ Pachycentris / schrottkyi / 1900 Friese det. / Fr.’’ (/) and ‘‘Typus’’; 1 female ( MZSP), ‘‘1.374’’ and ‘‘ PARATYPE / Monoeca / schrottkyi (Friese, 1902) / J. S. Moure 1993’’ (the registry book of the MZSP contains the following data under the number 1.374: ‘‘ Pachycentris schrottkyi Friese (cotipo), 16.xi.1899, Jundiahy, Schrottky’’); 1 female ( MPEG), ‘‘JUNDIAHY / E. S. PAULO’’, ‘‘Brasil / Jundiahy / 18.11.1899 / Schrottky’’ and ‘‘ Pachycentris / schrottkyi Friese’’ (Ducke’s handwritten label); 1 male ( DZUP), ‘‘ São Paulo / cidade / Melzer leg. / 1914.’’ and ‘‘ Tetralonia / (Thygater.)’’; 1 male ( DZUP), ‘‘Barueri / São Paulo —Brasil / 8­IV­61 / K. Lenko col.’’ and ‘‘ Monoeca / schrottkyi / (Friese, 1902) / Pe J S Moure 1993’’; 1 female ( MZSP), ‘‘Est. Biol. Boracéia / Salesópolis, SP / W. Wilms, col. / 14.12.1992 ’’ and ‘‘ Monoeca / piliventris / (Friese, 1899) / det. W. Wilms, 1994’’; 1 female ( DZUP), ‘‘Caiobá / XII­1942 ’’ and ‘‘Fiorentina / schrottkyi / P. Moure det. 1947’’; 1 female ( DZUP), ‘‘CORUPÁ / S. Catarina BRASIL / XI­ 1953 A. Maller’’ and ‘‘ Monoeca / schrottkyi / (Fr.) / Det. J. S. Moure 1957’’ (on the reverse ‘‘C. W. cotype / MZ­USP / Pe. J. S. Moure / XII­ 1954 ’’).