Austrosphecodes jurupari, Gonçalves & Pereira, 2022

Gonçalves, Rodrigo Barbosa & Pereira, Felipe Walter, 2022, New species of the cuckoo bee genus Austrosphecodes Michener, 1978 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecodini) and a key for Brazilian species, European Journal of Taxonomy 819, pp. 55-89 : 73-75

Austrosphecodes jurupari sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

This species has the terga densely punctate and is similar to A. minarum in size (9 mm) and the rows of long (1.2 od) submarginal setae on S4 and S5. From this species it can be separated by the strigate vertex, the sparsely punctate mesoscutum disc (both punctate in A. minarum ), and by the shorter and less rugulose metapostnotum. Females are not known.

Etymology

Named after Jurupari, a South American god of darkness and evil, who visits people in their dreams with nightmares and presages, and preventing them from screaming by asphyxiation. The name is used as a proper noun in apposition.

Material examined

Holotype BRAZIL – Amazonas • ♂; “ B.A.B.A - Purus \ AM - Brasil\ 12, 13 - II - 1986 \ 862242 ” “SB. 20. 62°53'W - 4°52'S \ Camargo – Mazucato”; deposited in the Coleção Entomológica “Prof. J. M. F. Camargo”, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; RPSP.

Paratype BRAZIL – Acre • 1 ♂; “DZUP\568674” “ R. Branco Acre \ BR 15-20-XI 61 \ F. M. Oliveira ”; DZUP 568674 .

Description

Male

MEASUREMENTS. Head width 2.2 mm, length 1.9 mm; intertegular distance 1.5 mm; body length about 8.0 mm.

HEAD. Labrum dark amber to black. Mandible dark amber; long setae on outer and ventral margin, more concentrated on base. Clypeus black; sulcate; basal margin arcuate in the middle; densely punctate (i<pd); sparse long decumbent setae on middle; small concentration of long decumbent setae on lateral apexes. Supraclypeal area black; densely punctate (i<pd); dull interspaces; plumose decumbent setae absent in the middle, present on middle of antennae insertions and below antennae. Paraocular area black; densely punctate; dull interspaces; densely covered with yellowish decumbent plumose setae on middle to bottom; upper densely punctate (i <pd) to rugose, punctures almost touching themselves; few short erect setae. Antennae (paratype) light brown anteriorly; brownish on ventral surfaces of flagellomeres; scape long, almost reaching mid ocellus; few erect setae on scape; scape punctate to sparsely punctate, mostly polished; flagellomeres homogeneous covered with short whitish setae. Frons black; densely punctate (i <pd); dull interspaces; sparse long erect setae; weakly depressed above supraclypeal area. Vertex punctate to rugose, carinate on posterior margin, few short erect setae. Gena rugose-carinate; imbricate; loosely rugose as seen on on lateral view, imbricate; densely covered with decumbent whitish setae.

MESOSOMA. Pronotum rugose; covered with long whitish setae dorsally; weakly covered with tomentum as seen on lateral view; imbricate near pronotal lobe. Posterior margin of pronotum covered with tomentum. Prosternum black, imbricate, weakly covered with tomentum on the middle. Fore leg. Coxa black, dull, imbricate, covered with whitish long setae; trochanter black, imbricate, few setae; femur black on base and brown on apex, imbricate, sparse erect setae; tibia amber; tibial spur serrate on apex, with one sharp tooth. Mesoscutum black, anterior border with semicircular carination; disc sparsely punctate (i>pd), polished, median sulcus weak. Mesepisternum black, coarsely rugose, not polished, sparse whitish long setae on lateral view, weakly covered with whitish setae on ventral surface. Mid leg. Coxa black, dull, imbricate, covered with whitish long setae; trochanter dark amber, imbricate, few setae; femur dark brown on base and lighter on apex; imbricate, sparse erect setae; tibia dark amber, one simple tibial spur. Tegula dark amber, concentric lineolate, polished in the middle. Fore wing with 3 submarginal cells. Scutellum black, polished, few sparse punctures on disc. Metanotum black, rugulose, mostly covered with tomentum. Metepisternum rugose and dull, more carinate near tegula, weakly covered with tomentum. Hind leg. Coxa black to dark amber, dull, imbricate, presence of long whitish setae; trochanter dark amber, imbricate, few setae; femur dark brown on base and lighter on apex, imbricate, sparse erect setae; tibia amber. Hind wing with 5 hamuli. Metapostnotum weakly concave, margin rounded, areolate. Latero-dorsal surface gently declivitous, scrobiculate. Propodeum densely covered with tomentum.

METASOMA. T1 black, densely punctate. T2 black, punctulate, short setae on anterior margin, posterior margin mostly polished. T3 black, punctate, imbricate, setae on anterior margin to middle, longer sparse setae on middle; T4 black, punctate, setae on anterior margin to middle, longer sparse setae on middle. T5 black, mostly imbricate, weakly covered with long setae. Pygidial plate black, dull, without setae. S1–S2 black, imbricate, few sparse setae. S3–5 black on posterior margin, imbricate, with long marginal setae. S6 black, imbricate, few sparse long erect setae.

Variation

The paratype from Acre has some amber portions on the metasoma, lighter legs and less plumose head pubescence. However, the remaining features agree with the holotype from Amazonas, especially the ornamentation of head and mesosoma and the pubescence on S3–5.

Figures

Fig. 5. Austrosphecodes jurupari sp. nov., holotype ♂ (RPSP). A. Head and mesosoma, blue arrow: strigate vertex, red arrow: carinate anterior margin of mesoscutum. B. Propodeum and metasoma. C. Metasomal sterna. Scale bar = 1 mm.

Fig. 10. Geographic records map. A. Austrosphecodes asmodeus sp. nov., A. balrog sp. nov., A. brasiliensis (Schrottky, 1910). B. A. cerberus sp. nov., A gorgon sp. nov., A. inornatus (Schrottky, 1902). C. A. jurupari sp. nov., A. krampus sp. nov., A. lucifer sp. nov. D. A. minarum (Schrottky, 1910), A. orcus sp. nov., A. tartarus sp. nov.