Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) haeckeli ( Friese, 1910 ) Friese, 1910

Aguiar, Antonio J. C. & Melo, Gabriel A. R., 2005, Notes on the type species of the subgenera Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) and P. (Amphipedia) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini), Zootaxa 1084, pp. 31-42 : 33-36

Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) haeckeli ( Friese, 1910) new combination

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Tetrapedia haeckeli Friese, 1910: 64 . Lectotype male, Peru, Vilcanota (ZMB), here designated. Ducke (1910): 369.

Paratetrapedia (Amphipedia) haeckeli ; Michener and Moure (1957): 413, figs. 13–15 (misidentification); Silveira et al. (2002): 136 (misidentification).

Paratetrapedia (Amphipedia) haeckli [sic]; Silveira and Campos (1995): 375 (misidentification); Neff and Simpson (1981): 110 (misidentification).

P. haeckeli, Vogel (1974): 207 (misidentification of P. punctifrons , discussion of oil­collecting apparatus).

Comments

Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) haeckeli is distinct from the others species of P. ( Lophopedia ) mainly by the color of integument, mostly black with only some areas yellow, leg pubescence mostly black, mesoscutum with fine dense punctures (<0.5 pd), and scutellum with surface slightly convex, almost flat, with dense pubescence on disc. The extended diagnosis presented here is based on material compared with the type specimens.

Male. Measurements (in mm). Body length: 5.5; maximum head width: 2.2; fore wing length, with tegula: 7.0 (without tegula: 6.4); maximum T2 width: 2.5; head about 1.2x broader than long (2.2:1.8); ratio of lower to upper interocular distances: 0.83 (1.05:1.26); clypeus about 1.4x broader than long (0.91:0.64); scape: length, 0.55, maximum width, 0.19; length of F1–F3: 0.17, 0.10, 0.17; diameter of F2: 0.19.

Color. Integument mostly black. Mandible, clypeus and supraclypeal area yellow; frons mostly black, with a narrow yellow stripe along lower portion of inner eye margin (fig. 6). Gena black with a narrow yellow stripe (ca. 0.8x diameter of F2). Scape yellow; pedicel and flagellomeres reddish yellow. Pronotum mostly yellow; mesoscutum black, with two narrow central yellow stripe and another on the lateral margin; scutellum yellow with a black stripe along the anterior margin; axilla yellow dorsally and black laterally; metanotum mostly yellow. Metasomal terga yellow with marginal zones black. Legs mostly black, with distal third of femur and tarsomeres yellow; tibial spurs white. Fore wing membrane with basal two­thirds yellow fuscous, with yellow microtrichiae; distal third dark fuscous with black microtrichiae; veins and pterostigma orange yellow.

Pubescence (length of setae in mm). Face with dense short, pale yellow, plumose pubescence on paraocular area, denser on sub­antennal area and scapal basin. Upper paraocular area and vertex with long simple setae (ca. 0.08–0.12). Scape with simple yellow setae (0.12). Mesoscutum with dense, very short, yellow, plumose pubescence, intermingled with long sparse simple pale yellow setae (ca. 0.05). Scutellum with dense short plumose pubescence on disc (ca. 2x longer than mesoscutum plumose hairs), intermingled with dense simple setae (ca. 0.08–0.17). Metapostnotum with short sparse hairs (ca. 0.08). T2–T4 with marginal bands of short plumose brownish hairs on lateral portions, occupying less than one­third of tergal marginal zone; T5–T6 with complete marginal band of dense plumose yellow hairs. S2 with pre­marginal band of simple setae, with apices directed laterally; S3 with pre­marginal band of sparse simple setae, with a conspicuous interval on mid portion; S4 with dense long plumose decumbent hairs on margin, with lateral portions as long fringes converging to the center; S6 with simple setae on surface of apical portion (fig. 4). Leg pubescence mostly dark; hind leg mostly with black hairs, with white hairs on lower third of tibial scopa.

Sculpture. Clypeus with dense coarse punctures (ca. 0.5 pd); supraclypeal area with coarse punctures almost contiguous (<0.5 pd); frons with coarse punctures mostly dense (0.5–1 pd); paraocular area and vertex with dense fine punctures (ca. 1 pd). Lateral mesepisternum with dense coarse punctures on omaulus and upper portion (<0.5 pd); lower portion mostly smooth. Mesoscutum with dense fine punctures (<0.5 pd), intermingled with few sparse coarse punctures (>3 pd). Metapostnotum with sparse fine punctures (>2 pd). Propodeum with fine sparse punctures (ca. 2 pd), intermingled with fine, minute punctures (ca. 1–2 pd) on upper portion, near metanotum.

Structure. Supraclypeal area with a thin transverse carina on lower margin; its disc weakly convex. Dorsal surface of scutellum slightly convex, almost flat, its posterior margin declivitous.

Female. Measurements (in mm). Body length: 8.2; maximum head width: 2.5; fore wing length, with tegula: 6.7 (without tegula: 6.0); maximum T2 width: 2.5; head about 1.3x broader than long (2.5:2.0); ratio of lower to upper interocular distances: 0.74 (1.12:1.5); clypeus about 1.5x wider than long (1.07:0.69); scape: length, 0.7, maximum width: 0.19; length of F1–F3: 0.21, 0.08, 0.16; diameter of F2: 0.19.

Color. Similar to male, except for gena with a broad yellow stripe (ca. 1.2x diameter of F2), and lateral mesepisternum with a small yellow spot on upper omaular area.

Pubescence. Similar to male; erect setae on upper paraocular area and vertex ca. 0.08 mm long; simple erect setae of scutellum ca. 0.14–0.33 mm long; metapostnotum with very short sparse setae (ca. 0.03 mm long). Terga with marginal bands of pale yellow hairs. Scopa mostly with black hairs; except for white hairs on lower portion of tibia and on upper portion of basitarsus.

Sculpture. Punctation, in general, denser than in male; clypeus and supraclypeal area with coarse punctures almost contiguous (<0.5 pd). Frons with coarse punctures (0.5–1 pd), intermingled with fine sparse punctures (ca. 1 pd). Lateral mesepisternum with dense fine punctures (0.5–1 pd), sparse on central portion (>2 pd). Mesoscutum with very dense fine, minute punctures (<0.5–1 pd). Metapostnotum with fine, minute punctures (ca. 2 pd), except for smooth and shiny, relatively broad, lateral margins. Propodeum with fineminute punctures (ca. 1–2 pd), intermingled with fine sparse punctures (ca. 2 pd).

Structure. Similar to male except for usual secondary sexual characteristics.

Type material

In the ZMB collection, there are three specimens identified by Friese as Tetrapedia haeckeli . One female specimen, bearing the following labels “ Peru \ Vilcanota\ 1900” “ Tetrapedia F\ haeckeli \ 1900 Friese det.” “ Typus ” [printed red label], is here designated lectotype in order to stabilize the taxonomy of the group.

Additional examined material

COLOMBIA: 1 male (ZMB), “ Columbia \ Popayan\ 1900” “ Tetrapedia \ haeckeli M\ M.1900 Friese det. Fr” “ Type ” “Zool. Mus.\ Berlin”; 1 male (ZMB), “ Columbia \ Popayan\ 1900” “ Tetrapedia M\ haeckeli \ 1900 Friese det.”; 1 female (ZMB), “ Columbia \ Popayan\ 1900”; ECUADOR: 1 male and 2 females (AMNH), “Macas, Rio Upano\ Ecuador I.25.39” “Coll.\ F. M.Brown”; 1 female (MSML), “ ECUADOR, Zamora, Zamora\ ­Parque Nac. Podocarpus\ road, 1019 m asl\ S45,196 W78 57,411 \ 8xi01 Rasmussen leg”; 1 female (DZUP), “ ECUADOR, Zamora, Zamora\ ­Parque Nac. Podocarpus\ road, 1019 m asl\ S45,196 W78 57,411 \ 8xi01 Rasmussen leg”; PERU: 1 male (AMNH), “Valle Chanchamayo\ ( Peru) 1600m \ 1.4.1939 \ leg. Weyrauch” “187”; 1 male and 1 female (AMNH), “ PERU: Montenegro \ Bagua, Amazonas\ Sept. 29. oct.2.1963\ 350m. Wygodzinsky”; 1 male (SEMK), “ PERU: Pasco Dept.\ Villa Rica­Puerto Bermudas Rd.\ 920 m, 10 34`30”S, 75 5`12”W\ 17 OCT 1999; R. Brooks\ PERU 1B99 048\ ex: on wet sand river” “SM0145093\ KUNHM­ENT”; 1 female (ZMB), “ Peru \ Vilcanota\ 1900”; 1 female (MZSP), “17.839” “96926” “ Tetrapedia \ haeckeli \ F 1900 Friese det.\ Fr.” “ Amphipedia \ haeckeli \ (Friese)”; information associated to number 17.839 in MZSP’s Record Book number IV: “specimen number 17.839, data: 1902, habita: Peru; Tetrapedia haeckeli Fr. ; det. Ducke 13, col.­compr. Strand”.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5: Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) haeckeli (Friese, 1910) (specimen from Maca, Rio Upano, Ecuador); fig 1: sternum 6; fig. 2: sternum 7; fig. 3: sternum 8; fig. 4: genitalia, ventral view; fig. 5: genitalia, dorsal view.

FIGURES 6 – 8: Paratetrapedia (Lophopedia) haeckeli (Friese, 1910) (specimens from Bagua, Montenegro, Peru); fig. 6: face of male; fig. 7: face of female; fig. 8: mesoscutum of male.