Trichotrigona extranea Camargo & Moure, 1983

Pedro, Silvia R. M. & Cordeiro, Guaraci Duran, 2015, A new species of the stingless bee Trichotrigona (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponini), Zootaxa 3956 (3), pp. 389-402 : 392

Trichotrigona extranea Camargo & Moure, 1983

Trichotrigona extranea Camargo & Moure 1983: 424 ; Michener 1990: 101, 105, 128; 1997: 59; 2000: 799; Michener & Roubik 1993: 259, 261; Camargo 1994: 50; 1996: 89; 2008: 17, 18; 2013: 24, 25; Silveira et al. 2002: 92; Camargo & Pedro 2003: 109 –122; 2007a: 72–81; 2007b: 524–525; Urban 2003: 36; Pedro 2009: 687; Rasmussen & Cameron 2010: 211, 218, 225; Pauly et al. 2013: 94.

Diagnosis. Worker ( Figs. 2, 7 , 13, 15 ; Tab. I). Front, mesoscutum and mesepisterna laterally with simple setae only; anterior wings pale yellowish; setae of tibia III yellowish; yellow maculation faint on thorax, lateral stripes on mesoscutum short, starting from middle of tegulae to axillae; axillae only with small stripe on anterior edge; tibiae III yellowish. Male ( Figs. 4, 8 , 30–37 ). Like worker in general appearance, however with a few sparse plumose setae among simple setae on frons and mesepisterna laterally; labrum flat medially.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 11. Trichotrigona camargoiana sp. nov., nest 905 c from Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil, holotype, worker, 905 - 006 (1 — side view, 5 — face), paratype, male 905 c- 017 (3 — side view, 6 — face) and paratypes, worker 905 c- 008 (9 — thorax, dorsal view) and worker 905 c-s / n (11 — wings); Trichotrigona extranea Camargo & Moure from the margins of the Daraá river, near its mouth, Amazonas, Brazil, holotype, worker (2 — side view, 7 — face), nest 262 c, and males 806 c- 010, 806 c- 0 1 (4 — side view, 8 — face) and worker 806 c- 069 (10 — thorax, dorsal view). Scale bars: Figs 1 – 4, 11 = 1 mm; Figs. 5 – 10 = 0.5 mm.

FIGURES 12 – 21. Trichotrigona camargoiana sp. nov., Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil, paratype (905 c- 011): 12 — head and detail of the setae on paraocular area (4.5 x), 14 — mesepisternum, lateral view, and detail of the setae (2 x), 16, 17 — external surface of protibia and detail of the spatulated hairs, 18 — detail of the pilose compound eye, 19, 20 — metatibia, external and internal surfaces respectively, 21 — dorsal view of the abdomen; Trichotrigona extranea Camargo & Moure, Samaúma, rio Daraá, Amazonas, Brazil, (807 c- 085): 13 — head and detail of the setae on paraocular area (4.5 x), 15 — mesepisternum, lateral view. Scale bars: Figs. 12 – 16 = 0.2 mm; Fig. 17 = 0.08 mm; Fig. 18 = 0.04 mm; Figs. 19 – 21 = 0.5 mm.

FIGURES 22 – 37. Trichotrigona, male, pre-genital sterna and genitalia. T. camargoiana sp. nov., Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil, paratype 905 c- 018, 22 – 29: abdominal sterna III – VIII and genital capsule, dorsal and ventral views, respectively; T. extranea Camargo & Moure, Samaúma, rio Daraá, Amazonas, Brazil, 806 c- 011, 30 – 37: metasomal sterna III – VIII (V and VI joined, 32), penis valve and spatha, dorsal view (33) and gonostyli, dorsal and ventral views (36, 37, the vestigial sternum IX appears hanging between the gonostyli), respectively. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.