Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) cearensis Ducke 1910: 85

Mawdsley, Jonathan R., 2018, New records and diagnostic notes on large carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: genus Xylocopa Latreille), from the Amazon River basin of South America, Insecta Mundi 631, pp. 1-15 : 4

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) cearensis Ducke 1910: 85

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Known Distribution. Brazil (Bahia, Ceará, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Pará, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte; Hurd 1978: 54). Also reported here from Amazonas and Rondônia. Type locality: Caridade, Ceará, Brazil ( Ducke 1910: 85).

Material examined. Brazil: Amazonas: Tapuruquara , V.1963, L. Guindani (4 ♀), VI.1963, L. Guindani (3 ♀) ; Pará: Belem , VI.1956, M. C. Oliveira (1 ♀) ; Conceição do Araguaia , IX.1959, J. S. P. Costa (1 ♀), II.1960, J. S. P. Costa (13 females), Mangabeira, Mocajuba, V.1953, O. Rego (1 ♀) ; Rondônia: Pedro Velho , 2.XI.1954, Barros (3 ♀) .

Notes. The female of this species is superficially similar in overall appearance to that of X. (N.) grises- cens Lepeletier but is much smaller in overall body size and total body length, as noted in the key. The date of publication of the paper by Ducke in which this species was described has been given by various authors and databases as 1909, 1910, or 1911 ( Hurd and Moure 1963; Hurd 1978). Although the first portion of Volume 28 of the “Revue d’Entomologie” was indeed published in 1909, the indication at the bottom of p. 81 in the middle of the Ducke (1910) paper indicates that the particular issue containing the description of Xylocopa cearensis was published in “Mars [= March], 1910.”

Figures

Figures 1–13. Dorsal habitus photographs of pinned, preserved specimens of females of Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) species from the Amazon River basin, from the USNM collection. 1) X. (N.) aeneipennis. 2) X. (N.) amazonica. 3) X. (N.) aurulenta. 4) X. (N.) carbonaria. 5) X. (N.) cearensis. 6) X. (N.) fimbriata. 7) X. (N.) frontalis. 8) X. (N.) grisescens. 9) X. (N.) hirsutissima. 10) X. (N.) orthogonaspis. 11) X. (N.) similis. 12) X. (N.) suspecta. 13) X. (N.) tegulata.