Icteranthidium laterale ( Latreille, 1809 )

Niu, Zeqing, Yuan, Feng & Zhu, Chaodong, 2020, Review of the bee genus Icteranthidium Michener, 1948 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae: Anthidiini) from China, Zoological Systematics 45 (3), pp. 206-218 : 214-215

Icteranthidium laterale ( Latreille, 1809) ( Figs 26–35 )

Anthidium laterale Latreille, 1809: 40 , 209, ♀. Type locality: France.

Anthidium scutellare Latreille, 1809: 42 , 215, ♀, ♂. Type locality: Spain.

Anthidium quadrilobum Lepeletier, 1841: 401 , ♀. Type locality: France.

Anthidium auripes Eversmann, 1852: 82 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: Russia (Ural).

Anthidium annulare Schenck, 1870: 334 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: Austria.

Anthidium sexmaculatum Chévrier, 1872: 502 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: Switzerland.

Anthidium perrisii Dours, 1873: 196 , ♂. Type locality: France.

Anthidium laterale var. confluens Alfken, 1931: 57 . Type locality: Spain (Sierra Nevada).

Anthidium ifranicum Cockerell, 1931: 209 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: Morocco.

Anthidium laterale spp. scutellare Latreille, 1809 : Warncke, 1980: 173.

Anthidium laterale Latreille, 1809 : Warncke, 1980: 141, ♂ (key), 173.

Icteranthidium laterale ( Latreille, 1809) : Özbek & Zanden, 1993: 201; Rasmont et al., 1995: 55; Banaszak & Romasenko, 1998: 43, fig. VI-3; Wu, 2006: 137, ♀ (key), ♂ (key), 138, ♀, ♂, redescription, fig. 67; Ornosa et al., 2008: 72; Proshchalykin, 2013: 154; Nadimi et al., 2014: 422; Murao et al., 2015: 10, fig. 9.

Icteranthidium laterale laterale ( Latreille, 1809) : Ornosa et al., 2008: 72.

Icteranthidium laterale scutellare ( Latreille, 1809) : Ornosa et al., 2008: 72.

Diagnosis: The species has the body larger than other species from China, by the female body length 13.0–15.0 mm, male 15.0–16.0 mm. It has the paraocular area of female black, the T7 posterior margin of male deeply emarginated and the midapical projection narrow and long.

Material examined. China, Xinjiang: Habahe Xian (48º00′N, 86º24′E), 500 m, 2♂, 1.IX.1960 , 1♀, 31.VIII.1960, leg. Shuyong Wang; Burqin Xian (47º42′N, 86º54′E), 480 m, 1♀ 1♂, 25.VIII.1960 , 1♂, 27.VIII.1960, leg. Shuyong Wang; Altay Xian (47º48′N, 88º06′E), 1050 m, 1♀, 10.VIII.1960, leg. Shuyong Wang ; Altay Xian (47º48′N, 88º06′E), 1050 m, 1♂, 31.VII.1955, leg. Shijun Ma, Kailing Xia, Yonglin Chen ; Tacheng, Yumin Xian, Tasiti (43º36′N, 82º30′E), 1109 m, 1♀, 9.VIII.2016, leg. Chaodong Zhu, Dan Zhang.

Flower association. Carduus sp. ( Asteraceae ) ( Nadimi et al., 2014), Centaurea sp. ( Asteraceae ) ( Wu, 2006), Cirsium sp. ( Asteraceae ) ( Murao et al., 2015), Helianthus sp. ( Asteraceae ) (Banaszak & Romasenko, 1998), Salvia sp. ( Lamiaceae ) ( Wu, 2006).

Distribution. China (Xinjiang), Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Russia (to East Siberia), Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan.

Figures

Figures 26–31. Icteranthidium laterale (Latreille, 1809). 26–28. Female. 26. Body in lateral view; 27. Head in frontal view; 28. Mesosoma in dorsal view. 29–31. Male. 29. Body in lateral view; 30. Head in frontal view; 31. Mesosoma in dorsal view. Scale bars=1mm.

Figures 32–35. Icteranthidium laterale (Latreille, 1809). 32–33.Female. 32. Metasoma in dorsal view; 33.Apex of metasoma in dorsal view, showing the T6. 34–35. Male. 34. Metasoma in dorsal view; 35. Apex of metasoma in dorsal view, showing the T6–7. Scale bars=1mm.