Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) aeneipennis ( De Geer 1773: 573 )

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 : 3

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) aeneipennis ( De Geer 1773: 573)

Fig. 1

Known distribution. Barbados, Brazil (Pará), French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela ( Hurd 1978: 46). Type locality: “Surinam” ( De Geer 1773: 573).

Notes. This species was recorded from Pará in Brazil by Hurd (1978), but there are no specimens of this species from this state in the USNM collection. I include it in the key below based on material that I examined in USNM from localities in northern South America outside the Amazon basin, including localities in Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana, as well as Barbados. The female of this species can be readily recognized by the combination of densely, coarsely punctate metasomal tergites and hyaline wings with feeble iridescent reflections.

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.