Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) fimbriata Fabricius 1804: 340

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 : 5

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) fimbriata Fabricius 1804: 340

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Known Distribution. Barbados, Belize, Brazil (Pará, Rio Branco), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, St. Kitts, Suriname, Trinidad, Venezuela ( Hurd 1978: 77). Recorded here from Roraima, Brazil. Type locality: “America meridionali” ( Fabricius 1804: 340).

Material examined. Brazil: Roraima: Surumu (4 ♀) .

Notes. Females of this species can be readily recognized by the unique pair of tubercles or “horns” on the frons, as described in the key. The length and prominence of the two tubercles varies greatly among females in this species, and even varies among specimens which were collected at the same time at the same locality ( Hurd 1978; Mawdsley 2017).

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.