Lasioglossum (Dialictus) eleutherense (Engel)

Gibbs, Jason, 2011, Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini), Zootaxa 3073, pp. 1-216 : 87-88

Lasioglossum (Dialictus) eleutherense (Engel)

Habralictellus eleutherensis Engel, 2001a: 36. Ƥ 3.

Holotype. BAHAMAS, Eleuthera, Rainbow Bay, 1.vii.1987 (D.B. & R.W. Wiley); [ FSCA].

Diagnosis. Both sexes of L. eleutherense can be recognised by head and mesosoma bright iridescent green, metasoma reddish-orange with dark brown transverse bands, and vein 1rs-m absent resulting in two submarginal cells. The male genital capsule lacks a retrorse lobe ( Fig. 2 in Engel 2001a).

Range. Southern Florida, Bahamas, Cuba.

DNA Barcode. Unavailable.

Comments. Rare. Recently collected from Miami, Florida by John Pascarella. Lasioglossum eleutherense is the only bright iridescent Dialictus known to occur in the United States. Eight species of the bright iridescent group of Dialictus (= Habralictellus) are known and six were described recently ( Engel 2001a; Genaro 2001). For a complete description of L. (D.) eleutherense see Engel (2001a).

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FIGURE 2. Propodeum and metapostnotum variation in female Lasioglossum (Dialictus). (A) L. cressonii, (B) L. nigroviride, (C) L. lineatulum, (D) L. coreopsis, (E) L. connexum, (F) L. (D.) sp.