Lasioglossum (Dialictus) deceptor ( Ellis, 1914 )

Landaverde-González, Patricia, Gardner, Joel, Moo-Valle, Humberto, Quezada-Euán, José Javier G., Ayala, Ricardo & Husemann, Martin, 2023, Seven new species of Lasioglossum (Dialictus) Robertson, 1902 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini) from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, European Journal of Taxonomy 862 (1), pp. 1-65 : 50

Lasioglossum (Dialictus) deceptor ( Ellis, 1914)

Fig. 33A

Halictus (Chloralictus) deceptor Ellis, 1914: 101 (holotype, ♀, USNM ENT00535076).

Dialictus deceptor – Moure & Hurd 1987: 99 (catalogue).

Type material

Holotype GUATEMALA – Izabal • 1 ♀; Quirigua ; [15.27° N, 89.04° W]; Feb.–Mar. 1912; W.P. Cockerell leg.; USNM ENT00535076 .

Other material examined

MEXICO – Yucatán • 1 ♂; Alfonso Caso , 10 km W of Tzucacab; [20.08° N, 89.15° W]; 12 Feb. 1987; Charles D. Michener leg.; ex Viguiera dentata ; SEMC .

Remarks

Rare on the Yucatán Peninsula. The identification of this species is somewhat uncertain because only a single male was discovered in the Yucatán Peninsula, while the holotype is a female. The specimen analysed is believed to be L. deceptor and not the male of L. tropicior based on the relatively long face and moderately dense mesoscutum punctures (i = 1–2 pd), which agree more closely with the holotype of L. deceptor than with L. tropicior . Furthermore, both these species were described from the same type locality, so it is assumed that if one occurs on the Yucatán Peninsula, the other is also likely to occur there.

Figures

Fig. 33. Metasoma S3–S5 pubescence. A. Lasioglossum (Dialictus) deceptor (Ellis, 1914), ♂, very dense and thickly plumose (arrow).B. L. (D.) meteorum Gardner & Gibbs, 2020, ♂, sparse and weakly plumose.