Icteranthidium grohmanni ( Spinola, 1838 )

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 : 212-213

Icteranthidium grohmanni ( Spinola, 1838) ( Figs 16–25 )

Anthidium grohmanni Spinola, 1838: 524 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: Italy.

Anthidium numida Lepeletier, 1841: 392 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: Algeria.

Anthidium latreillei Lepeletier, 1841: 393 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: France.

Anthidium provinciale Lepeletier, 1841: 395 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: Spain.

Anthidium rubiginosum Lepeletier, 1841: 396 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: Spain.

Anthidium comptum Lepeletier, 1841: 398 , ♀. Type locality: Algeria.

Anthidium lepeletieri Fonscolombe, 1846: 43 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: France.

Anthidium coronatum Smith, 1854: 204 , ♀. Type locality: Albania (homonym, non Dufour, 1853).

Anthidium latreillei var. obscurum Dusmet, 1908: 108 . Type locality: Spain.

Icteranthidium tergale Pasteels, 1969: 414 , ♀, ♂. Type locality: Greece; Synonymized by Warncke (1980: 171).

Anthidium grohmanni Spinola, 1838 : Warncke, 1980: 127, ♀ (key), 142, ♂ (key), 171.

Icteranthidium latreillei ( Lepeletier, 1841) : Wu, 2006: 137, ♀ (key), ♂ (key), 139, ♀, ♂, redescription, fig. 68.

Icteranthidium grohmanni ( Spinola, 1838) : Özbek & Zanden, 1993: 201; Rasmont et al., 1995: 55; Ornosa et al., 2008: 71; Nadimi et al., 2014: 421; Güler et al., 2014: 261.

Diagnosis. The female has the paraocular area yellow, with the maculation not reaching the top of eye; the frons without yellow maculation or with a very little maculation under middle ocellus; the mesepisternum black, without yellow maculation; the posterior margin of T2 truncate; the T1 laterally with dense punctation, interstices not reach puncture diameters. The male has the mesepisternum black, without yellow maculation; the punctation on T1 same as female; the T7 rectangulary rounded.

Material examined. China, Xinjiang: Altay Shi, Talat (47º53′N, 87º55′E), 930 m, 2♂ 5♀, 14.VIII.1960, leg. Shuyong Wang.

Flower association. Eryngium campestre L. var. virens Link (Apiaceae) ( Güler et al., 2014).

Distribution. China (Xinjiang), Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Spain, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Russia (South of European part, North Caucasus), Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Armenia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan.

Figures

Figures 16–21. Icteranthidium grohmanni (Spinola, 1838). 16–18. Female. 16. Body in lateral view; 17. Head in frontal view; 18. Mesosoma in dorsal view. 19–21. Male. 19. Body in lateral view; 20. Head in frontal view; 21. Mesosoma in dorsal view. Scale bars=1mm.

Figures 22–25. Icteranthidium grohmanni (Spinola, 1838). 22–23. Female. 22. Metasoma in dorsal view; 23. Apex of metasoma in dorsal view, showing the T6. 24–25. Male. 24. Metasoma in dorsal view; 25. Apex of metasoma in dorsal view, showing the T6–7. Scale bars=1mm.