Sphecodes invidus ( Cameron, 1897 )

Astafurova, Yulia & Proshchalykin, Maxim, 2020, New and little-known bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) from the Himalayas, European Journal of Taxonomy 729, pp. 74-120 : 93-95

Sphecodes invidus ( Cameron, 1897)

Halictus invidus Cameron, 1897: 96 , ♀ [♂].

Sphecodes nigrobasalis Meyer, 1922: 172 , ♂. Syn. nov.

Sphecodes invidus – Ascher & Pickering 2020: map.

Diagnosis

The male of this species is similar to that of S. dissimilandus (refer to Diagnosis for S. dissimilandus , above).

Material examined

Syntype INDIA • 1 ♂; “1000. // Mussoorie [Uttarakhand, India], Rothney [leg.] // Halictus invidus Cameron , Type // Type Hyme 1958, Halictus invidus Cameron, 1897 , Holotype, ♂, Hope Ent Coll.”; OUMNH .

Other material

INDIA • 1 ♂, holotype of S. nigrobasalis Meyer, 1922 ; “Assam [India], Shillong 6.03., coll. Bingham // Sphec. nigrobasalis n. scec., Dr. R. Meyer det., Type!”; ZMHB ( Figs 9 , 10 A–D) .

Descriptive notes

Wings hyaline, with weak yellowish darkening; hind wing with the angle between basal (M) and cubital (Cu) veins ca 80°, costal margin with eight or nine hamuli. Lateral preoccipital carina present.

Male

Total body length 7.5–8.5 mm. Head transverse, ca 1.2 times as wide as long; vertex well elevated with distance from top of head to upper margin of lateral ocellus approximately two lateral ocellar diameters as seen in frontal view and ca 3 as seen in dorsal view; antennae attain mesoscutellum, flagellomeres (from F2 onward) 1.2–1.3 times as long as wide, tyloids well developed, covering entire lateral flagellar surface and peripheral part of ventral one (with medial glabrous spot); ocello-ocular area areolate; face with dense plumose pubescence, below antennal sockets obscuring integument. Mesoscutum areolate-punctate (30–50 μm), mesoscutellum areolate with a few interspaces of at most a puncture diameter; propodeal triangle (metapostnotum) shorter than mesoscutellum, roughly reticulate-rugose; mesepisternum coarsely reticulate-rugose; legs red-brown. Metasomal terga densely punctate (15–25 μm / 0.5–3), T1 marginal zone punctured barely finer than on disc, impunctate along posterior margin; T2–T5 marginal zones impunctate; T1 red apically, T2–T3 mostly red.

Female

Unknown.

Distribution

India (Uttarakhand, Meghalaya).

Figures

Fig. 9. Sphecodes invidus (Cameron, 1897) (holotype of S. nigrobasalis Meyer, 1922), ♂ (ZMHB). Habitus in lateral view and labels. Scale bar = 1 mm.

Fig. 10. Sphecodes invidus (Cameron, 1897) (holotype of S. nigrobasalis Meyer, 1922), ♂ (ZMHB). A. Head in frontal view. B. Antenna in lateral view. C. Mesosoma in dorsal view. D. Metasoma in dorsal view. Scale bars = 1.0 mm.