Lasioglossum (Dialictus) griswoldi Gibbs, 2009

Gardner, Joel & Gibbs, Jason, 2020, The ‘ red-tailed’ Lasioglossum (Dialictus) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) of the western Nearctic, European Journal of Taxonomy 725, pp. 1-242 : 88-89

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.725.1167

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4337910

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scientific name

Lasioglossum (Dialictus) griswoldi Gibbs, 2009
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Lasioglossum (Dialictus) griswoldi Gibbs, 2009

Fig. 41 View Fig

Lasioglossum (Dialictus) griswoldi Gibbs, 2009b: 385 , figs 13a–b (holotype, ♀, deposited in BBSL, examined).

Diagnosis

Females of Lasioglossum griswoldi can be recognized by the characters for the Lasioglossum petrellum species complex (below), in addition to the characters given in the key and the metasomal terga with very narrow rims with long, dense apicolateral fringes (resembling L. cactorum sp. nov. in this respect). They are most similar to L. tuolumnense . Females of L. tuolumnense have the malar space and supraclypeal area shorter, and scutum slightly duller and more densely punctate. In addition, the geographic ranges of these two species are not known to overlap: L. griswoldi is only known from the mountains of Utah and Colorado, while L. tuolumnense is only known from the mountains of California north to British Columbia.

Material examined

Holotype

UNITED STATES – Utah • ♀; Kane Co., No Mans Mesa ; 37.34555° N, 112.12921° W; 31 May 2002; C. Davidson leg.; ex Packera multilobata ; BBSL. GoogleMaps

Other material

UNITED STATES – Colorado • 1 ♀; White Rocks, near Boulder; [40.06° N, 105.16° W]; 1676 m a.s.l.; 5 Jun. 1922; AMNH GoogleMaps . – Utah • 1 ♀; Davis Co., Farmington Canyon ; [41° N, 111.86° W]; 24 Jul. 1970; G.F. Knowlton and G.E. Bohart leg.; BBSL GoogleMaps 1 ♀; Salt Lake Co., N of Mill B trail, Big Cottonwood Canyon ; [40.64° N, 111.72° W]; 6 Jun. 2010; J S. Ascher leg.; AMNH GoogleMaps .

See also material in Gibbs (2009b).

Description

See Gibbs (2009b) for a complete description and figures of the female. The male has not been described. Some male specimens are located at BBSL, but were unavailable for study.

Range

Utah and Colorado ( Fig. 41 View Fig ).

Floral records

APIACEAE Lindl. Cymopterus Raf. C. beckii S. L. Welsh & Goodrich (G09) • ASTERACEAE Giseke : Cirsium (G09) • Erigeron (G09) • Heterotheca : H. villosa (Pursh) Shinners (G09) • Machaeranthera : M. canescens (Pursh) A.Gray (G09) • Packera : P. multilobata (Torr. & A.Gray ex A.Gray) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve Psilostrophe : P. sparsiflora (A.Gray) A. Nelson (G09) • Senecio : S. spartioides Torr. & A.Gray (G09) • Symphyotrichum : S. chilense (Nees) G.L. Nesom (G09) • Townsendia : T. incana Nutt. (G09) • BRASSICACEAE Burnett : Erysimum L. E. capitatum (Douglas) Greene (G09) • Stanleya Nutt. S. pinnata (Pursh) Britton (G09) • CACTACEAE Juss. Opuntia Mill. O. erinacea Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow (G09) • FABACEAE Juss. Melilotus : M. officinalis (L.) Pall. (G09) • MALVACEAE Juss. Sphaeralcea A. St. -Hil. S. coccinea (Nutt.) Rydb. (G09) • PLANTAGINACEAE Juss. Penstemon Schmidel : P. eatonii A.Gray (G09) • POLEMONIACEAE Juss. Aliciella Brand: A. caespitosa (A. Gray) J.M. Porter (G09) •

Gilia Ruiz & Pav. (G09) • RANUNCULACEAE Juss. Aquilegia L. (G09) • ROSACEAE Juss. Purshia DC. ex Poir. P. mexicana (D. Don) Henr. (G09) • TAMARICACEAE Link : Tamarix L. (G09).

DNA barcodes

Five sequences available (BOLD process IDs: DLII860-07, DLII861-07, DLII1532-09, DLII1533-09, DLII1535-09; BIN: BOLD:AAD3535). Lasioglossum griswoldi differs from all other western red-tailed L. ( Dialictus ) by 2 fixed substitutions: 198(G) and 327(G). It differs from L. droegei , L. petrellum , and L. tuolumnense by an additional 2 fixed substitutions: 81(T) and 387(C) (Supplementary file 4).

Remarks

Gibbs (2009b) recorded this species only from Utah. It was recorded from Boulder County, Colorado, as L. aff. griswoldi in Scott et al. (2011) . A Boulder County specimen has been examined by the authors and seems identical to the Utah specimens.

A few specimens not examined by Gibbs (2009b) from Utah have the metasoma completely black, but are otherwise morphologically identical. These might be a distinct species, but without additional evidence, it seems best to consider them no more than a dark variant.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Lasioglossum

Loc

Lasioglossum (Dialictus) griswoldi Gibbs, 2009

Gardner, Joel & Gibbs, Jason 2020
2020
Loc

Lasioglossum (Dialictus) griswoldi

Gibbs J. 2009: 385
2009
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