The neotropical stingless bee genus Nannotrigona Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini): An illustrated key, notes on the types, and designation of lectotypes
Author
Rasmussen, Claus
Author
Gonzalez, Victor H.
text
Zootaxa
2017
4299
2
191
220
journal article
32550
10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.2
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Nannotrigona chapadana
(
Schwarz, 1938
)
Figures 5
A, 6C, 7C, 9A,B, 11C
Trigona
(
Nannotrigona
)
testaceicornis chapadana
Schwarz, 1938
: 487
[holotype: whereabouts unknown]
Diagnosis.
This species is morphologically very similar to that of
N. melanocera
from which it can be distinguished by the shorter setae on the antennal scape and the testaceous coloration of the antennal flagellum.
Morphology.
Paratype
worker:
Total body length (not possible to measure); head width
1.96 mm
; maximum width of mesoscutum
1.41 mm
; forewing length (including tegula)
4.5 mm
. Head 1.2 times wider than long; malar area about 0.6 times width of F3; clypeus about 1.6 times broader than long; intertorular distance 1.4 times torular diameter; torulorbital distance 1.6 times torular diameter; interocellar distance 2.5 times OD, 1.1 times longer than ocellocular distance; ocelloccipital distance 2.3 long as OD; scape 4.5 times longer than wide, 1.1 times width of F3; flagellomeres broader than long, except apical flagellomere longer than broad. Mesoscutellum 1.6 times broader than long, basal fovea U-shaped, longer than broad, posterior margin with median emargination, semicircular, about 3.0 times broader than long, tooth lateral to emargination right-angled. Measurements of other structures in
Table 3
.
TABLE 3.
Measurements (mm) of the examined primary (and secondary) type specimens of
Nannotrigona
species (
mellaria
species group). Missing data (broken parts) are indicated with an em-dash (—).
N. N. N. N.
chapadana melanocera
mellaria tristella
Paratype Holotype Lectotype Holotype
Total length of body — 4.35 — 4.80 Width of head 1.96 1.79 2.01 2.01 Length of head (clypeal apex-vertex) 1.67 1.62 1.79 1.79 Length of compound eye 1.27 1.24 1.46 1.43 Width of compound eye 0.54 0.47 0.60 0.58 Upper interocular distance 1.19 1.10 1.20 1.21 Maximum interocular distance 1.33 1.33 1.41 1.39 Lower interocular distance 0.95 0.94 1.00 1.02 Diameter of median ocellus 0.13 0.13 0.14 0.13 Interocellar distance 0.34 0.30 0.34 0.34 Ocellocular (ocellorbital) distance 0.30 0.28 0.25 0.28 Ocelloccipital distance 0.30 0.28 0.25 0.28 Intertorular (interalveolar) distance 0.24 0.20 0.24 0.23 Torulorbital (alveolorbital) distance 0.26 0.25 0.29 0.26 Torulocellar (alveolocellar) distance 0.82 0.80 0.72 0.79 Torular (alveolar) diameter 0.17 0.12 0.19 0.20 Length of clypeus 0.48 0.53 0.46 0.50 Maximum width of clypeus 0.77 0.74 0.86 0.89 Intertentorial distance, width of clypeus 0.54 0.54 0.60 0.58 Clypeocellar distance 1.07 1.12 1.18 1.31 Length of malar space 0.07 0.06 0.06 0.06 Length of scape 0.65 0.65 0.72 0.72 Diameter of scape 0.14 0.13 0.13 0.16 Diameter of third flagellomere 0.13 0.14 0.11 0.11 Length of pedicel + flagellomeres — 1.21 — 1.58 Length of first flagellomere 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.12 Length of second flagellomere 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 Length of third flagellomere 0.12 0.11 0.11 0.12 Length of forewing (excl. tegula) 3.95 4.00 4.40 4.55 Length of forewing (incl. tegula) 4.45 4.45 5.05 5.05 Width of forewing 1.63 1.52 1.74 1.74 Length of pterostigma 0.58 0.58 0.65 0.60 Width of pterostigma 0.14 0.13 0.17 0.18 Length of marginal cell 1.15 1.14 1.25 1.25
......continued on the next page N. N. N.
N. chapadana melanocera
mellaria tristella
Paratype
Holotype
Lectotype
Holotype
Color black, except as follows: light brown on apical two-thirds of mandible; brown on antennal scape; flagellum light brown; bright yellow on lateral margin of mesoscutum, axilla, lateral tooth of posterior margin of mesoscutellum, outer surfaces of pro- and mesotibiae basally, posterior margin of metatibia, except apical half; dark brown on distitarsi, and anterior and posterior margins of metabasitarsus. Wing membrane, veins and pterostigma dark brown.
TABLE 3.
(Continued)
Width of marginal cell |
0.31 |
0.30 |
0.34 |
0.34 |
Length of first abscissa of M |
0.71 |
0.76 |
0.82 |
0.84 |
Length of first abscissa of Cu |
0.84 |
0.84 |
0.94 |
0.96 |
Length of wing diagonal |
0.49 |
0.48 |
0.54 |
0.54 |
Number of hamuli |
5.00 |
5.00 |
5.00 |
5.00 |
Length of mesoscutum |
1.05 |
1.03 |
1.33 |
1.31 |
Width of mesoscutum |
1.41 |
1.31 |
1.62 |
1.50 |
Length of mesoscutellum |
0.61 |
0.63 |
0.72 |
0.74 |
Width of mesoscutellum |
0.95 |
0.97 |
1.12 |
1.06 |
Length of metatibia |
1.33 |
1.33 |
1.52 |
1.60 |
Width of metatibia |
0.54 |
0.56 |
0.68 |
0.66 |
Length of metabasitarsus |
0.71 |
0.68 |
0.84 |
0.85 |
Width of metabasitarsus |
0.36 |
0.35 |
0.42 |
0.42 |
Width of third tergum |
1.62 |
1.56 |
1.86 |
1.95 |
Length of setae on scape, basal third |
0.14 |
0.28 |
0.20 |
0.28 |
Length of setae on scape, apical third |
0.14 |
0.25 |
0.17 |
0.19 |
Length of hairs on clypeus |
0.06 |
0.13 |
0.08 |
0.08 |
Length of hairs on frons |
0.08 |
0.12 |
0.06 |
0.10 |
Length of hairs on vertex |
0.12 |
0.14 |
0.16 |
0.16 |
Length of hairs on mesoscutellum apex |
0.19 |
0.19 |
0.22 |
0.30 |
Distance between apical teeth on mesoscutellum |
0.22 |
0.24 |
0.37 |
0.35 |
Depth of emargination on mesoscutelleum |
0.07 |
0.07 |
0.14 |
0.16 |
Cross-distance of emargination |
0.10 |
0.12 |
0.19 |
0.20 |
Pubescence white, except basitarsus golden brown. Antennal scape with simple, long (equal to diameter of scape) setae along its inner margin.
Clypeus and supraclypeal area with minute, shallow punctures; frons with contigous, coarse punctures as on ocellocular area. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum densely and coarsely foveate.
Provenance.
The
primary
type
specimen and multiple
paratype
specimens were collected by
Herbert Huntington Smith
(
1851–1919
) near
Santa Anna da Chapada
, now
Chapada dos Guimarães
(
Paynter
&
Traylor
, 1991
), in the state of
Mato Grosso
,
Brazil
[
15.46° S
,
55.75° W
].
Smith
was an
American
naturalist who deposited insect specimens from his extensive travels in multiple collections, including
ANSP
, where Schwarz subsequently located, identified, and described this particular species.
Type
material examined.
3 paratype workers
from
Brazil
, “Jan.” [
January
] (one as “Feb.” [
February
]), “
Chapada
”, “
PARATYPE
” (red), “
Trigona
o / (
Nannotrigona
) /
testaceicornis
/
chapadana
/
H.F. Schwarz
” (
ANSP
). The
holotype
could not be located in
ANSP
where it was deposited according to
Schwarz
(1938)
. Additional
paratype
specimens in
USNM
and
AMNH
not examined.
Distribution.
Brazil
(
Goiás
,
Mato Grosso
);
Peru
(
Ucayali
).