Tetraglossula anthracina

Tetraglossula anthracina (Michener, 1989) (Figures 2, 3, 14 A–D, 15A–C, 16A, 17A,E, 18A,B) Leioproctus (Tetraglossula) anthracinus Michener, 1989, 696. Type depository: holotype SEMC ♂ (examined); type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, São Carlos; paratypes SEMC ♀ ♂, paratypes DZUP ♀ ♂. Tetraglossula anthracina; generic combination by Moure, Graf & Urban 1999. Diagnosis. Distinguished by overall dark color, fuscous wings and relatively large body size (length usually 10–12 mm). Pubescence of mesosoma dark brown to dusky (in other species pale yellow or light brown). Setae on hind tibial scopa of the female simple or bifurcated (multiple branches, when present, restricted to the portion near basitibial plate); metasoma blackish generally with subtle whitish and light blue hues; the relatively broad impunctate band on marginal area of T1 (wider than one flagellar diameter); punctation on disc of T1 of female minute and very sparse, with few coarser punctures intermixed. In many, but not all specimens studied, the clypeus has a distinctive impunctate median longitudinal band (slender than flagellar diameter, but noticeable when present). Male genitalia and hidden sterna S6–S8: Figs 14 A–D, 15A–C. Michener (1989, 696) remarked that hidden sterna and genitalia of T. anthracina and T. fucosa were similar, therefore he only presented illustrations of the male S7, S8 and genitalia of the latter (Michener 1989, Fig. 13 A–I). Basal lobe of S7 (Fig. 14 C) broad, pilose, and trapezoid, partly superposed with the apical lobe; medial sclerotized region positioned proximally to apical and basal lobes of S7 unique in shape and very long in comparison with other species (Fig. 14 F,J,N,S). Apical lobe of S8 subequal to disc in profile (Fig. 14 D). Distribution (Fig. 19): BRAZIL: Distrito Federal [MOURE], Goiás [MOURE], Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte [UFMG:10], Gonçalves [UFMG:2], Ouro Preto [UFMG:1], Sabará [UFMG:4], Santana do Riacho [UFMG:9]), Paraná (Curitiba [RPSP:1, SEMC:4]), Rio Grande do Sul (São Francisco de Paula [RPSP:3]), São Paulo (Barueri [MZUSP:1], Botucatu [MZUSP:1], Campos do Jordão [MZUSP:1], Garça [MZUSP:1], Itirapina [RPSP:7], São Carlos [BBSL:2, SEMC:9]). In addition to information obtained from specimens examined during this study, the above distribution records include additional state-level data from the Moure Catalogue of Neotropical Bees (Moure et al. 2012), listed as ‘MOURE’. Additional comments. Four nuclear gene loci of Tetraglossula anthracina were sequenced for the phylogenetic study of Almeida and Danforth (2009) and are available in GenBank: elongation factor 1 alpha (F2 copy), LW-rhodopsin, wingless, and 28S rRNA (accession numbers: DQ884591, DQ884498, DQ884737, DQ768480).
Published as part of Almeida, Eduardo A. B. & Gibran, Nadia S., 2017, Taxonomy of neopasiphaeine bees: review of Tetraglossula Ogloblin, 1948 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), pp. 521-544 in Zootaxa 4303 (4) on pages 527-529, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/841526
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