Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis
Creators
Description
Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis (Olivier 1789: 64)
Fig. 7
Known distribution. Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Guanabara, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Branco, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, São Paulo), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, México (Chiapas, Veracruz), Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela (Hurd 1978: 79-80). Type locality: “Cayenne” (Olivier 1789: 64).
Material examined. Brazil: Pará: Belém (1 male), Óbidos (1 ♀, 1 ♂), Pará (7 ♀, 1 ♂); Rondônia: Porto Velho (1 ♀), Porto Velho-Abunã Road km 65 (1 ♀). Peru: Huánuco: Tingo María (1 ♀). Venezuela: Ama- zonas, Cerro de la Neblina (1 ♀).
Notes. Females of this species can be readily recognized by the unique transverse carina on the frons which has the median ocellus embedded in the center of the transverse carina. This species is an important pollinator of many tropical plant species (Hurd 1978).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Xylocopa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Olivier
- Species
- frontalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis (Olivier, 1789) sec. Mawdsley, 2018
References
- Olivier, G. A. 1789. Abeille. p. 57 - 84. In: P. A. Latreille, (ed.). Encyclopedie Methodique. Histoire Naturelle. Tome Quatrieme. Insectes. Chez Panckoucke; Paris. 331 p.
- Hurd, P. D., Jr. 1978. An annotated catalog of the carpenter bees (Genus Xylocopa Latreille) of the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Smithsonian Institution Press; Washington, DC. 106 p.