Xylocopa ( Neoxylocopa ) orthogonaspis Moure 2003: 71–73

Xylocopa ( Neoxylocopa) orthogonaspis Moure 2003: 71–73 View in CoL

Fig. 10 View Figures 1–13

Known distribution. Brazil (Amazonas, Pará), Colombia ( Moure 2003: 71). Type locality: “Manaus, AM-BRASIL” ( Moure 2003: 72).

Material examined. Brazil: Amazonas: Manaus, VIII.1959 ( 5 ♀) , IX.1959 ( 2 ♀) , X.1959, C. Elias ( 14 ♀) , XI.1959, C. Elias ( 4 ♀) ; Pará: Santarém, VIII.1919, E. M. Klages ( 1 ♀) , VI.1955, M. Silva ( 8 ♀) , IX.1955, M. Alvarenga ( 1 ♀) , X.1955, M. Silva ( 25 ♀) , Santarém, Ulumari, 15.IX.1955, M . O. Silva ( 3 ♀) .

Notes. Specimens of this species in USNM were tentatively identified by Paul D. Hurd as X. ( N.) brasilianorum (Linnaeus) , a similarly-colored species which is otherwise known from localities in southern Brazil which are outside the Amazon basin ( Hurd 1978; Moure 2003). The brief discussion and reports of X. ( N.) submordax Cockerell from the Amazon basin by Moure and Camargo (1988) refer instead to this species ( Moure 2003). The true X. ( N.) submordax was placed in synonymy with X. ( N.) transitoria Pérez by Moure (2003); specimens of this latter species in USNM all have greenish-blue or bluish-violet wing iridescence and are from localities in northern South America and the Caribbean which are located outside the Amazon basin.