Hylaeus (Prosopis) lionotus (Alfken, 1909)

Allahverdi, Mohammad, Radchenko, Vladimir G., Fekrat, Lida, Sadeghi Namaghi, Hossein & Nadimi, Ahmad, 2022, A checklist of the bees of the genus Hylaeus Fabricius, 1793 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae) of Iran, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (1), pp. 15-34 : 24

Hylaeus (Prosopis) lionotus (Alfken, 1909) *

Material examined: 1♂, Iran, Khorasan-e Razavi, Qare su (36°58′21″N, 59°40′50″E), 10.VII.2018, Leg.: M. Allahverdi .

Redescription Based on the non-type material collected from Khorasan-e Razavi.

Male: Total body length 6.0 mm ( Figs. 2A–B).

Head: Width: 1.88 mm; length: 2.10 mm; Scape of antennae expanded, longer than wide, scape more than 2/3 yellow and black at upper side; Flagellum dark brown but antennomeres III to X reddishyellow at lower parts; Clypeus, supraclypeal and two paraocular areas pale-yellow colored, mask completed ( Fig. 2F); Clypeus with sparse erect light hairs, supraclypeal area and paraocular area sparsely punctuated, punctuation of supraclypeal area surface at lower sides denser than upper sides; Frons punctuated contiguously; Malar area shortened; Gena punctuated and ridged; Occiput rounded.

Mesosoma: Coloration black, except pronotum with a narrow yellow stripe, axillae, tegula and pronotal lobe pale-yellow, scutum and scutellum glossy, moderately punctuated ( Fig. 2B); The integument of thorax completely shiny and glossy; Mesopleura with conspicuously coarse punctuation, total surface of mesosoma with short erect light yellow hairs except propodeal triangle; Propodeal triangle shinyglossy with subcontiguous punctuation and without any hairs and pointed at lower part; Propodeum rugose; Legs black-brown but yellow at basitarsus and basitibia ( Fig. 2A), Wings light brown and venation dark brown.

Metasoma: Abdomen coloration very dark but marginal parts of terga more light-reddish at least ½ of T1 which expanded in middle of disk, and semitransparent light-yellow on other terga with brown-red premarginal line ( Fig. 2E); lateral parts of T1 with distinct long white fringes but in other terga less distinct with short light hairs on marginal zones of terga, T1 and following terga shiny with high subcontiguous coarse punctuation; all terga distinctly, finely and densely punctuated ( Figs. 2A, 2B, 2D, 2); Genital capsule with enlarged gonocoxites, gonostylus elongated and rounded apically with impression at the distal part, and sparse long curved bristles ( Fig. 2C).

Food association: Asteraceae .

General distribution: Eastern ( Kazakhstan) and Western ( Iran – New record) Palaearctic ( Dathe & Proshchalykin, 2018; Ascher & Pickering, 2021).