Habralictus ligeus ( Schrottky, 1911 )

Liz, Júlia Alberti de & Gonçalves, Rodrigo Barbosa, 2025, A taxonomic revision of Habralictus Moure, 1941 from Brazil, with description of four new species (Hymenoptera: Apidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 991 (1), pp. 1-53 : 36-37

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scientific name	Habralictus ligeus ( Schrottky, 1911 )
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8. Habralictus ligeus ( Schrottky, 1911) View in CoL

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Neocorynura ligea Schrottky, 1911: 38 View in CoL .

Diagnosis

Females with pairs of yellow dorsolateral maculations on the terga and dark mesoscutum. Differs from similar darkened species by the metasomal maculations, absent in H. beatissimus , and by the mesoscutum disc with homogeneous granulate-areolate sculpturing, not forming concentric patterns as in H. macrospilophorus . Male not known.

Type material

Lectotype

BOLIVIA • 1 ♀; “Bolivia// Neocorynura / ligea m ♀ / C. Schrottky det. 1910// Typus // Coll./ Friese”; ZMB. Examined through photographs.

Other material examined

BRAZIL – Rondônia • 1 ♀; Ouro Preto do Oeste ; [10°43′12.3″ S, 62°15′37.6″ W]; 26Aug. 1987; C. Elias leg.; DZUP 521418 View Materials GoogleMaps • 2 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; 13 Nov. 1987; Projeto POLONOROESTE; DZUP 522353 View Materials , 522354 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Redescription

Female

HEAD. Head medium olive green, with some copper reflections; covered with sparse short white plumose setae. Labrum amber to light brown. Mandible usually yellow with darkened apex. Clypeus not depressed in the middle; olive green, with an apical band brown; covered with sparse short white decumbent setae and with a band of long apical setae; sparsely punctate intertwined with very fine punctures; areolate between the punctures. Supraclypeal area olive green with purplish reflections; puncticulate; areolate between the punctures. Paraocular fovea extends from the base of the eye beyond the antennal socket, reaching inner orbit emargination, always attached to the eyes. Paraocular area sculpturing similar to that of the supraclypeal area. Frons densely punctulate; areolate between the punctures. Gena covered with decumbent white setae. Scape dark brown. Flagellum mostly dark brown, ventrally light brown to yellow.

MESOSOMA. Pronotal dorsolateral angle acute, sometimes with a projected tip. Pronotal lobe yellow. Tegula brown. Wing membrane hyaline. Mesoscutum anterior margin acuminate-shaped; surface with olive green edges, as if beneath the abundant purplish black; covered with very short tomentum and few sparse darker erect setae, more visible from an oblique view; puncticulate; granulate-areolate between the punctures. Mesepisternum olive green; granulate to areolate. Metapostnotum not depressed in the median posterior surface; olive green; entirely areolate to coriaceous.

LEGS. Fore coxa, trochanter and femur brown, tibia and basitarsus yellow. Mid leg brown. Hind leg brown. Hind femur with dense long plumose setae.

METASOMA. Terga dark brown with yellow maculations, as follows: T2–T4 with yellow lateral basal maculations; covered with short decumbent setae very sparsely distributed in T1, which progressively become denser towards T5; lineolate. Sterna covered with long plumose setae, denser and longer in S3>S2> S4> S5>S1.

MEASUREMENTS. Approximate body length 5.88 mm. Head mean width 1.54 mm; mean length 1.32 mm. Clypeoantennal mean distance 0.31 mm. Mean distance between subantennal sutures 0.34 mm. Lower interocular mean distance 0.83 mm. Upper interocular mean distance 0.87 mm. Scape mean length 0.7 mm. Intertegular mean distance 0.99 mm. T1 mean width 1.19 mm. T2 mean width 1.56 mm. T3 mean width 1.63 mm.

Male

Not known.

Variation

Some specimens from Bolivia have the mesoscutum not entirely black, being more olive green. Also, some specimens from Bolivia have a yellow maculation projected upwards in the central portion of the clypeus.

Distribution

Bolivia. Brazil: Ouro Preto do Oeste, Rondônia, Brazil.

Taxonomic remarks

Schrottky (1911) described Neocorynura ligea based on the female sex, and a type specimen deposited in the ZMB collection was recently studied by Melo & Liz (2025). In the same study Schrottky described another taxon from Bolivia, Neocorynura manto ( Schrottky, 1911) , whose type location remains unknown. According to the original description, this is an entirely dark-colored Habralictus , including the head, differing from that of H. ligeus , which has a golden green head.