Habralictus chlorobaptus Moure, 1941

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 : 27-28

5. Habralictus chlorobaptus Moure, 1941

Figs 1G , 10 , 21C

Habralictus chlorobaptus Moure, 1941: 65 .

Diagnosis

This species is easily distinguished by the bright green and polished mesoscutum and metapostnotum (except for few minute sculpturing: widely spaced fine punctures and basal lineolation, respectively). As in H. crassiceps , it has pairs of small yellow maculations on the terga, but can be distinguished from the latter by the green metallic reflections on the metasoma, the obtuse dorsolateral angle of the pronotum and the extent of the paraocular fovea. Male not known.

Type material

Holotype BRAZIL – Goiás • ♀; “DZUP/521300// Goyaz/ leop. bulhões/ XII-1933 / Spitz// HOLOTYPE// Holotype/ chlorobaptus / Det. J.S. Moure 19”; DZUP 521300 .

Redescription

Female

HEAD. Head bright green; covered with short white plumose setae. Labrum dark brown. Mandible usually brown. Clypeus slightly depressed in the middle; green, with an apical band brown; covered with sparse short white decumbent setae and with a band of long apical setae; punctate; polished between the punctures. Supraclypeal area punctulate; polished 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; polished between the punctures. Gena covered with decumbent white setae. Scape dark brown. Flagellum dark brown.

MESOSOMA. Pronotal dorsolateral angle obtuse, or with a rounded aspect. Pronotal lobe brown. Tegula brown. Wing membrane hyaline. Mesoscutum anterior margin rounded, not acuminate-shaped; surface bright green; covered with very short tomentum and few sparse darker erect setae, more visible from an oblique view; puncticulate; polished between the punctures. Mesepisternum bright green; puncticulate and polished between the punctures. Metapostnotum not depressed in the median posterior surface; bright green; mostly polished, except for basal lineolation.

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 green metallic reflections and with yellow maculations, as follows: T2–T4 with pairs of very small yellow lateral maculations; lineolate; covered with short decumbent setae very sparsely distributed in T1, which progressively become denser towards T5. Sterna covered with long plumose setae, much denser and longer than the other species.

MEASUREMENTS. Approximate body length 6.48 mm. Head width 1.7 mm; length 1.4 mm. Clypeoantennal distance 0.26 mm. Distance between subantennal sutures 0.4 mm. Lower interocular distance 0.96 mm. Upper interocular distance 1 mm. Scape length 0.76 mm. Intertegular distance 1.2 mm. T1 width 1.4 mm. T2 width 1.74 mm. T3 width 1.8 mm.

Male

Not known.

Distribution

Brazil: Leopoldo de Bulhões, Goiás, Brazil. A specimen from Argentina, Misiones, Parque Nacional Iguazú was determined as H. chlorobaptus by Alvarez et al. (2024).

Figures

Fig. 1. Details of female head.A. Habralictus beatissimus(Cockerell, 1901). B. H. canaliculatus Moure, 1941. C. H. crassiceps (Moure, 1941). D. H. callichroma (Cockerell, 1901). E. H. ligeus (Schrottky, 1911). F. H. macrospilophorus Moure, 1941. G. H. chlorobaptus Moure, 1941.H. H. obscuratus sp. nov. DZUP. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.

Fig. 10. Habralictus chlorobaptus Moure, 1941, holotype, ♀ (DZUP 521300). A. Head in frontal view. B. Mesosoma in dorsal view. C. Metasoma in dorsal view. D. Metasoma in lateral view. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.

Fig. 21. Distribution maps for Habralictus Moure, 1941 from Brazil. A. H. canaliculatus Moure, 1941 and H. beatissimus (Cockerell, 1901). B. H. macrospilophorus Moure, 1941 and H. ligeus (Schrottky, 1911). C. H. callichroma (Cockerell, 1901), H. chlorobaptus Moure, 1941 and H. crassiceps Moure, 1941. D. H. acuminatus sp. nov., H. cyaneus sp. nov., H. nitidus sp. nov. and H. obscuratus sp. nov.