Habropoda mimetica Cockerell, 1927

Tran, Ngat Thi, Engel, & Michael S., 2025, A contribution to the knowledge of Habropoda from Vietnam (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 73, pp. 125-152 : 126

Habropoda mimetica Cockerell, 1927

Habropoda mimetica Cockerell, 1927: 15 .

Diagnosis. In both sexes, body robust, labrum with relatively deep and broad medio-apical emargination; mesosoma with yellow-orange to bright yellowish tawny setae except black dorsal medio-horizontal setal band from tegula to tegula, about as long as bright yellowish tawny anterior setal band, and black lateral tuft on mesoscutellar basal border. In females, supraclypeal area with triangular yellowish mark, tergum I with slightly more orangish setae except black setae apically, tergum II black except yellowish-orange setal band apically, tergum III with apical half covered by yellowish-orange setae, tergum IV wholly with yellow-orange to bright orange setae; pygidial plate with lateral margins straight and gradually converging to rounded apex. In males, sternum VII narrowed beyond midlength, at which level lateral ridges small, distal (discal) portion expanded, with broad lateral lobes and thick, curved discal setae in apical third, abruptly narrowed medially post lateral lobes, with slender, rod-like median process bearing smaller setae similar to discal setae; sternum VIII with disc broadly convex apically except medioapically straighter, with some short setae. Male gonostylus double, the dorsal process long, slender, narrowly rounded apically with some relatively long setae and the ventral process narrow truncate, spatular, with short setae along mesal margin and patch of gonotrichia on ventral surface toward mesal margin.

Remarks. H. mimetica was previously recorded in Vietnam by Lieftinck (1974) under H. disconota .