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Holcopasites heliopsis MALE mm .x f |
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Holcopasites heliopsis, U, back, Maryland, Anne Arundel County |
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Holcopasites heliopsis, U, face, Maryland, Anne Arundel County |
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Holcopasites heliopsis, U, side, Maryland, Anne Arundel County |
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Holcopasites heliopsis, female, abdomen, dorsal |
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Holcopasites heliopsis, male, side |
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Holcopasites heliopsis, female, top |
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Overview |
Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1962 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 152.
FEMALE�Length 6.5 mm.; black, antennae brownish, mandibles somewhat ferruginous, labrum becoming brownish-ferruginous apically; legs blackish basally, tibiae and tarsi somewhat reddish, mid and hind spurs pale yellowish; tegulae rather dark along inner margin, becoming yellowish-hyaline along outer margin; wings subhyaline basally, becoming faintly infuscated apically, veins brownish-testaceous to piceous; impressed apical margins of abdominal terga testaceous, discs largely black; cheeks slightly narrower than eyes; clypeus rather strongly protuberant apically, its median length about one-third the distance between eyes below; eyes very slightly convergent below; mandibles slender and simple; basal width of labrum about two- thirds the median length, apex quite broadly rounded, basal half rather strongly carinate medially; basal segment of flagellum slightly less than combined length of segments 2 and 3; scutum with a shallow, median sulcus anteriorly; dorsal surface of scutellum deeply grooved, conspicuously separating the two halves both dorsally and posteriorly; narrow apical margins of abdominal terga abruptly and deeply depressed, basal margins of 2-5 deeply grooved; median length of pygidium very slightly less than basal width, margins carinate and nearly parallel, apical margin broadly truncate; punctures of head and thorax very deep, quite coarse and densely crowded above, becoming somewhat more distinctly separated on cheeks below and on a limited area of mesopleura, the propodeum more irregularly reticulate laterally, posterior face relatively smooth; punctures of abdominal terga densely crowded, discs somewhat more finely punctured than thorax, and impressed margins more finely punctate than discs; tergum 5 slightly ridged medially, this area dull but not evidently punctate, the punctures becoming relatively coarse and deep laterally; pubescence very short and inconspicuous on head and thorax, a limited area of pale tomentuni around bases of antennae, on cheeks above, pronotum laterally, and on propodeum dorsally behind wing bases; abdominal terga 1-5 with a pair each of rather widely separated, small, submedian spots of yellowish tomentum, and 2-5 with smaller lateral spots, the four tomentose areas rather widely separated on each tergum; pubescence of legs hardly evident, extremely short and obscure, apparently entirely pale.
MALE�Length 5.5 mm.; color as in female; cheeks subequal to eyes in width; elypeus rather strongly protuberant, its median length about one-third the distance between eyes below; eyes slightly convergent below; mandibles slender and simple; labrum much as in female; puncturation much as in female; median length of pygidial plate only slightly less than twice the basal width, margins cannate, subparallel, apex rather broadly rounded; pubescence as in female; sternum 7 sub- truncate apically, otherwise much as in illinoiensis (fig. 114) ; gonocoxites of genital armature slightly dilated toward apex, but very similar to iflinoiensis.
DISTRIBUTION Colorado to North Dakota and Illinois, in August.
FLOWER RECORDS � Grindelia and Solidago. Robertson (1929) collected the type series on Heliopsis.
The following is a reprint from
Parasitic Bees of the Genus Holcopasites Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) by paul D. Hurd, Jr. and E. Gorton Linsley from Smitsonian Contributions to Zoology # 114
SERIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
by: Robertson
GEOGRAPHIC RANGE.�Southern Canada (Alberta) and north-central United States (Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, and North Dakota.
HOST.�Calliopsis nebraskensis Crawford
FEMALE.�Head and thorax black, metasoma dark reddish brown or deep mahogany red, apical margins of metasomal terga yellow, orange or pale reddish brown in coloration; antennae, clypeus apically, mandibles, pronotal tubercles, tegulac, and legs usually reddish brown; calcaria pale reddish brown. Vestiture of body chiefly white, mostly closely appressed and forming patches on face about antennal insertions, hind margins of head, dorsolateral surfaces of pro-notum, mcsonotal line, mesoscutum antcrolaterally, mescpisterna marginally, scutellum laterally and mediolongitudinally, metanotum and propodeum at sides, legs basally and on metasoma, especially on terga; dorsal surfaces of head, thorax, and metasoma usually with almost inconspicuous golden or reddish golden pubescence intermixed. Wings feebly violaceous, rather distinctly brownish apically. Length I 5-7 mm. Eyes bare or at most with a few, scattered, minute hairs; face above antennae coarsely ruguso-punctate, neither bigibbosely swollen nor largely im-punctate; antennae with first flagellar segment shorter than combined length of succeeding two segments; anterior and lateral ocelli separated by much less than twice their diameters; interoccllar distance shorter than occllorbital distance; rear angle of mandible well behind middle of eye; labrum longitudinally carinate medially, without a thornlikc tubercle near base, closely punctate on basal half or more, without im-punctatc or sparsely punctate shiny areas basally; ventral surface of head rather closely and coarsely punctate especially adjacent to hypostomal carinae. Mesoscutum coarsely and rugosopunctate throughout, scutellum deeply cleft mediologitudinally to base, prominently bilobed and elevated posteriorly; metanotum without prominent posterolateral shelf�like processes; mesepisternum rugosopunctate, without clearly defined punctures and without shining inter�spaces, without or at most with a small, evanescent, marginal patch of white pubescence; forcwing with second submarginal cell not unusually small, more than one-half as long as first submarginal cell when measured along posterior side; spur of middle leg more than one-half as long as corresponding basi tarsus. Metasomal terga 11-IV (and sometimes V also) basally with two discrete spots of white or yellowish white pubescence on either side of middle, dorsal surface of first metasomal tergum with a quasicrescentic spot of white (or yellowish white) pubescence laterally; apical margin of tergum IV without or with evanescent spots of whitish (or yellow�ish) pubescense laterally; pygidial plate truncate apically, rounded laterally; fifth metasomal sternum angularly emarginate medially.
MALE.�Similar to female in coloration of integu�ment and vestiture. Length 5-6 mm. Eyes and face as in female; antennae with first flagellar segment at least equaling combined length of succeeding two segments; ocelli and rear angle of mandible situated as in female; interocellar and ocellorbital distance about equal; labrum essentially as in female; ventral surface of head rather more closely and uniformly more punctate than in female, otherwise similar. Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum, and wings as in female; tegulae impunctate and shin�ing laterally. Metasomal terga II�V basally with two discrete spots of white (or yellowish white) pubescence on either side of middle, dorsal surface of first metasomal tergum with similar quasicrescentic spots of white (or yellowish) pubescence evident in female; apical margins of terga IV and V without or with evanescent spots of whitish (or yellowish) pubescence laterally; basin of metasoma not sharply defined, punctured at least at sides; apical margin of sixth metasomal tergum not bisinuate in outline, without a well-defined triangular projection medially; seventh metasomal tergum with lateral margins, as seen from above, evenly rounded, not angulatcly produced on either side of pygidial plate; pygidial plate more than twice as long as maximum basal width, parallel sided, narrowly liguliform in outline.
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Extracted from: Robertson, C. (1897). North American Bees - Description and Synonyms. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. Vol. 7. No. 14.
In this excerpt, Holcopasites heliopsis is known as the now synonymized Ammobates heliopsis.
Black, opaque, rather coarsely, densely and confluently
punctured ; face about antennae, cheeks, edges of pleura, sides of methathorax, sides of prothorax extending upon mesonotum, median impressed line of mesonotum ; borders of scutellar lobes and coxae with whitish scale-like pubescence ; abdomen
as long as head and thorax, the latter wider than head, scutellum bilobate ; mandibles, labrum, apex of clypeus, flagellum, tubercles, tegulae, anterior tibiae and tarsi, knees, tips
of middle and hind tibiae, narrow edges of ventral segments
and the apical segment of abdomen ferruginous ; wings subhyaline, apex clouded, nervures and stigma black ; marginal
cell about equaling submarginals together, rounded and
appendiculate at apex; second submarginal cell about one-third shorter than first, narrowing nearly two-thirds towards
marginal, the recurrent nervures uniting with the transverse
cubitals ; abdomen black, apical margins of segments with
narrow fasciae, rufous passing into golden, first segment with
a lunate white patch on each side, 2-5 with four equidistant
subbasal white patches. Length 6 mm.
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