Coelioxys (Liothyrapis) fuscipennis Smith, 1854

Coelioxys (Liothyrapis) fuscipennis Smith, 1854

Megachilidae: Megachilinae: Megachilini: Coelioxys: Liothyrapis

Coelioxys (Nigrocoelioxys) fuscipennis Smith, 1854

INDIA: Chhattisgarh: Somnath, Lakhna, 29.x.2019, 3♀, yellow pan traps, coll. Bhojeshwari Sahu.

Female:
General description: Body length 19.7 mm, black, metasoma tapering through its length.
Colour: Body black, tegulae dark brown, black legs with white to pale white hairs.
Head: Face with white pubescence; clypeus finely punctate, slightly convex and truncate apically; supraclypeal area ridged; coarse punctuation on pre-occipital area; mandible tridentate; eyes bare; antennae black, F1 longer than pedicle, interocellar distance smaller than antennal distance.
Mesosoma: Mesosoma with white pubescence at latero-posterior margin; medio-posterior part of scutellum triangle, hanged posteriorly on metanotum with 2 lateral teeth not reaching to posterior margine of scutellum; fuscous wing, hyaline at the base; tegulae black; claws simple.
Metasoma: Black, with white bands of small white hairs on T2-T5, T2-T3 with deep groove at side; T6 depressed apically with longitudinal carina having 2 subapicolateral tubercle and one long median spine; T5-T6 with black erect hairs on the apical margin; scopa absent.

C. fuscipennis may be confused with many species in the genus Coelioxys due to tapering of the female abdomen after second segment and lack of scopa (Michener 2007) however it can be differentiated with other species by combined characters given above and the T6 of the female which having keel ending in apical spine and with long erect setae lateral to keel (Michener 2007).

India: Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka.
Global: Shri Lanka, Southern Asia, India.

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