Lithurgus (Lithurgus s.str.) sp. 2

Scientific Name
Lithurgus (Lithurgus s.str.) sp. 2
Taxonomic Placement
Hymenoptera: Lithurginae: Lithurgini: Lithurgus: Lithurgus s.str.
Material examined
INDIA: Chhattisgarh: Semariya, 17.iii.2020, 1♀, Yellow pan traps, coll. Bhojeshwari Sahu.
Brief diagnosis
Female:
General description: Body length 10.52 mm.
Colour: Body black with white shiny pubescence on face, yellowish pubescence on clypeus, metasomal segments with apical bands of pale white pubescence.
Head: Head as broad as thorax, roughly punctate; Face with white pubescence, clypeus with pale white pubescence and basally produced into a prominent triangular raised portion, transverse shiny impunctate line medially; mandible tridentate; antennae black at base and fuscous at apex, pedicel is smaller than F1; inter-antennal distance is smaller than inter-ocellar distance.
Mesosoma: Rough, coarsely punctate, scattered pale white pubescence on the side of the mesosoma; tegulae dark brown; scutum bare and rough; scutellum ridged, roughly punctate with pale white pubescence posteriorly; wing sub hyaline; legs black, fore and mid legs with white fasciae, hind tarsus with fuscous brown hairs; fore and mid tibia with two rows of tubercles, hind tibia with coarse tubercles that do not end in bristles, claws simple, brown in colour.
Metasoma: T1-T5 shiny black with fine white pubescence at the apex, finely punctate, each side of T5 with sparse black erect hairs, T6 covered with black dense erect hairs; golden yellow scopa on S2-S5 with tiny white hairs beneath scopa; S8 with 2 lateral spines.
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Dorsal view
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Ventral view
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Lateral view
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Head
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Hind Leg
Comments
This species has similarity with Lithurgus sp. 1 by body colour and tubercle bands on tibia but found differ in following characters: female of Lithurgus sp. 2 has golden sternal scopa which is pale white in Lithurgus sp. 1; metasomal pubescent band is very fine in Lithurgus sp. 2 as compared to Lithurgus sp. 1.
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