Crocisaspidia

author(s) : Pauly A.
Geographic zone: Africa - Asia -World

Citation:
Pauly A. 2016. Genus Crocisaspidia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Halictidae). Atlas Hymenoptera, Mons, Gembloux. http://www.zoologie.umh.ac.be//hymenoptera/page.aspx??ID=81

Crocisaspidia Ashmead 1899

Africa - Asia
Crocisaspidia spp.
Genre Crocisaspidia ASHMEAD 1899

Crocisaspidia ASHMEAD 1899 : 68. Espèce-type : Crocisaspidia chandleri ASHMEAD 1899, désignation originale.
Le genre est principalement afrotropical (9 espèces), une espèce à Madagascar, trois dans la Péninsule Arabique et une espèce en Inde. Voir clés dans PAULY (1990).
Crocisaspidia amabilis (Cockerell 1908)
Nomia scutellaris var. amabilis Cockerell, 1908b: 85, female holotype (?BMNH) Angola; Friese 1909a: 96, 97, 153, 169–170.
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) amabilis Cockerell: Cockerell 1909c: 419.
Nomia amabilis Cockerell: Cockerell 1917a: 464.
Crocisaspidia amabilis (Cockerell): Cockerell 1931f: 213–214; Pauly 1984c: 698; Pauly 1990: 47–48, 55, 57.
Nomia scutellaris var. fasciata Friese, 1909a: 96, 97, 153, 169, 170, male lectotype [designated by Pauly, 1990] (ZMHB) South Africa; Pesenko 1997: 486; Rasmussen and Ascher 2008: 48.
Nomia fasciata Friese: Strand 1911b: 137; Strand 1913: 136; Pauly 1990: 48, syn.
Crocisaspidia fasciata (Friese): Cockerell 1931f: 213–214; Cockerell 1933g: 131; Cockerell 1937b: 505; Cockerell 1941b: 510; Friese 1941: 98–99; Pauly 1984c: 698.
Crocisaspidia albopicta Cockerell, 1931f: 214–215, male lectotype [designated by Pauly 1990, Pesenko 1997] (BMNH) Kenya; Cockerell 1937b: 505; Pauly 1984: 498; Pauly 1990: 48, syn.; Pesenko 1997: 481.
Crocisaspidia fasciata var. mackieae Cockerell, 1933g: 131, male holotype (BMNH) South Africa; Cockerell 1937b: 505; Pauly 1990: 48, syn.; Pesenko 1997: 486.
Crocisaspidia mackieae (Cockerell): Cockerell 1941b: 510.
Crocisaspidia confessa Cockerell, 1937b: 504–505, female lectotype [designated by Pauly 1990, Pesenko 1997] (BMNH) South Africa; Cockerell 1941b: 510; Pauly 1990: 48, syn.; Pesenko 1997: 486.
Nomia confessa Cockerell: Pesenko 1997: 481.
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Crocisaspidia buddha (Westwood 1875)
Hoplonomia westwoodi (GRIBODO 1894)
Nomia simillima SMITH 1875: 44, pl. II, fig. 4, MMM (nec 1863 !). Holotype MMM : Inde, Barrackpore, BMNH (examiné).
= Nomia westwoodi GRIBODO 1894 : 128, nom.nov. pour Nomia simillima SMITH 1875, nec 1863.
= Nomia erythrogaster CAMERON 1898: 61, pl.4, fig. 10, MMM. Lectotype MMM : Inde, Poona, OUMNH, désigné par BAKER 1993 : 258 (non examiné).
Distribution : Inde.
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Crocisaspidia chandleri Ashmead 1899
Crocisaspidia chandleri Ashmead, 1899: 68, female holotype (USNM) Kenya; Friese 1909a: 96; Strand 1911b: 137; Cockerell 1933z: 182; Pauly 1984c: 698; Pauly 1990: 17, 49, 50, 54, 55, 58, 176; Pauly 1998: 30.
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) chandleri (Ashmead): Cockerell 1909c: 418–419; Michener 2000: 325.
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) chanleri [!] (Ashmead): Cockerell 1909c: 418–419; Hedicke 1931: 35.
Nomia scutellaris var. nigripes Friese, 1904a: 296–297, female lectotype [designated by Pauly 1990, Pesenko 1997] (ZMHB) Namibia; Friese 1909a: 96, 97, 128, 153, 169; Friese 1909b: 128, 163; Cockerell 1935b: 179; Hedicke 1931: 35, syn.; Medler 1980: 480; Pauly 1990: 49; Pesenko 1997: 479, 486; Rasmussen and Ascher 2008: 77.
Nomia nigripes Friese: Strand 1911b: 136–137; Strand 1913: 129, 135, 143; Cockerell 1917b: 45; Cockerell 1932n: 12 [possibly Nomia chandleri, Nomia granulata or Nomia crocodilensis].
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) nigripes Friese: Cockerell 1909c: 419; Cockerell 1917a: 464.
Crocisaspidia nigripes (Friese): Cockerell 1931f: 213–214; Cockerell 1935a: 77; Cockerell 1936j: 27; Cockerell 1937b: 505; Cockerell 1937i: 11; Friese 1941: 99; Pauly 1984c: 698.

On flowers of: Centrosema pubescens, Crotalaria sp., Guiera senegalensis.
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Crocisaspidia crocisaeformis (Bingham 1903)
Nomia crocisaeformis Bingham, 1903: 51–52, male lectotype [designated by Pauly 1990, Pesenko 1997] (BMNH) Ethiopia; Friese 1909a: 87, 153; Strand 1911b: 137; Pesenko 1997: 481, 486.
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) crocisaeformis (Bingham): Cockerell 1910d: 504; Michener 2000: 325 [by implication].
Crocisaspidia crocisaeformis (Bingham): Cockerell 1931f: 213–214; Cockerell 1937f: 281; Pauly 1984c: 698; Pauly 1990: 47, 50, 55, 59.

On flowers of: Crotalaria macrocalyx, Indigophora tinctoria, Polygala petitiana.
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Crocisaspidia forbesi (Kirby 1900)
Crocisa forbesii Kirby, 1900: 21, female lectotype [designated by Pauly 1990, Pesenko 1997] (BMNH) Yemen; Kirby 1903: 251; Kohl 1906: 179; Pesenko 1997: 479, 481, 486.
Crocisaspidia forbesii (Kirby): Cockerell 1931f: 213–214;
Crocisaspidia forbesi [!] (Kirby): Pauly 1984c: 698; Pauly 1990: 47, 50, 55, 60.
Nomia forbesi (Kirby): Eardley and Urban 2006: 165.
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Crocisaspidia maculata (Friese 1904)
Nomia scutellaris maculata Friese, 1904a: 296, female lectotype [designated by Strand, 1913] (ZMHB) Namibia; Friese 1909a: 96, 97, 128, 153, 169; Friese 1909b: 128, 163; Strand 1911b: 136–137; Strand 1913: 129, 135, 144; Friese 1916a: 418; Anonymous 1958: 30; Rasmussen and Ascher 2008: 68.
Nomia scutellaris var. maculata Friese: Pesenko 1997: 486.
Nomia maculata (Friese): Friese 1941: 99; Gess and Gess 2003: 150–151, 315, 356, 361 420.
Crocisaspidia maculata (Friese): Cockerell 1909c: 419; Cockerell 1921a: 208; Cockerell 1931f: 213–214; Cockerell 1932a: 360; Cockerell 1932n: 5; Cockerell 1933z: 182; Pauly 1984c: 698; Pauly 1990: 48, 50–51, 61.
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) maculata (Friese): Gess and Gess 2006: 17.


!!! C. postscutellaris is the male of C. maculata and is a new synonym (both males and females have been collected at Morogoro) :

Nomia (Crocisaspidia) postscutellaris Strand, 1914b: 112–114, male holotype (ZMHB) Tanzania; Strand 1927c: 65; Strand 1927c: 65; Hedicke 1931: 35; Pesenko 1997: 480, 486.
Crocisaspidia pseudoscutellaris [!]: Cockerell 1931f: 213–214.
Crocisaspidia postscutellaris (Strand): Pauly 1990: 47, 50, 51–52, 56, 62.
Nomia postscutellaris (Strand): Pauly 1990: 52; Pesenko 1997: 480.
Nomia pretiosa Friese, 1930: 16–17, 18, male lectotype [designated by Hedicke 1931] (ZMHB) Tanzania; Robertson 1969: 479; Pesenko 1997: 486; Rasmussen and Ascher 2008: 87.
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) pretiosa Friese: Hedicke 1931: 35, syn.
Crocisaspidia pretiosa (Friese): Cockerell 1931f: 213–215; Cockerell 1933c: 376; Cockerell 1933z: 182; Cockerell 1935b: 417; Pauly 1990: 51, syn.
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) postscutellaris var. kilwicola Strand, 1914b: 114, male lectotype [designated by Pauly 1990, Pesenko 1997] (ZMHB) Tanzania; Pesenko 1997: 480–481, 486.
Nomia postscutellaris var. kilwicola Strand: Pauly 1990: 51, syn.

On flowers of: Crotalaria argyraea, Becium filamentosum, Crotalaria virgultalis, Indigofera filipes, Indigofera rautanenii, Otoptera burchellii, Solanum capense, Tephrosia oxygona, Tribulus sp.
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Crocisaspidia marginata Pauly 1990
Crocisaspidia marginata Pauly, 1990: 47, 48, 51, 56, 59, male holotype (SANC) South Africa.
Nomia marginata (Pauly): Gess and Gess 2003: 151, 354, 359; Eardley and Urban 2006: 165.

On flowers of: Crotalaria podocarpa, Indigofera sp., broom.

Femelle nouvelle: Namibie: Eshowe ; Kuzikus.
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Crocisaspidia scutellaris (de Saussure 1890)
Nomia scutellaris Saussure, 1891: 68–71, male lectotype [designated by Pauly, 1991] (MNHN) Madagascar; Friese 1904a: 296; Friese 1909a: 96, 153, 168–169, 311, 460; Friese 1909b: 128, 163; Cockerell 1909c: 419; Strand 1911b: 136–137; Strand 1913: 129, 135, 144; Cockerell 1917a: 464; Friese 1930: 15, 17, 18; Benoist 1962a: 132;
Pesenko 1997: 487.
Crocisaspidia scutellaris (Saussure): Cockerell 1931f: 213–214; Pauly 1984c: 698; Pauly 1990: 47, 52, 55, 63; Pauly 1991: 289, 291, 293, 297, 300–301, 302, 320; Pauly In: Pauly et al. 2001: 147, 157–158.
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) scutellaris Saussure: Michener 2000: 325 [by implication].

On flowers of: Crotalaria micans, Crotalaria pallida, Crotalaria sp., Lonchocarpus
madagascariensis, Papilionaceae.
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Crocisaspidia vespoides (Walker 1871)
Nomia vespoides Walker, 1871: 43, male Type male, détruit? (Eryrhrée, Massowah) (non examiné); Meade Waldo, 1916: 460 (signale ne pas avoir vu le type au BMNH).
Nomia muscatensis Cockerell, 1910:503, female, Holotype female (>, 99-13,A.S.G. Jayakar n27) (examiné) (BMNH).

Visited plants: on flowers of Amioga sp. in Sudan (= Stylosanthes amiga ?).
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Crocisaspidia zonaria (Walker 1871)
Nomia zonaria Walker, 1871: 43, male lectotype [designated by Pauly 1990, Pesenko 1997] (BMNH) Sudan; Bingham 1903: 53; Friese 1909a: 87; Cockerell 1910d: 504; Poulton 1924a: 131; Medler 1980: 480; Pesenko 1997: 479,
481, 487.
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) zonaria Walker: Meade-Waldo 1916: 460; Michener 2000: 325 [by implication].
Crocisaspidia zonaria (Walker): Cockerell 1931f: 213–214; Cockerell 1933z: 182; Pauly 1984c: 698; Pauly 1990: 47, 51, 53, 56, 65, 176.
Nomia lamellata Smith, 1875: 65, 70–71, female lectotype [designated by Cockerell, 1910d] (BMNH) Gambia; Cockerell 1910d: 504, syn.; Meade-Waldo 1916: 460; Hedicke 1931: 35; Pauly 1990: 53; Pesenko 1997: 479, 487.
Nomia (Crocisaspidia) lamellata Smith: Cockerell 1910d: 503–504
Crocisaspidia lamellata (Smith): Cockerell 1931f: 213–215; Cockerell 1933z: 182; Pauly 1984c: 698; Pauly 1990: 18.
Nomia superba Friese, 1930: 16–17, male lectotype [designated by Pauly 1990, Pesenko 1997] (ZMHB) Cameroun; Hedicke 1931: 35, syn. lamellata; Pauly 1990: 53; Pesenko 1997: 487; Rasmussen and Ascher 2008: 102.
Crocisaspidia superba (Friese): Cockerell 1931f: 215, syn.

On flowers of: Boraginaceae, Cassia obovata, Chrozophora brochiana, Cleome sp., Indigophora sp., marigold, sorghum, Orchidaceae (pollinie).
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References

Pauly A. 1990. Classification des Nomiinae africains (Hymenoptera Apoidea Halictidae). Annales Sciences zoologiques, Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 261: 206pp.
Pauly A. 1990. Crocisaspidia (p...). In: Pauly, 1990, Classification des Nomiinae Africains. Partim.
Pauly A. 2009. Classification des Nomiinae de la Région Orientale, de Nouvelle-Guinée et des îles de l'Océan Pacifique (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie, 79: 151-229.