Lasioglossum (Dialictus) ellisiae Sandhouse, comb. n.

Lasioglossum (Dialictus) ellisiae (Sandhouse), comb. n. (Figures 8A–D) Halictus (Chloralictus) ellisiae Sandhouse, 1924: 11. Ƥ. Lasioglossum (Chloralictus) ellisiae: Michener, 1951: 1113 (catalogue). Dialictus tegularis Mitchell, 1960: 423 (synonymy). Diagnosis. Females of L. ellisiae are unique in having the integument of the mesoscutum (especially adjacent to the parapsidal lines) and mesepisternum smoother and more reflective than those of other species of the tegulare group in eastern North America. The remaining four species each have the integument in these areas roughened and dulled due to microsculpture. Females of L. ellisiae can be further distinguished by the following characters: head and mesosoma primarily bluish-green, paraocular area with sparse subappressed hairs, and inner hind tibial spur with 3 or 4 teeth (not including apex of rachis). Females of L. puteulanum are deep blue in colour. Females of L. lepidii have dense subappressed hairs on the paraocular area which obscure the surface adjacent to the inner eye margin and lower paraocular area. Females of L. carlinvillense have only 2 teeth on the inner hind tibial spur. Males of L. ellisiae can be distinguished from the other species by the sparsely punctate zones of T2 and T3 anterior of the premarginal line. The males of L. tegulare, L. lepidii, and L. puteulanum all have uniformly dense punctation basal to the premarginal lines of T2 and T3. Redescription. Female. Length: 5.25 (4.6–5.5) mm, fore wing length: 3.5 (3.1–3.7) mm, head length: 1.3 (1.1–1.4) mm, head width: 1.4 (1.2–1.4) mm, n=9 Colouration. Head and mesosoma dull metallic bluish-green except the following: mandible base brownpiceous, apex red; clypeus brown-piceous below, golden above; supraclypeal area green below, gold above; antenna brown-piceous, ventral surface brown, F8–F10 ruddy brown to testaceous; mesoscutum green with gold reflections; tegula brown-piceous, central area ferruginous; legs brown-piceous, fore, medio- and distitarsi reddish, mid and hind distitarsi ruddy brown; wing venation and pterostigma testaceous-brown; wings very faintly dusky; propodeum bluer than mesoscutum; metasoma brown-piceous. Pubescence. Head and mesosoma with sparse, erect, plumose hairs (1–1.5OD), longer on metanotum and ventral pleura (2OD); posterolateral margin of pronotum and pronotal lobe with dense, appressed tomentum; dense scopa on hind femur; lateral surface of propodeum with long branched hairs (2OD); acarinarial appressed fan complete; terga with sparse, erect hairs (1–2OD), more abundant on ventrolaterally reflexed areas; T3–T5 ventrolaterally reflexed areas with few, erect hairs (2.5–3OD); T2–T3 basolateral portions and T4 dorsal surface with sparse appressed, plumose hairs; sterna with long, posteriorly oriented hairs emerging from apical half of disc (2–3OD); S1–T4 hairs with long branches. Surface sculpture. Clypeus glabrate except upper margin imbricate, punctures moderately coarse below (i=1–1.5d), fine above (i=d); supraclypeal area smooth and shining, margins imbricate, punctures fine, irregularly spaced (i=1–4d); lower paraocular area imbricate, smooth and shining below, punctures moderately coarse and deep (i<d); upper paraocular area and frons punctures fine, reticulate; gena lineolate, punctures fine and obscure; mesoscutum and mesoscutellum tessellate, shiny between tegula and parapsidal line and posteriorly; mesoscutum punctures fine, well spaced but not sparse in medial/submedial area (i=1–1.5d), dense on remainder of disc and along median line (i<d); mesoscutellum densely punctate with small impunctate submedial area; pre-episternum scabriculous; mesepisternum punctures coarse above, finer below (i<d), interspaces imbricate and shiny; hypoepimeral area reticulate; tegula finely punctate (i=1–2d), central area more sparsely punctate; metapostnotum medial area with anastomozing rugae, median striae incomplete, lateral striations more regular extending onto lateral slope; posterior surface of propodeum imbricate, with sparse, obscure punctures (i=2d); metasoma coriarious; terga with very fine punctures, more widely spaced and obscure on apical half of T1–T4 (i=1.5–2.5d); anteriorly directed surface of T1 and dorsolateral portions basal to premarginal line impunctate. Structure. Face slightly broader than long; eyes convergent below (UOD:LOD = 1.2:1.0); clypeus protruding about one half below lower ocular tangent; distance from antennal sockets to clypeus less than length of clypeus; distance between antennal sockets half distance of socket to inner eye margin; frontal line carinate ending 2OD from median ocellus; OOC less than IOC (1.0:1.2); eye wider than gena from lateral view; hypostomal carinae parallel; mesoscutum length to width (1.0:1.1); ratio of lengths of mesoscutellum: metanotum: dorsal surface of propodeum (1.7:1.0:1.5); tegula elongate with posterior margin angled posteromedially; oblique propodeal carina weakly evident, not contiguous with lateral carina. FIGURE 8. Lasioglossum ellisiae A) face of female holotype; B) lateral habitus of female holotype; C) face of male; D) lateral habitus of male. Male. Length: 4.0– 4.3 mm, fore wing length: 3.1 mm, head length: 1.2 mm, head width: 1.2–1.3 mm, n=2 Colouration. Head and mesosoma dark metallic blue except lower paraocular area and medial areas of mesoscutum and mesoscutellum with golden-green reflections; the following dark brown-piceous: labrum; mandible except apex red; lower clypeus; antenna; tegula except central area ferruginous; legs except medio- and distitarsi brown; metasoma; wing venation and pterostigma brown; wings hyaline except apex faintly dusky. Pubescence. Paraocular area and interantennal area with sparse, subappressed hairs; sparse longer erect hairs on head, mesosoma, anteriorly directed surface of T1 and ventrolaterally reflexed portions of terga (1.5–2OD), longest on metanotum; T1–T4 with short laterally oriented setae; sterna with erect hairs, densest on S4–S5. Surface sculpture. Head and mesosoma smooth and shining; clypeus (i<d), supraclypeal area (i=1–2d), and lower paraocular area (i=d) punctation moderately fine and deep; upper paraocular area and frons reticulate (i<d); gena shining, imbricate-lineolate, obscurely punctate; mesoscutum imbricate anteromedially; mesoscutal punctures moderately coarse and deep, well spaced on disc between parapsidal lines (i<1.5d), closer laterally (i<d) and anterolaterally (i<0.5d); mesoscutellum punctures close on margins and medial line (i

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