de Oliveira Favízia Freitas, Silva Lívia Raquel de Sousa, Zanella Fernando César Vieira, Garcia Caroline Tito, Pereira Heber Luiz, Quaglierini Claudia, Pigozzo Camila Magalhães
Laboratório de Bionomia, Biogeografia e Sistemática de Insetos (BIOSIS), Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia (IBIO-UFBA), Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, número 668, Campus Universitário de Ondina, CEP: 40170-115, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador Brazil.
Centro Universitário Jorge Amado (UNIJORGE), Av. Luis Viana, n. 6775, Paralela, CEP: 41.745-130, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Centro Universitário Jorge Amado Salvador Brazil.
Zookeys. 2020 Dec 23;1006:137-165. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1006.57599. eCollection 2020.
A new species of the small carpenter bee, genus Ceratina (Ceratinula) Moure, from the Cerrado Biome in midwestern Brazil is described and illustrated. Ceratina (Ceratinula) fioreseana Oliveira, is easily distinguished from its congeners by the size of the facial maculations and the honey-yellow color of the legs and antennal scape, which distinguish it especially from Ceratina (Ceratinula) manni Cockerell, 1912, the most similar species in terms of facial maculation patterns. The geographic records of , here interpreted as endemic to the semiarid Caatinga region in northeastern Brazil, are presented, with new records for the Brazilian states of Piauí, Ceará and Bahia. A morphological description of both species is provided, including a comparison with the type specimen of from the state of Paraíba (Guarabira, formerly named Independencia). An identification key is provided for the described species of Ceratina (Ceratinula) recorded for Brazil according to Moure's Catalogue of Neotropical Bees.