Punctation on discal base of T 1 sparse, with large elongated punctures on distal part of T 1 and T 2 – T 4 dense, comprised of small (0.025 mm diameter) circular punctures on T 5 – T 6 dense, with medium-sized elongated punctures (0.06 x 0.03 mm) on T 7 dense, with large elongated punctures (0.1 x 0.05 mm) S 2 with two short and shallow semicircular depressions with setae, forming circular tufts widely separated, and integument between both tufts fairly plain (Figure 3 A).
Foretibia and forebasitarsus fringed with medium-sized (up to 0.8 mm), dense, fulvous hairs velvet area occupying the entire ventral side of mesotibia, posterior mesotibial tuft small (about 1 / 4 of the size of anterior tuft), subtrapezoid anterior mesotibial tuft large, subcylindrical (Figure 2 E) metatibia triangular, acute, post-glandular area fringed with long hairs (up to 1.00 mm) (Figure 2 G). 7.0 mm longer than body tip) scutellum 2.4 - mm wide and 1.2 - mm long very minute (0.04 mm in diameter) circular punctures on scutum, separated from each other by at least a puncture-diameter punctures on scutellum of different sizes, from very minute (0.01 mm) to medium-sized (0.1 mm), sparser than on mesoscutum abdominal width 4.2 mm.
9.0 mm extended tongue exceeding body length (ca. Width 4.4 mm interorbital distance at level of antennal sockets 2.3 mm maximum interorbital distance 2.4 mm scape 0.8 mm eye length 2.9 mm, mandible with two teeth. Ivory paraocular markings well developed, reaching malar area anterior surface of antennal scape with a small ivory spot occupying about 1 / 3 of its length (Figure 2 C). Gena with long (1.5 mm) white bristles only fulvous hairs on antennal sockets black setae on upper frons and top of head overall pubescence very sparse, fulvous and black hairs evenly distributed on mesosoma, predominantly black setae on scutellum, very sparse, blackish setae on T 1 – T 7 and sparse fulvous setae on S 1 – S 6. Clypeus greenish blue, rest of head bright green (Figure 2 C) mesosoma greenish blue (Figure 2 A) T 1 – T 2 bluish green (Figure 2 A), T 3 – T 7 plain green, metatibia bluish green (Figure 2 G).
Orchid bees are a beautiful, but poorly understood type of bee, that collect all sorts of chemicals that they then use to attract females. Here’s every time Sheldon said “bazinga” from seasons one through four: Sheldon Cooper has also an asteroid named after him (246247 Sheldoncooper). has tricked us for some time due to its similarity to E. Sheldon Cooper’s favorite comic word “bazinga”, used by him when tricking somebody, was here chosen to represent the character.
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The specific epithet honors the clever, funny, captivating “nerd” character Sheldon Cooper, brilliantly portrayed by the North American actor James Joseph “Jim” Parsons on the CBS TV show “The Big Bang Theory”. Andre Nemesio, from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, in Brazil, went for something a bit different: he and his team just named a brand new orchid bee Euglossa bazinga, after the catch phrase used by Sheldon Cooper on the television show “The Big Bang Theory.” What do you do when you have to name a brand new species? Some opt for using some defining physical feature.
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