Corresponding author: Victor H. Gonzalez (
Academic editor: Michael Engel
As part of ongoing investigations on anthidiine bees, the type of
The Neotropical anthidiine bee genus
As part of a revision of
Subgenera of
Subgenus | Number of included species |
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7 | |
4 | |
1 | |
8 | |
1 | |
10 | |
2 | |
3 | |
6 | |
9 |
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Male holotype of
This species can be easily separated from
Male: Body length, 8.2mm; forewing length, 5.5 mm.
Head ferruginous including antennal scape and pedicel except: dark reddish brown on mandible, inferior gena and distal flagellomeres; black on labrum, ocellar and torular areas; yellow on clypeus and inferior paraocular area. Mesosoma black except: ferruginous on tegula and legs excluding coxae (trochanters and femora variably darkened); yellow on pronotal lobe, tegula anteriorly, scutum on anterior and lateral margins, axilla, scutellum on distal margin, coxae. Metasoma dark reddish brown, lighter on sterna except T1, T3, T5, T7 and S2–S4 each with complete yellow band, remaining terga maculate laterally. Wings brownish, darker on anterior margin including marginal cell; veins, stigma and prestigma dark brown.
Pubescence whitish except yellowish on inner surfaces of tarsi; hairs long, dense, distinctly plumose on paraocular area, pronotal lobe, mesepisternum and metepisternum ventrally, lateral surface of propodeum, inferior margin of fore femur, premarginal areas of S2–S4; hind coxa with distinct row of stout black hairs medially on ventral surface (
Head and mesosoma including coxae, anterior surfaces of hind trochanter and femur coarsely punctate, punctures about one-fourth to one-third width of median ocellus except finely punctate on pronotum, omaulus, metepisternum, most of propodeum and remainder of legs; terga as coarsely punctate as scutum with wide, impunctate, translucent, apical margins on T1–T6.
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Both males and females of this species have been collected on flowers of
Male of
We are grateful to Frank Koch and Viola Richter (ZMB) for kindly arranging the loan of the type of