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Issue: Vol. 2674 No. 1: 11 Nov. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-11-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2674.1.3
Page range: 33–50
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 3

New Afrotropical species of the bee subgenus Patellapis (Chaetalictus) with notes on additional species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

The Natural History Museum, Department of Entomology, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Département Entomologie, rue Vautier 29, B - 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
Hymenoptera new species systematics nomenclature Africa Halictinae Halictini

Abstract

For the African bee subgenus Patellapis (Chaetalictus) five species are here described as new: P. (Ch.) itigiensis sp. n., P. (Ch.) kahuziensis sp. n., P. (Ch.) knersvlaktei sp. n., P. (Ch.) rutshuruensis sp. n., and P. (Ch.) upembae sp. n. The recently discovered female of P. (Ch.) namaquensis Timmermann 2009 is described here for the first time and the nomenclatural status of P. (Ch.) pulchrinitens (Cockerell 1942) is corrected to P. (Ch.) pulchrilucens (Cockerell 1943).

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