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Issue: Vol. 3218 No. 1: 1 Mar. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-03-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3218.1.6
Page range: 59–68
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Bathanthidium Mavromoustakis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae: Anthidiini) from China, with a key to the species

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution (CAS), Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution (CAS), Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution (CAS), Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China
Hymenoptera Apoidea bee Megachilinae taxonomy description

Abstract

Bathanthidium hainanense sp. nov. from Wuzhi Mountain, Hainan, China is described and illustrated. A key to the eightspecies of the genus is presented. Bathanthidium (B.) circinatum Wu, 2004 is transferred to the subgenus B. (Stenanthi- diellum), new comb.

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