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Issue: Vol. 4161 No. 2: 5 Sept. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4161.2.3
Page range: 193–206
Abstract views: 100
PDF downloaded: 2

Two new species of Neocorynura from Guatemala (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini) with a key to the species known from the country

Entomology, USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Plant Inspection Station, 389 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 2, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA.
Hymenoptera Apoidea bees Central America Sweat bees systematics taxonomy

Abstract

This paper describes two new species of bees of the genus Neocorynura Schrottky from Guatemala. A taxonomic key to all five known species of the genus in Guatemala is provided and the male of N. centroamericana is described for the first time.

 

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