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Issue: Vol. 1136 No. 1: 27 Feb. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-02-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1136.1.2
Page range: 39–48
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 3

Notes on the Neotropical bee genera Agapostemonoides Roberts & Brooks and Rhinetula Friese, with description of a new species of Agapostemonoides (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Halictinae)

Laboratório de Biologia Comparada de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa postal 19020, 81531-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia
Hymenoptera new species Halictidae Caenohalictina Neotropical

Abstract

The genera Agapostemonoides and Rhinetula have been treated as containing only a single species each. In this work Agapostemonoides weyrauchi new species, from Bolivia and Peru, is described and the species Rhinetula rufiventris Friese, 1922 is removed from the synonymy of Rhinetula denticrus Friese, 1922. Identification keys, illustrations of male terminalia and record maps for the species of both genera are provided.

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