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Issue: Vol. 1444 No. 1: 9 Apr. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-04-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1444.1.5
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

Phylogenetic analysis of the bee genus Capicola with the description of Capicola hantamensis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Dasypodaidae)

Université de Mons-Hainaut, Laboratoire de Zoologie, Pentagone, Avenue du Champs de Mars, 6, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
Institute of Landscape-Ecology, University of Münster, Robert-Koch-Str. 26, D-48149 Münster, Germany
Hymenoptera Dasypodaidae Capicola new species South Africa

Abstract

The genus Capicola Friese is one of the 8 genera included in the Dasypodaidae. Capicola contains 13 species (including the new species C. hantamensis sp. nov.) restricted to the xeric part of south-western Africa. New cladistic analysis and description of C. hantamensis sp. nov. complete the recent monographic revision of this genus (Michez et al. 2007) and demonstrate that the new species is the sister of all other Capicola.

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