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Issue: Vol. 3889 No. 3: 2 Dec. 2014
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2014-12-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.7
Page range: 447–450
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 3

Description of two new cases of gynandromorphism in Paratrigona Schwarz and Augochlora Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae and Halictidae)

División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina CONICET, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.
CONICET, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina CIC, Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas
CONICET, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.
Anthophila Gynandromorph Stingless bees Sweat bees Argentina

Abstract

Two new records of gynandromorphism in bees are described and illustrated for Paratrigona glabella and Augochlora amphitrite. The specimens show a mixture of male and female features, complete in Augochlora and on head and mesosoma in Paratrigona. Including the specimen described herein, gynandromorphs are now known for a total of three species in Meliponini bees and three species in Augochlorini bees.