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Issue: Vol. 2261 No. 1: 9 Oct. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-10-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2261.1.3
Page range: 39–51
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 6

A revision of the Southern African species of Meliturgula Friese (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Panurginae)

Agricultural Research Council, Plant Protection Research Institute, Private Bag x134, Queenswood, 0121, South Africa/ School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, P. Bag X01 Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa
Hymenoptera bee Apoidea new species Meliturgula bonheimi

Abstract

Nine species of Meliturgula are known from southern Africa. This includes Meliturgula bonheimi sp. nov., which is here described as new from Namibia. A key to the southern African species is given to facilitate identification.

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