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Issue: Vol. 3181 No. 1: 2 Feb. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-02-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3181.1.5
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 24
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the palaearctic genus Dasypoda Latreille 1802 (Hymenoptera: Dasypodaidae) from the Great Rift Valley in Ethiopia

University of Mons, Laboratory of Zoology, 20 Place du parc, 7000 Mons, Belgium
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Department Entomology, Rue Vautier 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Hymenoptera Melittidae s.l. sub-Saharan Africa biogeography hotspot

Abstract

Dasypoda is a genus of solitary bees previously recorded as endemic in the Palaearctic region from Portugal to Japan. Wedescribe here a new species of Dasypoda (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Melittidae), Dasypoda riftensis sp. nov., collected fromEthiopia, Great Rift Valley, Gallo. This species is the first record of the genus Dasypoda in Sub-Saharan Africa and is of phylogenetic importance. We discuss biogeographical implications of the record in Ethiopia.

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