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Issue: Vol. 3626 No. 1: 12 Mar. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-03-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3626.1.7
Page range: 173–187
Abstract views: 27
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A review of the Colletes succinctus-group (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) from China with redescription of the male of C. gigas

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution (CAS), Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China
Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution (CAS), Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China
Hymenoptera taxonomic review bees distribution

Abstract

Four species of the Colletes succinctus-group known from China are reviewed and a key to species is provided. Colletes gigas Cockerell, 1918 is recognized as a member of the Colletes succinctus-group for the first time based on a redescrip-tion of the male.

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