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Issue: Vol. 5514 No. 5: 1 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.5.2
Page range: 431-450
Abstract views: 127
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Taxonomic revision of the South American subgenus Augochloropsis (Glyptobasia) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Halictinae)

Universidade Federal do Paraná; Departamento de Zoologia; Caixa Postal 19020; 81531-980; Curitiba; PR; Brazil
Universidade Federal do Paraná; Departamento de Zoologia; Caixa Postal 19020; 81531-980; Curitiba; PR; Brazil
Hymenoptera Halictidae Neotropical polychromatism sweat bees systematics Yungas

Abstract

Augochloropsis (Glyptobasia) Moure, a small Neotropical subgenus, is revised, with the description of a new species, Augochloropsis aenea sp. nov., from Puno, southern Peru. Augochloropsis (Glyptobasia) comprised the two nominal species, A. bertonii (Schrottky) with a bluish-violet body coloration and A. chloera (Moure) with a bright green body coloration, both species have coarse integumental punctures and an unusual propodeal structure. We interpret these striking color differences, as a case of color polymorphism within a single species. Therefore, Moure’s taxon is placed as a junior synonym of A. bertonii. An identification key for the species and a distribution map are also provided.

 

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