Euglossella
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Apidae
Name
Euglossella Moure – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Cnemidium Perty, 1833: 148, nomen praeoccupatum (nec Goldfuss, 1826[1]). Type species: Cnemidium viride Perty, 1833, monobasic.
- Euglossa (Euglossella) Moure, 1967: 401, nomen novum pro Cnemidium Perty, 1833. Type species: Cnemidium viride Perty, 1833, autobasic.
Diagnosis
Mid-sized metallic bees, with rather robust habitus; both sexes with tridentate mandibles and pronotal dorsolateral angles projected as acute prong or lamella (Fig. 3); female metabasitarsus trapezoidal with noticeably narrow distal margin (Figs 26, 46, 56, 65, 74); male mesotibia with two tufts, anterior tuft ellipsoidal, occupying about one-third of the outer tibial surface, posterior tuft rounded in a variety of shapes (Figs 24, 44, 54); male mesobasitarsus characteristically elongate and slender (Fig. 4), distal mesotarsomeres (specially second) unmodified; inner surface ofmale metafemur with ventral margin distinctively straight; male metatibia scalene triangular, metatibial organ slit basal and distal sections separated by a constriction distinctively narrower than width of contiguous basal section, basal section ellipsoidal, distal section separated from ventral margin of tibia by less than its own length (Fig. 6); ventral margin of inner metatibial surface with a blunt projection adjacent to spur attachment; male metabasitarsus roughly rectangular, ventral margin roughly straight in respect to sagittal body plane, appearing truncate and without noticeable projections of posterior margin. Eighth metasomal sternum of male with lateral edges of posterior section deeply invaginated, lobes strongly projected (Fig. 26); posterior margin of apical process of gonocoxite oblique (inner-posterior corner displaced posteriad) (Fig. 30); lateral area of gonostylar process of gonocoxite truncate; spatha surface with longitudinal striae (Fig. 30); dorsal sector of lateral section of gonostylus convex, covered with distinctive plumose setae, gonostylar ventral lobe thumb-like (Figs 33–34).
Key to species groups of Euglossella
Taxon Treatment
- Hinojosa-Díaz, I; Engel, M; 2011: Revision of the orchid bee subgenus Euglossella (Hymenoptera, Apidae), Part I, The decorata species group ZooKeys, 140: 27-69. doi
Other References
- ↑ Goldfuss G (1826) Petrefacta Germaniae tam ea, quae in Museo Universitas regiae borussicae Fridericiae Wilhemiae rhenanae servantur quam alia quaecunque in Museis Hoeninghusiano muensteriano aliisque extant, iconibus et descriptionibus illustrata: Abbildungden und beschreibungen der petrefacten Deutschlands und der angränzenden länder, unter mitwirkung des herrn grafen Georg zu Münster [Vol. 1]. Arnz, Düsseldorf, [x]+252 pp.
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