Subgenus Ranthidiellum
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Megachilidae
Name
Pasteels, 1969 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Anthidiellum (Ranthidiellum) Pasteels, 1969: 48. Type species: Protoanthidium rufomaculatum Cameron, 1902, by original designation. [other aspects of type designation discussed in Michener and Griswold (1994)[1]]
- Anthidiellum (Rhanthidiellum) Pasteels, 1972: 102, unjustified emendation of Ranthidiellum Pasteels, 1969.
Diagnosis
Moderate size (around 7–10 mm); clypeus subtriangular as frontoclypeal suture curved upwards; subantennal suture arcuate; eyes convergent ventrally; preoccipital margin round, not carinate; pronotal lobe raised, extended, and lamellated; omaular carina complete to the ventral region of thorax; scutellum and axilla large, margin translucent; propodeum without dimple; abdomen appears oval, shiny with reddish, orangish, or ferruginous extended.
Female: mandible apically broad, about 1.5× wider than base, with four small teeth; hind basitarsus enlarged; abdomen oval shaped, longer than wide, gradually smaller from third segment; T6 margin subtruncate, shield-like; S6 simple.
Male: mandible tridentate, apex not wide as in female; T6 with apical transverse border; T7 short with median spine; S4 marginally with transparent membrane; S5 indented with black comb; gonoforceps bifid.
Taxon Treatment
- Nalinrachatakan, P; Traiyasut, P; Khongnak, A; Muangkam, M; Ascher, J; Warrit, N; 2021: The resin bee subgenus Ranthidiellum in Thailand (Megachilidae, Anthidiini): nesting biology, cleptoparasitism by Stelis, and new species ZooKeys, 1031: 161-182. doi
Other References
- ↑ Michener C, Griswold T (1994) The Classification of Old World Anthidiini (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae).The University of Kansas science bulletin55: 299–327.
