Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 1051 No. 1: 20 Sept. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-09-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1051.1.5
Page range: 55–64
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 9

A new species of Neocorynura from Ecuador (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), with notes on taxonomy of the genus

Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Snow Hall, 1460 Jayhawk Boulevard, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7523, USA
Hymenoptera Apoidea Augochlorini Phylogeny Bee Colombia

Abstract

A new species of the Neotropical bee genus Neocorynura (Halictinae: Augochlorini) is described and figured. Neocorynura miae, new species, combines characters traditionally used to distinguish Neocorynura from its relative Andinaugochlora (sensu Michener, 2000). The taxonomic placement of N. miae in the genus is presented and a revised diagnosis of Neocorynura is provided.

References

  1. Coelho, B.W.T. (2004). A review of the bee genus Augochlorella (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini). Systematic Entomology, 29, 282–323.

    Danforth, B.N. 2002. Evolution of sociality in a primitively eusocial lineage of bees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(1), 286–290.

    Eickwort, G.C. (1969) A comparative morphological study and generic revision of the augochlorine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 48(13), 325–524.

    Engel, M.S. (1999) A new species of the bee genus Neocorynura from the Andes of Ecuador (Hymenoptera, Halictidae, Augochlorini). Spixiana, 22(2), 173–178.

    Engel, M.S. (2000) Classification of the bee tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 250, 1–90.

    Engel, M.S. (2001) A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 259, 1–192.

    Engel, M.S. & Klein, B.A. (1997) Neocorynurella, a new genus of augochlorine bees from South America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 44, 155–163.

    Engel, M.S. & Smith-Pardo, A.H. (2004). The bee genus Andinaugochlora in Central America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 77 (2), 116–120.

    Gonzalez, V.H. & Engel, M.S. (2004) The tropical Andean bee fauna (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea), with examples from Colombia. Entomologische Abhandlungen, 62(1), 65–75.

    Harris, R. A. (1979) A glossary of surface sculpturing. Occasional Papers in Entomology, California Department of Food and Agriculture, 28, 1–131.

    Michener, C.D. (2000) The Bees of the World. Baltimore, MD. Johns Hopkins University Press; xiv+[1]+913 pp.

    Moure, J.S. & Hurd, P.D. (1987). An annotated catalog of the halictid bees of the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, vii+405 pp.