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Issue: Vol. 1298 No. 1: 17 Aug. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-08-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1298.1.3
Page range: 29–36
Abstract views: 106
PDF downloaded: 3

Euglossa natesi n. sp., a new species of orchid bee from the Chocó region of Colombia and Ecuador (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Abejas LABUN, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá
Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá
Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Hymenoptera Orchid bee Euglossini Colombia Ecuador Andes Chocó Region endemism Euglossa Glossura Glossurella genitalia

Abstract

A new species of orchid bee in the genus Euglossa is here described. Euglossa natesi n. sp. ParraH, Ospina-Torres & Ramírez has been collected from the Pacific Andean foothills of Colombia and Ecuador. Euglossa natesi n. sp. has no obvious close relatives, and while most morphological characters suggest that it belongs to the subgenus Glossura, a few characters indicate that it belongs to the subgenus Glossurella.

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