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Issue: Vol. 286 No. 1: 5 Sept. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.286.1.1
Page range: 1–4
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of the bee genus Chlerogella from Panama (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Snow Hall, 1460 Jayhawk Boulevard, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7523, U.S.A
Hymenoptera Apoidea bees Augochlorini Chlerogella Neotropics new species taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of the Neotropical bee genus Chlerogella Michener, 1954 (Halictinae: Augochlorini) is described and figured from San Blas, Panama. Chlerogella clidemiae sp. nov., is differentiated from other members of its genus and is the first species with a floral record; captured on flowers of Clidemia crenulata Gleason (Melastomataceae).

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