Megachile incana, Friese, 1898
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.3.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6493398 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/481E7707-FFC4-4E02-FF5A-F926FCFDFEF8 |
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Plazi |
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Megachile incana |
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incana View in CoL species group
Description: This group is morphologically distinct in the 5–6-toothed mandible of the females ( Figs 7, 8 View FIGURES 6–21 ), and in a number of conspicuous characteristics of the male such as the absence of the front coxal spine and the presence of a large, acute lateral tooth on T6 ( Figs 123 View FIGURES 120–124 , 129 View FIGURES 125–133 ). The group shares a number of common morphological traits with the cyanipennis and rhodoleucura species groups: in the female sex, these traits include the short robust mandible, with surface reticulate and shiny ( Figs 7, 8 View FIGURES 6–21 ); the short and broad, weakly convex clypeus with small preapical medial protuberance ( Figs 7, 8 View FIGURES 6–21 ); and the smooth, simple (non-denticulate) apical margin of the clypeus with apical tufts of stiff golden hairs ( Figs 7, 8 View FIGURES 6–21 ). Traits shared by males are the multidentate, medially emarginate preapical carina of T6 ( Figs 123 View FIGURES 120–124 , 129 View FIGURES 125–133 ); and the erect apicomedial spine of T7 ( Fig. 129 View FIGURES 125–133 ). As indicated below, the rhodoleucura species group appears to build a morphological transition between the incana and the cyanipennis groups. Two species are described here as new and added to the single species hitherto known in the group, M. incana . One of these new species, M. blepharis sp. nov., also shares a facial comb of modified apically curved hairs ( Figs 116, 117 View FIGURES 113–119 ) and an apicomedial protuberance on the clypeus ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 6–21 ) with the rhodoleucura species group and with some members of the cyanipennis species group.
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