Megommation Moure, 1943

Gonçalves, Rodrigo B. & Santos, Leandro M., 2010, Notes and new species of the halictine genus Megommation Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Augochlorini), Zootaxa 2685, pp. 57-64 : 58

Megommation Moure, 1943

( Figs. 1–7 )

Megommation Moure, 1943 . Type species Halictus insignis Smith, 1853 by monotypy.

Diagnosis (comparative to other Augochlorini genera). Prementum greatly elongate, more than seven times longer than wide; ocelli greatly enlarged, distance between lateral ocellus and compound eye less than one ocellus diameter; pronotal lobes not angled or carinate; basal area of metapostnotum not striate; inner hind tibial spur pectinate, but with short branches; outer surface of metatibia with patch of black setae.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 3. Megommation amazonicum n. sp., holotype female (1) lateral habitus; (2) frontal view of the head; (3) antero-posterior view of the head.

FIGURES 4 – 6. Megommation insigne, types of Megalopta (Megaloptella) ipomoeae Schrottky, 1912. (4) Paralectotype female, lateral habitus; (5) paralectotype female, frontal view of the head; (6) lectotype male, frontal view of the head. Figures 5 and 6 to same scale.

FIGURE 7. Map of distributions of Megommation insigne (squares) and M. amazonicum n. sp. (circle).