Habralictus Moure, 1941

Alvarez, Leopoldo Jesús, Ramello, Pablo José, Avalos, Adan Alberto, Almada, Valentín, Aguirre, Marina Soledad, Torretta, Juan Pablo & Lucia, Mariano, 2024, Contributions to the wild bee fauna in Argentina (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 64, pp. 1-13 : 6

Genus Habralictus Moure

The genus Habralictus was erected by Moure (1941) to include several species of small halictid bees, with the head and mesosoma metallic bright green to blackish and the metasoma brown or black that in the female usually has yellow basal bands or basal lateral spots on the terga ( Michener, 2007). Two subgenera are recognized by Michener (2007), the monotypic Zikaniella Moure , from Rio de Janeiro, known only from the male and Habralictus s. str. that contains the remnant of the species. However, actually Zikaniella is considered a junior synonym of Habralictus ( Moure, 2007; Gibbs, 2012), and this genus includes 26 species, distributed mainly in the most tropical portion of America, from Bolivia and Parana, Brazil to Mexico, including Dominica, Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; however, several species are undescribed ( Smith-Pardo, 2009; Gibbs, 2012, 2016). This genus was recorded firstly in Argentina by Zamudio et al., (2021), who reported tentatively four morphospecies (one of them undescribed) associated with the palm Euterpe edulis Mart. ( Arecaceae ).