Genus Anthoglossa Smith

Anthoglossa Smith 1853: 16 . Type species: Anthoglossa plumata Smith 1853, monobasic. Paracolletes (Anthoglossa); Michener 1965: 78.

Geographic distribution: Australia (most diverse in Western Australia, one species in Victoria).

Included species (8): Anthoglossa callander (Cockerell 1915a), comb.n. [ Paracolletes]; Anthoglossa cygni Cockerell 1904a; Anthoglossa frederici Cockerell 1905a (= Lamprocolletes rubellus Smith 1868); Anthoglossa montana (Rayment 1935), comb.n. [ Paracolletes]; Anthoglossa nigrocincta (Cockerell 1914d), comb.n. [ Paracolletes] (= Paracolletes tenuicinctus Cockerell 1914 e); Anthoglossa plumata Smith 1853; Anthoglossa robusta (Cockerell 1929c), comb.n. [ Paracolletes]; Anthoglossa vittata Rayment 1931.

Comments. Michener (1965) grouped Anthoglossa and Paracolletes under the genus-name Paracolletes, as subgenera of the latter. These two groups are superficially very similar, but the first phylogenetic hypothesis to include representatives from both taxa (Almeida 2007; Almeida & Danforth, in press) did not find evidence that they constitute sister taxa. Usage of the generic concept of ‘ Paracolletes s.l. ’ can therefore be misleading for suggesting a sister-group relationship between the two taxa being treated as subgenera in that case.