Colletes nanus, Friese, 1898

Kuhlmann, Michael, Schmid, Christian & Wolf-H, 2023, Three new Colletes species from Iran (Hymenoptera, Colletidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1), pp. 37-45 : 41

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10788111

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scientific name

Colletes nanus
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Colletes nanus View in CoL species-group

The new species described below belongs to the C. nanus species-group that is particularly speciose in deserts and semi-deserts of North Africa and the Middle East. It is here diagnosed and compared to its relatives in Western Asia that also have a large roundish male S7: C. arztbergi KUHLMANN , C. fuscicornis NOSKIEWICZ , C. nanaeformis NOSKIEWICZ and C. schwarzi KUHLMANN. In these species males are very similar in outer morphology and differences are mostly subtle. Thus, the focus is here on the terminalia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Colletidae

Genus

Colletes

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