Megachile (Pseudocentron) possograndensis Schrottky

Raw, Anthony, 2004, Nomenclatural changes in leafcutter bees of the Americas: Megachile Latreille 1802 (Hymenoptera; Megachilidae), Zootaxa 766, pp. 1-4 : 2

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158473

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6272723

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F00B4B-FFA4-FFC1-713F-F981FD2BFD9D

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Megachile (Pseudocentron) possograndensis Schrottky
status

comb. nov.

Megachile (Pseudocentron) possograndensis Schrottky View in CoL , new combination

Megachile poçograndensis Schrottky 1902: 438 View in CoL . Female. Type locality: Poço Grande, S. Paulo [state], Brazil, January (Hempel). Type repository: Museu de Zoologia, da Universidade de São Paulo. Examined. [Type is missing left fore tarsi.]

Megachile possograndensis: Schrottky 1913: 172 View in CoL . New spelling.

Megachile (Pseudocentron) poçograndensis: Mitchell 1943: 664 View in CoL .

Megachile (Moureapis) possograndensis: Raw 2002 View in CoL , 7: 25.

The two sexes of this species had not been associated previously. The present combination is based on examination of a series of seven females and three males collected in Santa Catarina State in southern Brazil by Srta. Denise Mouga. Although the bees were not reared from a nest, no other bee similar to them was encountered during a survey which included 115 specimens of Megachile . The female of M. possograndensis bears the slight indentation at the centre of the apical margin of the labrum and narrow sixth sternite typical of the subgenus Moureapis, though the inner angle of the mandible is acute. However the male is clearly a Pseudocentron with greatly expanded ivory fore basitarsi. The fore basitarsi of Moureapis are unmodified.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile

Loc

Megachile (Pseudocentron) possograndensis Schrottky

Raw, Anthony 2004
2004
Loc

Megachile (Pseudocentron) poçograndensis:

Mitchell 1943: 664
1943
Loc

Megachile possograndensis:

Schrottky 1913: 172
1913
Loc

Megachile poçograndensis

Schrottky 1902: 438
1902
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