Colletes nanus, Friese, 1898
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10414719 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1F72879A-BD47-480E-FF58-FB0A1CB4FA02 |
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Felipe |
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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.
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