Patagoniapis Engel, 2022

Engel, Michael S. & Gonzalez, Victor H., 2022, A new bee genus from the pampas of eastern Argentina, with appended notes on the classification of “ paracolletines ” (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), Journal of Melittology 2022 (109), pp. 1-39 : 19-20

Patagoniapis Engel , new genus

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TYPE SPECIES: Pasiphae cyanea Cockerell, 1915 .

DIAGNOSIS: This genus of three species can be distinguished from Aenarete (supra) by the inner ramus of the pretarsal claws reduced to a minute tooth (not so reduced in Aenarete ), the reddish orange legs, the marginal line of the propodeum narrowly and faintly areolate, and the margins of the pygidial plate comparatively straight.

ETYMOLOGY: The generic name is a combination of Patagonia and the Latin noun apis (meaning, “bee”). The gender of the name is feminine.