Aglaocolletes 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 : 36

Aglaocolletes Engel , new genus

ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:A47158FD-CD9F-4320-BB20-773AABABB1C9

TYPE SPECIES: Leioproctus (Leioproctus) megachalcoides Michener, 1965 .

DIAGNOSIS: This is a genus of large, robust bees with metallic olive green integument. The genus has the scape surpassing the level of the median ocellus; a slender, parallel-sided pterostigma; metanotum without a medial tubercle; the basal area of the propodeum shorter than the metanotum and not delimited posteriorly by a carina from the vertical surface; and the metasomal terga without defined apical setal bands but instead with dense, short, erect setae on the discs and rows of longer subapical setae (at the end of the erect setal patches) overarching the apical marginal zones.

ETYMOLOGY: The new genus-group name is a combination of the Ancient Greek adjective āglaós (ᾱγλᾰός, meaning, “splendid” or “shining”) and kollitís (κολλητής, meaning, "gluer" or "one who glues"). The gender of the name is masculine.