Asciocolletes 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 : 37

Asciocolletes Engel , new genus

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TYPE SPECIES: Paracolletes opaculus Cockerell, 1929 .

DIAGNOSIS: This genus resembles to some degree Ceratocolletes Michener but differs in the weakly protuberant clypeus lacking a shining mediolongitudinal convexity, malar space space present but exceptionally short, absence of apical setal bands in females, the metasomal terga not densely punctate, and the apical marginal zones differently sculptured relative to the tergal discs.

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