Eupetersia lasurea ( Friese, 1909 )

Pauly, B Alain, Lasway, Julius Vincent, Mijai, Ismail, Mshana, Idd & Njovu, Henry Kenneth, 2019, Collecting bees on Mount Meru in Tanzania and the discovery of a new cleptoparasitic species of Lasioglossum (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 84, pp. 1-18 : 6-8

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scientific name	Eupetersia lasurea ( Friese, 1909 )
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Eupetersia lasurea ( Friese, 1909) View in CoL ( Figs 5-6 View Fig View Fig )

Halictus lasureus FRIESE, 1909: 124-126 , ♂.

DIAGNOSIS. This is a beautiful species with metallic blue-green reflections ( Figs 5 View Fig , 6 View Fig ). The species may be identified with the keys of PAULY (1981) for the subgenus Calleupetersia Cockerell, 1938 . It differs from all other species of the genus Eupetersia Blüthgen, 1928 by the completely blue metallic body (legs partly red or head and thorax black in other species).

TYPE MATERIAL. TANZANIA. Mount Meru , 3000 m asl, I.1906, 1 ♂ lectotype and 1 ♂ paralectotype, leg. Sjöstedt ( NHRS) (examined) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Mount Meru, Miriakamba hut, 3°14'S 36°48'E, 2560 m asl, 6.X.2018, 1♀, 7.X.2018, 2♂, 9.X.2018, 1♂, 1♀, 10.X.2018, 3♂, 1♀, 11.X.2018, 1♂, 13.X.2018, 3♀ (RBINS, CAWM). UGANDA. N. Bugishu, 7000-9000 ft, 1♀, 22.XII.1928 leg. G.D.H. Carpenter ( NHMUK) ( Pauly, 1981: 264) . KENYA. Mount Kenya, UTM 37M 0297123, 9980405, 2620 m asl, 14.VI.2010, yellow pan trap, 1♀, leg. Gikungu / Mugambi ( NMK) .