Andrenopteryx Dewulf & Engel

Dewulf, Alexandre, De Meulemeester, Thibaut, Dehon, Manuel, Engel, Michael S. & Michez, Denis, 2014, A new interpretation of the bee fossil Melitta willardi Cockerell (Hymenoptera, Melittidae) based on geometric morphometrics of the wing, ZooKeys 389, pp. 35-48 : 39-40

Genus Andrenopteryx Dewulf & Engel gen. n.

Type species.

Melitta willardi Cockerell, 1909.

Included species.

The genus presently includes only the type species, Andrenopteryx willardi (Cockerel, 1909), comb. n.

Diagnosis.

♀: Forewing with three submarginal cells, first submarginal cell largest, second smallest; r-rs long, about as long as anterior border of second submarginal cell; anterior border of second submarginal cell not dramatically shorter than that of third submarginal cell; 1rs-m relatively straight; 2rs-m greatly arched apical in posterior half; 1m-cu entering second submarginal cell near midpoint; 2m-cu entering third marginal cell at apical third of cell length, 2m-cu relatively straight; pterostigma linear, much longer than wide, border inside marginal cell relatively straight; marginal cell with acutely rounded apex, not truncate or appendiculate, apex on costal margin, apical most abscissa Rs relatively straight such that marginal cell apex tapers gradually in width from 2rs-m to apex. Pilosity well developed; flocculus absent; scopa present on metafemur and metabasitarsus; metabasitarsus more than half as long as metatibia; pretarsal claws with minute inner tooth. ♂: Unknown.

Etymology.

The new genus-group name is a combination of Andrena , type genus of the subfamily Andreninae , and -pteryx, meaning “wing”. The name is feminine and refers to the " Andrena -like" venation of the wings.