Donovanapis Engel

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 : 39

Donovanapis Engel , new subgenus

ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:A8F7A703-9E2F-4D8F-BCA2-B118D42CD15B

TYPE SPECIES: Paracolletes maritimus Cockerell, 1936 .

DIAGNOSIS: This endemic New Zealand subgenus is characterized by the following combination of traits: malar space short or linear, at most half of clypeus below lower tangent of compound eyes, the basal area of the propodeum wholly declivitous and not delimited posteriorly by a carina, the inner metatibial spur finely ciliate, the metasoma dark brown to black, metatrochanteral flocuss composed of setae with numerous long branches, male sternum VIII with largely transverse disc and triangular spiculum tapering to acutely rounded point, and gonotstyli tapering to acutely rounded apex.

ETYMOLOGY: The subgeneric name honors the doyen of New Zealand melitology, Barry J. Donovan, and his masterful contributions to the science, particularly his monograph of the New Zealand fauna (Donovan, 2007). The gender of the name is feminine.