Spinolapina 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 : 19

Spinolapina Engel , new subtribe

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TYPE GENUS: Spinolapis Moure , 1951.

DIAGNOSIS: This subtribe includes three genera in which the body is metallic bluish or greenish with two submarginal cells. In addition, the pretarsal claws are quite variable, but typically simple or with the inner rami reduced to small teeth (although in one genus, Aenarete , the inner rami are not so reduced). The margin of metasomal sternum VI of the male is produced midapically as a rounded setose lobe about one-third as wide as the sternum, and is notched medially.

INCLUDED GENERA: The lineage includes three genera: the Chilean Spinolapis , and the Argentinian Patagoniapis , n. gen. (infra), and Aenarete , n. gen. (supra).