Torocolletina 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 : 18-19

Torocolletina Engel , new subtribe

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TYPE GENUS: Torocolletes Michener , 1989.

DIAGNOSIS: This subtribe includes those South American groups with three submarginal cells and in which the length of the second medial cell is 2× its width or often less (length measured from the junction of 1m-cu+M to the junction of 2m-cu+Cu, while the width is measured from the junction of 1m-cu+Cu to the junction of 2m-cu+M).

INCLUDED GENERA: The subtribe includes three genera: the Chilean Torocolletes , and the southeastern Brazilian Halictanthrena Ducke and Actenosigynes Moure et al.