New genera of meliturguline bees from Saudi Arabia and Persia, with notes on related genera and a key to the Arabian fauna (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

A new genus of melitturgine bees (Panurginae: Melitturgini) is described and figured from central Saudi Arabia. Belliturgula najdica Engel, gen. et sp. n., is similar in several respects to the genus Flavomeliturgula Patiny in that both have a greatly elongate glossa that is longer...

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Main Authors: Michael S. Engel, Abdulaziz S. Alqarni, Mohamed A. Shebl, Jennifer C. Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-04-01
Series:Journal of Hymenoptera Research
Online Access:https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/32561/download/pdf/