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