Notes on family-group names for bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) Author Engel, Michael S. Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive - Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 - 4415, USA (msengel @ ku. edu). & Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West text Journal of Melittology 2015 2015-03-13 2015 46 1 7 http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/jom.v0i46.4839 journal article 10.17161/jom.v0i46.4839 2325-4467 13145840 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0626B747-69EF-4C66-A9C5-A2EEB29187C1 Eremaphantella Engel , new subgenus ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 105E4072-28D6-4355-87AA-477C63CA22D1 TYPE SPECIES : Eremaphanta iranica Schwammberger, 1971 . DIAGNOSIS: Head broader than long; vertex gently to weakly convex, scarcely above level of summits of compound eyes; maxillary blade over three times width; mesosoma black, without yellow markings laterally or dorsally; pretarsal claws cleft; metasomal terga I– V with apical bands of dense white setae, less well developed in male (interrupted), terga I–III with similar pubescence basally. ETYMOLOGY: The new subgeneric name is a combination of the diminutive suffix – ella and the parent genus, Eremaphanta (itself a combination of the Greek words, eremia , meaning “desert”, and aphantos , meaning “unseen”). The gender of the name is feminine. INCLUDED SPECIES : Presently the subgenus includes only the type species, which occurs in Iran , the United Arab Emirates , and Oman ( Schwammberger , 1971; Michez & Patiny , 2006; Dathe , 2009). COMMENT: Michez & Patiny (2006) mentioned the absence of tergal setal bands for E . iranica but these are present at least laterally in the male (Schwammberger, 1971) and are complete in the female (Dathe, 2009).