Palaearctic Osmia bees of the subgenera Hemiosmia, Tergosmia and Erythrosmia (Megachilidae, Osmiini): biology, taxonomy and key to species
Author
Müller, Andreas
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-05-14
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.1
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Osmia difficilis
species group
The species of the
O. difficilis
species group differ from those of the
O. uncicornis
species group in both sexes by the whitish tergal pilosity, in the female sex by the clubbed hairs on the fore tarsus and in the male sex by the normal shape of antennal flagellum, midleg and sterna, the trifid tergum 6 with strong median projection (
Fig. 7
), the evenly rounded apical margin of tergum 7, the lack of hooked or curved bristles on sterna 4 and 6 and the spatulate apex of the gonoforceps.