A new subgenus and three new species of leafcutter bees, Megachile (Austrosarus) (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) from central Brazil Author Raw, Anthony text Zootaxa 2006 1228 25 34 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.172711 c8ed6035-374f-4b7c-ae4d-dfc0cd5921a6 1175­5326 172711 Megachile ( Austrosarus ) candanga new species HOLOTYPE : Female. Length of fore wing 8·5 mm . Body largely black with parts of mandible, legs, first metasomal tergite and all sternites dark brown. Pubescence of head and thorax mostly whitish with black hairs across vertex and admixture of black and brown hairs on face and of black hairs on mesoscutum and scutellum. Tegula dark brown. Wings brownish with black venation. Golden hairs on metanotum, sides of propodeum, first metasomal tergite, apical bands of first to fifth tergites, appressed hairs of sixth tergite and the scopa. Mixture of black and golden erect hairs on second to fifth tergites. Length of hairs on vertex and mesoscutum about 3 X an ocellar diameter. Apical margin of clypeus shining and impunctate, the edge uneven and slightly concave, not thickened. Width of impunctate margin twice that of adjacent punctures. Apex of propodeal triangle not reaching propodeal orifice. Apical fascia present on <12% of each side of total width of fourth sternite. The male is unknown. Material examined 8 females . Holotype female : Fazenda Agua Limpa, Federal District, 26.4.1979 , A. Raw leg : Paratypes . A. Raw leg : Fazenda Água Limpa ( 3 females ); Cabeça de Veado ( 1 female ); Centro de Pesquisas Agropecuárias do Cerrado of EMBPRAPA ( 15o 40’ S ; 47o 35’ W ) ( 1 female ). B. F. S. Dias leg : Reserva Roncador ( 1 female ). R. I. P. de Freitas & G.S. de Freitas leg : Cabeça de Veado ( 1 female ). Distribution The species has been found only in the Federal District of Brazil . Flowers The bees visited Eriosema floribundum , Galactia peduncularis (Benth.) Taub. , Stylosanthes guianensis Aubl. Sw. (Leguminosae) and Hyptis villosa Poyl. (Labiatae) . Type repositories The holotype is deposited in the collection of Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras of the Universidade de São Paulo in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil . Paratypes are in the collections of Instituto Brasileira de Geografia e Estatística in Brasília , Departamento de Zoologia of the Universidade de Brasília , Departamento de Zoologia of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte and the collection of the author. "Candango" is the name for a native of Brasília .