New genera of melikertine bees with facial modifications in Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
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 Zoölogy, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 Street, New York, New York 10024 - 5192, USA (mengel @ amnh. org, sdavis @ amnh. org).
Author
Davis, Steven R.
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).
text
Journal of Melittology
2021
2021-07-06
2021
103
1
52
http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/jom.i103.15655
journal article
10.17161/jom.i103.15655
2325-4467
13146053
Genus
Electrapis
Cockerell
The genus
Electrapis
Cockerell
as currently circumscribed is likely paraphyletic, encompassing a breadth of disparate morphologies. Accordingly, names are applied here to the most readily distinctive groups. Relationships of these taxa to other
Electrapis
or other electrapine genera are murky, and for this reason these entities are retained as subgenera pending further work and more completely preserved material.