Revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Austrostelis Michener and Griswold (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Megachilinae)
Author
Parizotto, Daniele R.
Author
Urban, Danúncia
Author
Melo, Gabriel A. R.
text
Journal of Natural History
2017
J. Nat. Hist.
2017-12-11
52
1 - 2
53
71
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1406167
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2017.1406167
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Austrostelis silveirai
Urban, 2006
(
Figures 2
(h), 3(f), 5(e), 7(e), 7(i))
Austrostelis silveirai
Urban, 2006: 47
.
Holotype
male,
Brazil
:
Minas Gerais
(DZMG, examined).
Comments and diagnosis
This species is known only from the male
holotype
and can be recognized for the yellowish ferruginous maculae on head and mesosoma; fore and middle legs with large yellowish ferruginous area; metasoma predominantly black with two narrow yellow spots on disc of
T3
–
T4
and
T2
with shallow and dense punctures on disc
.
Type material examined
Holotype
male of
Austrostelis silveirai
‘Abelhas da Zona
/Metalúrgica
MG
/Pq Mangabeiras/ 0759-1865’ ‘Belo Horizonte
MG
/
Brasil
27/11/1996
/J. Damasceno’ ‘
Austrostelis
?/sp. 01/F. A. Silveira det. 2000’ ‘Holótipo’ ‘
Austrostelis
/
silveirai
/
Urban’.