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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Both sexes of
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can be readily diagnosed by having the mesosoma covered almost entirely with dark-orange pubescence (Fig.
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), whereas in all other species of the genus the mesosomal pubescence is off-white to pale-yellow, which may or may not include sparse black hairs. Females of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">M. braziliensis</emphasis>
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are also unique in having the marginal zone of T6 forming a raised lip (
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: fig. S9E), while in females of all other
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the T6 is entirely subvertical (
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: fig. S9E). Males of
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can be further differentiated from their congeners by having the volsella with a convex digitus (
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: fig. S4A), whereas the digitus is always concave in the other
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(
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: fig. S4B).
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is most similar to the sister species
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Toro &amp; Cabezas and
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(Crawford &amp; Titus), but females of the former species have the gena devoid of tomentum (Fig.
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), while the gena of females of the latter two species is covered with dense pale tomentum. Males of
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have the mandible with a narrowly rounded apical tooth (
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: fig. S15A), thus making them very distinct from males of both
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and
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, in which the apical tooth is broadly truncate (
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: fig. S15B).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Female</emphasis>
(Holotype, Fig.
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).
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Approximate body length 11.0; head width 3.9; head length 2.9; intertegular distance 3.2; forewing length 7.1.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Colouration.</emphasis>
Black, except dark-brown on wing venation (except veins C and R of forewing black), distitarsi, tarsal claws distally; pale reddish-brown on tegula, tibial spurs, tarsal claws proximally, marginal zones of S1-S5; reddish-brown on tarsal claws distally.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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head of female holotype, frontal view
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habitus of female holotype, lateral view
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head of male paratype, frontal view
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lower half of head of female holotype, frontal view. Scale bars: 1 mm.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Structure.</emphasis>
Labrum with longitudinal subellipsoidal concavities. Malar area 1.4
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longer than broad. Inner margins of compound eyes subparallel. F1 2.1
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as long as its apical width. Facial fovea narrowly rounded below, more broadly rounded above. Dorsolateral angle of pronotum obtusely angled. Tibial spurs ciliate. Hind basitarsus 3.6
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longer than broad. Marginal zone of T6 forming a raised lip.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Pubescence.</emphasis>
Head with long, erect, off-white and black hairs intermixed; equivalent hairs longer on vertex; mandible with a fringe of long, pale-yellow setae oriented mesad; clypeus with short, suberect, pale-yellow setae concentrated below. Mesosoma with long, erect, dark-orange plumose hairs; equivalent hairs longer and paler on mesepisternum, metepisternum and lateral surface of propodeum; mesoscutum with dark-orange and black hairs intermixed anteriorly. Legs mostly with moderately long, suberect, pale-yellow branched hairs; front trochanter and femur with long, erect, off-white and black hairs intermixed posteriorly; mid femur and mid and hind coxae and trochanters with very long, erect off-white hairs ventrally; mid tibia with short, erect, bright-orange thick setae forming a longitudinal line along proximal third ventrally; mid and hind tibiae and basitarsi with short, suberect, pale-yellow setae dorsally; femoral and tibial scopae with very long, pale-yellow apically-branched hairs. Metasomal terga with short, erect, pale-yellow setae on discs; T1 with very long, erect, pale-orange plumose hairs; T1-T5 apical bands with pale-orange tomentum; T6 with short, suberect, black thick setae. Metasomal sterna with minute, suberect, pale-yellow setae.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Sculpture.</emphasis>
Clypeus with subparallel longitudinal coarse striae. Malar area unevenly punctate (i=0.5-2.0d); several punctures elongate and poorly delimited; interspaces finely imbricate. Paraocular area finely and very densely punctate (i&lt;0.5d). Supraclypeal area largely impunctate; integument finely imbricate. Frons moderately coarsely and densely punctate (i=0.5-1.0d). Vertex finely punctate; punctures sparser (i=1.0-3.0d) medially, denser (i=0.5-1.0d) towards upper summit of eye. Mesosomal dorsum coarsely punctate; punctures sparsest (i&gt;3d) on mesoscutum medially, densest (i=0.5-1.0d) on scutellum posteriorly, finer on metanotum; interspaces smooth, except finely imbricate on anterior third of mesoscutum. Mesepisternum coarsely and unevenly punctate, punctures densest (i=0.5-1.0d) near scrobe, sparsest (i=1.0-2.0d) towards ventral surface; interspaces finely imbricate throughout. Lateral surface of propodeum with minute punctures; interspaces coarsely imbricate. Metapostnotum mostly smooth, with many short carinae along anterior margin. Metasoma minutely and sparsely (i=1.0-2.0d) punctate; interspaces corrugated on terga, finely imbricate on sterna.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Male</emphasis>
(Fig.
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): As in female, except for secondary sexual features and as follows.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Dimensions (mm).</emphasis>
Approximate body length 9.4; head width 3.6; head length 2.6; intertegular distance 3.2; forewing length 6.9.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Colouration.</emphasis>
Tegula dark brown; metasomal sterna with black marginal zones.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Structure.</emphasis>
Malar area 1.5
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as long as basal width of mandible. F1 1.8
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as long as its apical width. Hind basitarsus 3.8
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longer than broad. S7, S8 and genital capsule as in Fig.
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, respectively.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Figure 3.</emphasis>
Terminalia of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Mourecotelles braziliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">A</emphasis>
S7, ventral view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">B</emphasis>
S8, ventral view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">C</emphasis>
genital capsule, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Pubescence.</emphasis>
Face with mostly pale-yellow hairs, black hairs restricted to paraocular area and vertex. Supraclypeal area, gena near proboscidial fossa and lateral surface of propodeum with very long hairs. Mesoscutum with only dark-orange hairs, black hairs absent.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="211">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Sculpture.</emphasis>
Malar area with convex interspaces. Clypeal striae somewhat finer and more irregularly oriented. Supraclypeal area more densely punctate (i=1.0-1.5d).
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="211" type="type material">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Type material.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="211">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Holotype</emphasis>
♀: &quot; DZUP\ 028459&quot;. &quot;Buschini, M.L.T\ Guarapuava - PR\ Brasil - 22/11/02&quot;. &quot;N. 283 (1)\ 22/11/02\ 30/10/03\ (0,7)&quot;. &quot;HOLOTYPE \
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Mourecotelles</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
\
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Mourecotelles braziliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
\ Ferrari &amp; Melo, 2021&quot;. [DZUP 028459].
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Paratypes.</emphasis>
Brazil,
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, Guarapuava, 24/10/2002, M.L.T. Buschini leg., 1♀ [UNICENTRO]; same data as for preceding, except 22/11/2002, 1♂ [UNICENTRO], 1♀ and 1♂ [DZUP 028460, 028462]; same data as for preceding, except 06/12/2002, 1♂ [PCYU]; same data as for preceding, except 19/12/2002, 1♂ [UNICENTRO]; same data as for preceding, except 11/10/2003, 1♀ [UNICENTRO]; same data as for preceding, except 27/10/2003, 1♀ [DZUP 028465]; same data as for preceding, except 18/12/2003, 1♀ [PCYU], 1♀ [DZUP 028461]; same data as for preceding, except 19/10/2005, 2♂ [DZUP 028463, 028464]; Brazil,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Paraná">Parana</normalizedToken>
, Palmas, 18/11/2009, G. Melo, K. Ramos &amp; V. Kanamura leg., 1♀ and 1♂ [DZUP 028395, 028468]; Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande, 11/2004, FURG leg., 1♀ and 1♂ [DZUP 028466, 028467].
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="211" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="211">
The only species of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Mourecotelles</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
currently known to occur in Brazil.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="211" type="comments">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="211">
The species described herein has been referred to in several previous publications, including
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2005059" author="Buschini, MLT" journalOrPublisher="Apidologie" pageId="0" pageNumber="211" pagination="58 - 66" refId="B15" refString="Buschini, MLT, 2006. Species diversity and community structure in trap-nesting bees in Southern Brazil. Apidologie 37: 58 - 66, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2005059" title="Species diversity and community structure in trap-nesting bees in Southern Brazil." url="https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2005059" volume="37" year="2006">Buschini (2006)</bibRefCitation>
(as
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" class="Insecta" family="Colletidae" genus="Colletes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Colletes" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Colletes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp.),
<bibRefCitation author="Diniz, MER" journalOrPublisher="Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology" pageId="0" pageNumber="211" refId="B24" refString="Diniz, MER, Buschini, MLT, 2009. Biologia de nidificacao de Rhynchocolletes sp. (Hymenoptera; Apoidea; Colletidae; Colletinae). Anais do IX Congresso de Ecologia do Brasil, Sao Lourenco (Brazil), September 2009. Sociedade de Ecologia do Brasil, Sao Paulo, 1-2." title="Biologia de nidificacao de Rhynchocolletes sp. (Hymenoptera; Apoidea; Colletidae; Colletinae). Anais do IX Congresso de Ecologia do Brasil, Sao Lourenco (Brazil), September 2009. Sociedade de Ecologia do Brasil, Sao Paulo, 1 - 2." year="2009">Diniz and Buschini (2009)</bibRefCitation>
(as
<taxonomicName authorityName="Moure" authorityYear="1943" class="Insecta" family="Colletidae" genus="Rhynchocolletes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Rhynchocolletes" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Rhynchocolletes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp.),
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12333" author="Almeida, EAB" journalOrPublisher="Zoologica Scripta" pageId="0" pageNumber="211" pagination="226 - 242" refId="B6" refString="Almeida, EAB, Packer, L, Melo, GAR, Danforth, BN, Cardinal, SC, Quinteiro, FB, Pie, MR, 2019. The diversification of neopasiphaeine bees during the Cenozoic (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Zoologica Scripta 48: 226 - 242, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12333" title="The diversification of neopasiphaeine bees during the Cenozoic (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12333" volume="48" year="2019">Almeida et al. (2019)</bibRefCitation>
(as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Mourecotelles</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp.) and
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(as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="211">Mourecotelles</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp.1).
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