First Description of Male of Megachile (Pseudocentron) Gomphrenoides Vachal and Redescription of Female (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)

Silvana P. Durante; Juan Pablo Torretta

doi:10.3157/061.136.0304

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Silvana P. Durante,¹ Juan Pablo Torretta²

¹[SPD] División Entomologia, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900, La Plata, Argentina, e-mail: sdurante@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar
²[JPT] Cátedra de Botánica Agrícola. Facultad de Agronomía, UBA. Av. San Martín 4453 Buenos Aires, Argentina, e-mail: torreta@agro.uba.ar

Abstract

Megachile is one of the largest genus of the family Megachilidae widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas of the world. Megachile (Pseudocentron) gomphrenoides was described by Vachal (1908) based on three female collected in Buenos Aires. Recently in a work about nest building of bees, we obtained females and males of this species in trap-nest. In this paper, the original description of the female is enlarged and the first description of the male is provided. Additionally, floral host and new record geographical are presented.

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Silvana P. Durante and Juan Pablo Torretta "First Description of Male of Megachile (Pseudocentron) Gomphrenoides Vachal and Redescription of Female (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)," Transactions of the American Entomological Society 136(3 4), 235-240, (1 December 2010). https://doi.org/10.3157/061.136.0304

Published: 1 December 2010

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