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- Title
A new species of Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae).
- Authors
Alqarni, Abdulaziz S.; Hannan, Mohammed A.; Gonzalez, Victor H.; Engel, Michael S.
- Abstract
Some bees and pollen wasps have independently evolved simple, stiff, erect, apically-curved, curly or hooked facial setae as adaptations to collect pollen from nototribic flowers. A distinctive new species of Chalicodoma Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau subgenus Pseudomegachile Friese from Saudi Arabia with such morphological adaptations, C. riyadhense sp. n., is described and figured. The species was captured visiting flowers of Blepharis ciliaris (L.) (Acanthaceae). The occurrence of modified facial setae is documented and discussed for the first time in eight other species of Pseudomegachile, and a key to the genera and subgenera of Megachilini currently confirmed for Saudi Arabia is provided.
- Subjects
SAUDI Arabia; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTS; ACANTHACEAE; SPECIES
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2012, Vol 204, p71
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.204.3228