A new ground-nesting genus of xeromelissine bees from Argentina, and the tribal classification of the subfamily (Hymenoptera, Colletidae)

Title Variants

Alternative: New xeromelissine bees

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3281

By

Michener, Charles D. (Charles Duncan), 1918-2015

Rozen, Jerome G. Jr. (Jerome George), 1928-

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, c1999

Notes

Title from caption.

"December 8, 1999."

"A new genus of the bee subfamily Xeromelissinae from Argentina is proposed as Geodiscelis (type species, Geodiscelis megacephala, new species). Geodiscelis possesses a mixture of characters from both of the previously recognized tribes of Xeromelissinae. The tribes Chilicolini and Xeromelissini therefore merge and are no longer recognized, the five genera being united in the subfamily without tribal classification. Prior reports of nests of xeromelissines describe series of cells in burrows in stems or abondoned burrows of beetles in twigs. Geodiscelis, however, nests in loose sand, and cells are isolated at the ends of lateral burrows. It is a probable specialist visitor to flowers of Heliotropium, and its unusual glossa may be related to use of this floral resource"--P. [1].

Subjects

Argentina , Bees , Classification , Geodiscelis , Geodiscelis megacephala , Heliotropium curassavicum , Host plants , Insect-plant relationships , Insects , Nests , San Juan (Province) , Xeromelissinae

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3281, 1999

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 43034045