Nesting biology, immature stages, and phylogenetic placement of the Palaearctic bee Pararhophites (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

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Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2903

By

McGinley, Ronald J.

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

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1987

Notes

Title from caption.

"December 30, 1987."

"The following subjects are described for the bee Pararhophites orobinus (Morawetz) from Pakistan: nest architecture, egg deposition, development, larval behavior, cocoon construction, floral relationships, and nest provisions. The authors present a cladistic analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Pararhophites with other taxa of long-tongued bees using characters of nesting biology and of larval and adult anatomy. The authors agree that Pararhophites probably belongs to the megachilid lineage rather than to the anthophorid/apid line where it has been assigned in the past. McGinley does not make a formal transfer of the genus now because of the unsettled relationships of the families of long-tongued bees; Rozen places Pararhophites in the subfamily Pararhophitinae and places it in the Megachilidae (new subfamily, new placement)"--P. [1].

Subjects

Bees , Classification , Insects , Larvae , Nest building , Nests , Pakistan , Pararhophites orobinus , Phylogeny

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2903, 1987

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 18700352