Ancyloscelis Latreille, 1829

Schaller, A. & Roig-Alsina, A., 2021, A revision of the bee genus Ancyloscelis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Argentina, Zootaxa 4980 (3), pp. 521-540 : 522

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Genus Ancyloscelis Latreille View in CoL

Ancyloscelis Berthold, 1827: 426 View in CoL . Nomen nudum (latinization of french name Ancyloscele Latreille).

Ancyloscelus Berthold, 1827: 565. Nomen nudum.

Ancyloscelis Latreille, 1829: 355 View in CoL , no included species. Type species: Ancylosceles [sic] ursinus Haliday, 1836 View in CoL , first included species.

Leptergates Holmberg, 1887: 224. Nomen nudum.

Leptergatis Holmberg, 1903: 422 . Type species: Leptergatis halictoides Holmberg, 1903 View in CoL , by designation of Lutz and Cockerell, 1920: 592.

Dipedia Friese, 1906: 92 . Type species: Ancyloscelis armatus Smith, 1854 View in CoL , by designation of Lutz and Cockerell, 1920: 592.

Diagnosis. Ancyloscelis contains species 6 to 11 mm in length, characterized by the swollen hind femora of the males and the bicolored scopa on the hind tibiae and basitarsi of the females. The genus Ancyloscelis differs from other genera of Emphorini by the presence of a paraocular carina along most of inner eye margin, the vein cu-v of hind wing less than half as long as second abscissa of vein M-Cu, the broad metapleura, the maxillary palpus of the female with sparse, short hairs, the mandible of the male short and gently curved, the T7 of the male rounded apically, the S7 of the male with a broad disc and two or four small apical lobes, shorter than the disc, and the large, curved male gonostylus, usually flattened and longer than the gonocoxite. Figures of the male hidden sterna and genitalia can be found in Michener (1954), Michener & Moure (1957), and Rodríguez & Roig-Alsina (2004).

The genus is distributed from southern United States through tropical America to central Argentina.

References

Berthold, A. A. (1827) Latreille's … Naturliche Familien des Thierreichs aus dem Franzosichen mit Anmerkungen und Zusatzen. Landes-Industr. - Compt, Weimar, x + 604 pp.

Friese, H. (1906) Resultate einer Reise des Herrn A. C. Jensen-Haarup in die Gegend von Mendoza (Argentina). Flora Fauna, 8 (3), 89 - 102.

Haliday, A. H. (1836) Descriptions, etc. of the Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 17, 316 - 331.

Holmberg, E. L. (1887) Viaje a Misiones. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Cordoba, 10, 5 - 391.

Holmberg, E. L. (1903) Delectus Hymenopterologicus Argentinus. Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 9, 377 - 517.

Latreille, P. A. (1829) Les Insectes. In: Cuvier, G. C. L. D., Le Regne Animal. Vol. 5. 2 nd Edition. Deterville, Paris, pp. i - xxiv + 1 - 556.

Lutz, F. E. & Cockerell, T. D. A. (1920) Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 42, 491 - 641. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 17909

Michener, C. D. (1954) Bees of Panama. Bulletin American of Natural History, 104, 1 - 176.

Michener, C. D. & Moure, J. S. (1957) A study of the classification of the more primitive non-parasitic anthophorine bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 112 (5), 395 - 452.

Smith, F., (1854) s. n. In: Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 2. British Museum, London, pp. 199 - 465, pls. vii - xii