Mourecotelles, TORO & CABEZAS, 1977

Ferrari, Rafael R & Packer, Laurence, 2021, Morphological phylogeny and review of the generic classification of Colletinae (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 (1), pp. 199-216 : 211

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https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa128

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5309789

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scientific name

Mourecotelles
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MOURECOTELLES TORO & CABEZAS, 1977 View in CoL

( FIGS 1C, 1D View Figure 1 )

Type species: Mourecotelles mixta Toro & Cabezas, 1977 .

Diagnosis: Mandible with a broadly truncate preapical tooth (this study; Supporting Information, Fig. S6D View Figure 6 ) is sufficient to distinguish the females of Mourecotelles from those of the other genera of Colletinae , in which the preapical tooth is narrowly rounded (Supporting Information, Fig. S6C View Figure 6 ). The males of Mourecotelles can be diagnosed through the combination of mandible with apical tooth only slightly longer than preapical one (this study; Supporting Information, Fig. S15B) and T6 marginal zone not covered with pale tomentum (this study) [mandible with apical tooth distinctly longer than preapical one (Supporting Information, Fig. S15A) in both Colletes and Hemicotelles and T6 marginal zone covered with tomentum in Xanthocotelles ]. Mourecotelles can be further differentiated from both Colletes and Hemicotelles by metapostnotum without transverse carina in both sexes (modified from: Michener, 1989; Fig. 4C View Figure 4 ) [metapostnotum with a transverse carina ( Fig. 4D, E View Figure 4 ) in Colletes and Hemicotelles ] and from Xanthocotelles by having dark-brown to black hind tibia and basitarsus in both sexes (modified from: Toro & Cabezas, 1978; Fig. 1C, D View Figure 1 ) [legs pale-yellow to darkorange ( Fig. 1E, F View Figure 1 ) in Xanthocotelles ].

Additional species: Mourecotelles boliviensis Toro & Cabezas, 1977 , M. chillan Toro & Cabezas, 1977 , M. enodis ( Toro & Cabezas, 1977) , M. glycyrrhizae ( Jørgensen, 1912) , M. moldenkei Toro & Cabezas, 1977 , M. puelche Toro & Cabezas, 1977 , Mourecotelles sp.1 , M. spinolae (Crawford & Titus, 1904) and M. triciliatus Toro & Cabezas, 1977 .

Comments: Mourecotelles is mostly distributed in Argentina and Chile ( Toro & Cabezas, 1977, 1978; Michener, 1989, 2007; Moure & Urban, 2002; Moure et al., 2007; Ascher & Pickering, 2020), although there is at least one undescribed species ( Mourecotelles sp.1 ) from southern Brazil. We did not include either M. glycyrrhizae or M. triciliatus in our analyses, but one of us (RRF) has examined the male holotype of the latter and the species is undoubtedly a Mourecotelles . Unfortunately, the original description of M. glycyrrhizae is not detailed enough ( Jörgensen, 1909), and there is no additional descriptive morphological treatment of the species, to permit its generic placement with certainty.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Colletidae

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