Megachile (Creightonella) albisecta (Klug, 1817)

Maharramov, M. M., Fateryga, A. V. & Proshchalykin, M. Yu., 2021, Megachilid bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan: tribes Lithurgini, Dioxyini, and Megachilini, Far Eastern Entomologist 428, pp. 12-24 : 16-17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.25221/fee.428.3

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E1560D-FFA2-4660-FF73-0FA79F77F9B7

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scientific name

Megachile (Creightonella) albisecta (Klug, 1817)
status

 

Megachile (Creightonella) albisecta (Klug, 1817) View in CoL

Figs 1–3 View Figs 1–3

Megachile albisecta: Maharramov et al., 2014: 146 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. 2 – 12.VI 2019, 1 ♂, MP, KA, MM [FSCV]; 7 – 25.VII 2016,

1 ♀, MM [IZAB]; 12 – 27.VII 2018 , 1 ♂, MP, KA, MM; 13 – 20.VI 2019 , 1 ♀, MP, KA ,

MM; 14 – 26-27.VII 2018, 1 ♀ , MP, KA, MM; 16 – 26.VII 2018, 1 ♀ , MP, KA, MM; 17 –

27.VII 2018, 1 ♀, 2 ♂, MP, KA, MM ; 18 – 25.VI 2020, 7 ♀, 1 ♂, MM [FSCV], 1 gynandromorph, MM [CAFK]; 22 – 28.VII 2018, 3 ♂, MP, KA, MM ; 26 – 29.VII 2018, 1 ♂, MP, KA ,

MM; 29 – 25.VII 2018, 2 ♂ , MP, KA, MM; 36 – 21.VII 2018, 2 ♀ , MP, KA, MM; 39 – 24-

25.VII 2018, 1 ♀, MP, KA, MM; 40 – 13.VI 2019, 2 ♂, MP, KA, MM [FSCV] .

DISTRIBUTION. Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe, North Africa, Russia

(European part), Azerbaijan, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan,

Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan.

REMARKS. The collected gynandromorph of this species had a mosaic structure (Figs

1–3). The head was generally male-like (including the tridentate mandibles) except the antennae which were female-like (they had ten flagellomeres and a length typical of the female). It was hardly possible to ascertain the sex-type of the thorax due to its poor sexual dimorphism in this species but the legs were definitely male-like (claws were bifurcate in all the pairs of legs). The metasoma was generally female-like expect the pilosity which was male-like both dorsally (apical bands of the terga were not as strong as in the female) and ventrally (scopa was replaced by sparse long bands of setae). The genitalia were female-like.

The specimen bore deutonymphs of a symbiotic mite species.

habitus, dorsal view (except wings); 2 – head, frontal view; 3 – metasoma, lateral view.

MP

Mohonk Preserve, Inc.

MM

University of Montpellier

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile

Loc

Megachile (Creightonella) albisecta (Klug, 1817)

Maharramov, M. M., Fateryga, A. V. & Proshchalykin, M. Yu. 2021
2021
Loc

Megachile albisecta:

Maharramov 2014: 146
2014
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