Megalopta

Santos, Leandro M. & Silveira, Fernando A., 2009, Taxonomic notes on Megalopta Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini) with a synopsis of the species in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Zootaxa 2194, pp. 1-20 : 5

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Megalopta View in CoL subgenus Megalopta Smith

Megalopta Smith, 1853: 83 View in CoL ; Engel et al., 1997: 12; Engel, 2000: 40 View Cited Treatment –41; Michener, 2000: 391. Type species: Megalopta idalia Smith, 1853 (= Halictus amoenus Spinola, 1851 ) designated by decision of the International Committee of Zoological Nomenclature (Op. 788, 1966), following suggestion of Michener and Moure (1964) to invalidate the designations made by Cockerell (1900) and Meade-Waldo (1916) of Megalopta bituberculata Smith, 1853 , as the type specie of the genus.

Megaloptera Ashmead, 1899 . “ Lapsus calami ”.

Megalopta (Megaloptella) Schrottky, 1906 . Type species: Halictus ochrias Vachal, 1904 , monotypic. Tmetocoelia Moure, 1943. Type specie: Megalopta sulciventris Friese, 1926 View in CoL , original designation.

Diagnosis. Females of Megalopta s.str. differ from those of Noctoraptor in the presence of basitibial plate and of femoral and tibial scopa (absent in Noctoraptor) and in their mandibles (falciform in Noctoraptor). Male Megalopta s.s differ from those of Noctoraptor in the apical margin of their clypeus and anterior surface of their scape, which are white (black in Noctoraptor), and their F2, which is subequal in length to F3 (shorter in Noctoraptor) ( Engel et al. 1997).