Lipotriches Lipotriches Gerstaecker

Zhang, Dan, Niu, Ze-Qing, Pauly, Alain, Da, Wa & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2022, A new species and a newly recorded subgenus of Lipotriches Gerstaecker, 1858 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae, Nomiinae) from China, ZooKeys 1090, pp. 103-111 : 103

Subgenus Lipotriches Lipotriches Gerstaecker

Lipotriches Gerstaecker, 1858: 460. Type species: Lipotriches abdominalis Gerstaecker, 1857 = Sphecodes cribrosa Spinola, 1843, monobasic.

Rhopalomelissa Alfken, 1926: 267. Type species: Rhopalomelissa xanthogaster Alfken, 1926, by designation of Sandhouse (1943: 596).

Nomia (Epinomia) Alfken, 1939: 113, not Ashmead, 1899. Type speies: Nomia andrenoides Vachal, 1903 = Nomia andrei Vachal, 1897, by original designation.

Alfkenomia Hirashima, 1956: 33, replacement for Epinomia Alfken, 1939. Type species: Nomia andrenoides Vachal, 1903 = Nomia andrei Vachal, 1897, autobasic.

Rhopalomelissa (Lepidorhopalomelissa) Wu, 1985: 58. Type species: Nomia burmica Cockerell, 1920, by original designation.

Rhopalomelissa (Trichorhopalomelissa) Wu, 1985: 58. Type species: Rhopalomelissa hainanensis Wu, 1985, by original designation.

Rhopalomelissa (Tropirhopalomelissa) Wu, 1985: 58. Type species: Rhopalomelissa nigra Wu, 1985, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Small-sized, body length about 5-12 mm; metasoma slender, with petiolate, T1 longer than broad in male (most species); pronotum with continuous or medially or laterally transverse carina or lamella anterior to the scutum; metasoma partly or wholly red for some species (i.e., Lipotriches floralis , Lipotriches esakii and Lipotriches mediorufa ).