Megalopta Smith, 1853

Alvarez, Leopoldo Jesús, Ramello, Pablo José, Avalos, Adan Alberto, Almada, Valentín, Aguirre, Marina Soledad, Torretta, Juan Pablo & Lucia, Mariano, 2024, Contributions to the wild bee fauna in Argentina (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 64, pp. 1-13 : 8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11606/1807-0205/2024.64.006

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Megalopta Smith
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Genus Megalopta Smith View in CoL

The species of genus Megalopta are relatively large halictine bees that have crepuscular or nocturnal behaviors and therefore exhibiting the typical large ocelli and pale integumental pigmentation ( Engel, 2000). There are 35 valid species of Neotropical distribution ( Moure & Melo, 2022) and Santos & Melo (2015) review the Brazilian species and update the taxonomy of the genus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

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