Eremaphanta (Eremaphanta) turcomanica Popov, 1705

Michez, Denis & Patiny, Sébastien, 2006, Review of the bee genus Eremaphanta Popov 1940 (Hymenoptera: Melittidae), with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 1148 (1), pp. 47-68 : 57-59

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1148.1.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5058304
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scientific name	Eremaphanta (Eremaphanta) turcomanica Popov
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Eremaphanta (Eremaphanta) turcomanica Popov View in CoL

Eremaphanta turcomanica Popov 1940: 1704–1705 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material. ♀ holotype, Turkmenistan, 1895, leg. Ahnger, ZISP. Original designation of the locus typicus: " Turkmenia " .

Additional material. None.

Differential diagnosis. ♀ and ♂. Close to E. vitellina . Body yellow. Head one and half times wider than long. Mesoscutum mostly yellow. Terga without apical hair bands.

Diagnosis. ♀. Length = 6,5mm. Body almost entirely yellow, except black spots along inner margins of eyes, median portion of mesoscutum and bases of S1S5. Galea yellow. Face and clypeus glabrous. Vertex with dense white erect hairs. Genal area yellow, with white short erect hairs. Head shiny and weakly punctate. Clypeus three times broader than long. Flagellum short, one and a half times as long as scape. A3A12 broader than long. Propodeal triangle yellow, minutely rugose, with a median groove. T1 T5 glabrous, without apical hair bands. Premarginal line of sterna emarginate. ♂. Unknown .

Distribution. Turkmenistan.

Floral choices and phenology. Unknown.