A new species of Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)
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Issue Date
2012-06-25Author
Alqarni, Abdulaziz S.
Hannan, Mohammed A.
Gonzalez, Victor H.
Engel, Michael S.
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Some bees and pollen wasps have independently evolved simple, stiff, erect, apically-curved, curly or hooked facial setae as adaptations to collect pollen from nototribic flowers. A distinctive new species of Chalicodoma Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau subgenus Pseudomegachile Friese from Saudi Arabia with such morphological adaptations, C. riyadhense sp. n., is described and figured. The species was captured visiting flowers of Blepharis ciliaris (L.) (Acanthaceae). The occurrence of modified facial setae is documented and
discussed for the first time in eight other species of Pseudomegachile, and a key to the genera and subgenera of Megachilini currently confirmed for Saudi Arabia is provided.
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1313-2989Items in KU ScholarWorks are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
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