A new species of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Thyreus from northern Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

被引：3
作者：
Alqarni, Abdulaziz S. [1 ]
Hannan, Mohammed A. [1 ]
Engel, Michael S. [2 ,3 ]
机构：
[1] King Saud Univ, Coll Food & Agr Sci, Dept Plant Protect, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
[2] Univ Kansas, Museum Nat Hist, Div Entomol, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[3] Univ Kansas, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
来源：
ZOOKEYS | 2014年 / 428期
关键词：
Apoidea; Anthophila; Melectini; Arabian Peninsula; taxonomy; cleptoparasitism; 1ST RECORD; BIOLOGY; MEGACHILIDAE; KINGDOM;
D O I：
10.3897/zookeys.428.7821
中图分类号：
Q95 [动物学];
学科分类号：
071002 ;
摘要：
A new species of cleptoparasitic bee of the genus Thyreus Panzer (Apinae: Melectini) is described and figured from northern Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia. Thyreus shebicus Engel, sp. n. is a relatively small species superficially similar to the widespread and polytypic species T. ramosus (Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau) and T. ramosellus (Cockerell) but more closely allied to various African forms on the basis of the male genitalia. The species is distinguished from its congeners on the basis of coloration pattern, male hind leg structure, and particularly male terminalia.
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