A new species of Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)
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 w...
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pubmed-33917232012-07-11 A new species of Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) Alqarni, Abdulaziz S. Hannan, Mohammed A. Gonzalez, Victor H. Engel, Michael S. Article 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, Chalicodoma 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. Pensoft Publishers 2012-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3391723/ /pubmed/22787421 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.204.3228 Text en Abdulaziz S. Alqarni, Mohammed A. Hannan, Victor H. Gonzalez, Michael S. Engel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
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Alqarni, Abdulaziz S. Hannan, Mohammed A. Gonzalez, Victor H. Engel, Michael S. A new species of Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) |
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Alqarni, Abdulaziz S. Hannan, Mohammed A. Gonzalez, Victor H. Engel, Michael S. |
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Alqarni, Abdulaziz S. |
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A new species of
Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)
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A new species of
Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)
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A new species of
Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)
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A new species of
Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)
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A new species of
Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)
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new species of
chalicodoma from saudi arabia with modified facial setae (hymenoptera, megachilidae) |
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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, Chalicodoma 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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2012 |
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