A new species of Chilicola from Bahia, Brazil (Hymenoptera, Colletidae), with a key to the species of the megalostigma group

Favízia Freitas de Oliveira; Thiago Mahlmann; Michael S Engel

doi:10.3897/zookeys.153.2188

A new species of Chilicola from Bahia, Brazil (Hymenoptera, Colletidae), with a key to the species of the megalostigma group

Zookeys. 2011:(153):81-90. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.153.2188. Epub 2011 Dec 9.

Authors

Favízia Freitas de Oliveira¹, Thiago Mahlmann, Michael S Engel

Affiliation

¹ Laboratório de Bionomia, Biogeografia e Sistemática de Insetos (BIOSIS), Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Campus Universitário de Ondina, Salvador, CEP 40170-115, Bahia, Brazil.

Abstract

The bee genus Chilicola Spinola (Xeromelissinae) is recorded from the State of Bahia, Brazil for the first time, based on a new species of the megalostigma group of the subgenus Hylaeosoma Ashmead. Chilicola (Hylaeosoma) kevanisp. n. is described and figured from males collected in Wesceslau Guimarães, Bahia. The species can be distinguished on the basis of coloration, size, integumental sculpturing, and structure of the hidden metasomal sterna and genitalia. A revised key to the species of the megalostigma group is provided.

Keywords: Anthophila; Apoidea; Brazil; Chilicola; Colletidae; Hylaeosoma; Xeromelissinae; new species; taxonomy.