A new species and a newly recorded subgenus of Lipotriches Gerstaecker, 1858 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae, Nomiinae) from China

Dan Zhang; Ze-Qing Niu; Alain Pauly; Wa Da; Chao-Dong Zhu

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1090.75872

A new species and a newly recorded subgenus of Lipotriches Gerstaecker, 1858 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae, Nomiinae) from China

Zookeys. 2022 Mar 24:1090:103-111. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1090.75872. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Dan Zhang^{1

2}, Ze-Qing Niu¹, Alain Pauly³, Wa Da⁴, Chao-Dong Zhu^{1

2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China.
² College of Biological Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19A Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 10049, China.
³ Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium, Entomology, Rue Vautier-29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Tibet Plateau Institute of Biology, Lhasa, 850001, Tibet, China.
⁵ State Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China.

Abstract

Two Chinese species of the genus Lipotriches Gerstaecker, 1858 are treated in this paper. Lipotriches (Lipotriches) guihongi Zhang & Niu, sp. nov. is recognized as a new species and Lipotriches (Maynenomia) nanensis (Cockerell, 1929) is a new species and subgenus record for China. The number of Chinese species of the subfamily Nomiinae and genus Lipotriches are updated to 47 and 15, respectively.

Keywords: Anthophila; Apiformes; bee pollinator; description; morphology; taxonomy.

Dan Zhang, Ze-Qing Niu, Alain Pauly, Wa Da, Chao-Dong Zhu.

Grants and funding

Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program(2019QZKK05010605)