A new species of Microsphecodes from Jamaica (Hymenoptera, Halictidae).

ABSTRACT: A new species of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Microsphecodes Eickwort and Stage (Halictinae: Halictini) is described and figured from a male and female collected in Jamaica. Microsphecodes xaymacensis Engel, sp. n., is distinguished from its congeners on the basis of integumental coloration and sculpturing, and form of the male pygidial plate and genitalia.

SUBMITTER: Engel MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3142688 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature