Durante Silvana, Torretta Juan Pablo, Colombo Maria Guadalupe
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, B1900DNG La Plata, Argentina.; Email:
Cátedra de Botánica General, Facultad de Agronomía. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av. San Martín 4453, C1417DSE, Buenos Aires, Argentina.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2014 Jun 6(3814):133-8. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.1.8.
The cosmopolitan genus Megachile include many species described on the basis of only one sex. Sexual dimorphism is very pronounced in these taxa and therefore sexes are often difficult to associate, thus making species identification nearly impossible. The females of M. (Chrysosarus) concava and M. (Pseudocentron) variplantis are described and illustrated. Additional geographical and host records are provided as well as comments on their diagnostic features and identification based on existing keys.
广布属切叶蜂包含许多仅依据单一性别描述的物种。这些分类单元中的两性异形非常显著,因此常常难以将两性关联起来,进而使得物种鉴定几乎无法进行。描述并图示了凹切叶蜂(金切叶蜂亚属)和多变切叶蜂(拟中点切叶蜂亚属)的雌性。还提供了额外的地理和寄主记录,以及基于现有检索表对其鉴别特征和鉴定的评论。