Stilbopasiphae Engel, 2022

Engel, Michael S. & Gonzalez, Victor H., 2022, A new bee genus from the pampas of eastern Argentina, with appended notes on the classification of “ paracolletines ” (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), Journal of Melittology 2022 (109), pp. 1-39 : 22-23

Stilbopasiphae Engel , new genus

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TYPE SPECIES: Bicolletes abdominalis stilborhinus Moure, 1954 .

DIAGNOSIS: This genus generally agrees with Bicolletes but differs in the noticeably flat, smooth, and shining clypeus and supraclypeal area, the former with sparse punctures and the later wholly impunctate. In addition, the protarsus is characteristically modified such that it is shortened, at most as long as the protibia, with the probasitarsus greatly shortened and bearing a flat, translucent, inner apical process that extends to the base of protarsomere IV.

ETYMOLOGY: The new generic name is a combination of the Ancient Greek stílbō (στίλβω, meaning, “to shine”) and Pasiphae . The gender of the name is feminine.