Dufourea Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau

Gibbs, Jason, Dumesh, Sheila & Griswold, Terry L., 2014, Bees of the genera Dufourea and Dieunomia of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae), with a key to the Dufourea of eastern North America, Journal of Melittology 2014 (29), pp. 1-15 : 3

Genus Dufourea Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau

Dufourea can easily be recognized among bees of the eastern United States by the following characters: two submarginal cells, a single subantennal sulcus below each antennal socket, short clypeus, and antennal sockets below middle of the face ( Fig. 1 ). For generic-level keys see Mitchell (1960), Michener et al. (1994), and Michener (2007).

Figures

Figure 1. Face of female Dufourea maura (Cresson). Modified from Dumesh & Sheffield (2012). Scale bar = 1 mm.