Erythropasiphae 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 : 23

Erythropasiphae Engel , new subgenus

ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:CF436873-503C-4164-A9DF-261FA6E8333B

TYPE SPECIES: Pasiphae rufiventris Spinola, 1851 .

DIAGNOSIS: This subgenus has the marginal line of the basal area of the propodeum distinct (not effaced as in Bicolletes s.str.), the subhorizontal basal area finely coriaceous and shorter than the metanotum. The hind wing has 8–9 distal hamuli (rather than the 5–7 of Bicolletes s.str. and Bicolletopsis ), while the forewing marginal cell apex is obliquely truncate and appendiculate. The metasoma is largely reddish to reddish orange.

ETYMOLOGY: The new subgeneric name is a combination of the Ancient Greek adjective eruthrós (ἐρῨΘρός, meaning, “reddish”) and Pasiphae . The gender of the name is feminine.