Svastra

Vivallo, Felipe, 2009, Notes on the bee genus Alloscirtetica Holmberg, 1909 in northern Chile with the description of two new altiplanic species and a key for the Chilean species of Eucerini (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 2010, pp. 16-30 : 25

Svastra Holmberg

The genus Svastra occurs mainly in North America, with only a few species distributed in South America ( Michener 2007). The males of Svastra have the length of F2 about twice as lond as F1 or longer; inner apical lobes of S7 very small, much exceeded by lateral lobes; basal hair bands of T2 and sometimes of T3 with spatuloplumose hairs (Fig. 112-10b in Michener 2007). They also have a lateral carina of pygidial plate not tooched subapically ( Michener 2007). The South American species, all members of the subgenus Svastra s. str. were reviewed by Urban (1998b).