Megalopta (Noctoraptor), Engel, Brooks, and Yanega

ENGEL, MICHAEL S., 2000, Classification Of The Bee Tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (250), pp. 1-89 : 41

Subgenus Noctoraptor Engel, Brooks, and Yanega

Megalopta (Noctoraptor) Engel, Brooks, and Yanega, 1997: 12 . Type species: Megalopta (Noctoraptor) byroni Engel, Brooks, and Yanega, 1997 , original designation.

DIAGNOSIS: See Diagnosis for Megalopta s.s. (above).

DESCRIPTION: As for the genus with the following additions: Female. Mandible long scythe-shaped, without supplementary teeth Scopa absent. Basitibial plate absent. Male Apical margin of clypeus black. Scape anteriorly black; F2 approximately two-thirds length of F3. Metasoma elongate. Apical margin of S5 broadly emarginate.

REVISIONS: At present there are two species included in Noctoraptor ; the type species and M. (Noctoraptor) noctifurax Engel etal.

BIOLOGY: Noctoraptor species are cleptoparasitic, based on their anatomy, presumably on other species of Megalopta .

DISTRIBUTION: The two known species occur in Panama ( M. byroni ) and Ecuador ( M noctifurax ).