Rhectomia Moure, 1947

Alvarez, Leopoldo Jesús, Ramello, Pablo José, Avalos, Adan Alberto, Almada, Valentín, Aguirre, Marina Soledad, Torretta, Juan Pablo & Lucia, Mariano, 2024, Contributions to the wild bee fauna in Argentina (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 64, pp. 1-13 : 9

Genus Rhectomia Moure

The genus Rhectomia s. l. was revised by GonÇalves (2010), who transferred two species to Corynurella Eickwort , proposed the new subgenus Paracorynurella GonÇalves and conducted a species phylogeny based on morphological characters. Also, he described one new species of Rhectomia s. s., and presented a key to differentiate the three species included in this subgenus. Species of genus Rhectomia s. s. are small, dull-green bees sometimes with the body partly testaceous or reddish, and others with marked blue-green reflection ( Michener, 2007). Females of Rhectomia can be distinguished from other similar genera by the obtuse epistomal angle,wide gena and metapostnotum not carinate.