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Type: Article
Published: 2014-03-24
Page range: 534–546
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Bees of the Colletes flavicornis-group from China with description of one new species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae)

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China.
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China.
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom.
Apiformes taxonomy DNA barcode fauna

Abstract

Two species of the Colletes flavicornis-group from China are treated in this paper. C. vestitus sp. n. from Xinjiang is illustrated and described, and C. popovi Noskiewicz, 1936 is illustrated and redescribed. Both sexes of the two species are in addition characterized by DNA barcodes. The type specimens of the new species are deposited in the Insect Collection of Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.