TY  - JOUR
A1  - Landaverde-González, Patricia
A1  - Gardner, Joel
A1  - Moo-Valle, Humberto
A1  - Quezada-Euán, José Javier G.
A1  - Ayala, Ricardo
A1  - Husemann, Martin
T1  - Seven new species of Lasioglossum (Dialictus) Robertson, 1902 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini) from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - Lasioglossum is a large genus of halictid bees with high species diversity in morphologically rather cryptic species groups. With more than 1900 described species, the taxonomy of the genus is complex and largely unresolved in many regions. For practical reasons, systematic reviews are restricted in scope either geographically or to particular species groups. In this study we focus on the subgenus Dialictus of the genus Lasioglossum from the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. In previous studies we identified members of the genus as important pollinators of cash crops in the region, and genetic analyses suggested the existence of seven molecular taxonomic units (mOTU). Based on additional morphological differences, we here describe these mOTUs as novel species, Lasioglossum (Dialictus) yucatanense Landaverde-González sp. nov., L. (D.) paxtoni Landaverde-González sp. nov., L. (D.) ameshoferi Landaverde-González sp. nov., L. (D.) aureoviride Landaverde-González & Husemann sp. nov., L. (D.) paralepidii Gardner sp. nov., L. (D.) milpa Landaverde-González sp. nov. and L. (D.) nanotegula Landaverde-González & Husemann sp. nov., and provide keys and images to assist in their identification.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 862 
KW  - Apoidea
KW  - Neotropics
KW  - sensilla
KW  - sweat bee
KW  - wing morphometry
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68941
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-689417
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2023
IS  - 862
SP  - 1
EP  - 65
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -