A preliminary study of the cleptoparasitic bees of the genus Coelioxys (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in northern Iran, with six new records

Nadimi, Ahmad; Talebi, Ali Asghar; Fathipour, Yaghoub

doi:10.48311/jcp.2013.1089

A preliminary study of the cleptoparasitic bees of the genus Coelioxys (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in northern Iran, with six new records

Authors

Ahmad Nadimi

Ali Asghar Talebi

Yaghoub Fathipour

Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box 1415-336, Tehran, Iran.

10.48311/jcp.2013.1089

Abstract

A survey on the megachilid bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) fauna of northern Iran, between 2010 and 2011, led to the identification of eleven species of the genus Coelioxys Latreille belonging to subgenera Allocoelioxys (6 species), Boreocoelioxys (2 species), Coelioxys (2 species) and Liothyrapis (1 species). Of these, six species and one subgenus (Liothyrapis) are new to the fauna of Iran. Detailed illustrations of morphological characters, a key to the species of the genus Coelioxys and an updated checklist of Iranian species of Coelioxys are provided.

Keywords

new record

Coelioxys

cleptoparasitic bee

Megachilidae