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
Journal of Crop Protection
Volume 2, Issue 3
September 2013
Pages 271-283