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Apidologie
Volume 31, Number 3, May-june 2000
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| Page(s) | 431 - 436 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2000133 | |
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2000133
Apidologie 31 (2000) 431-436
A new augochlorine bee species in Tertiary amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
Michael S. Engel - Molly G. Rightmyer
Department of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street,
New York, NY 10024-5192, USA
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Abstract:
A new species of the bee genus Oligochlora Engel is described and figured from two females preserved
in a single piece of Miocene Dominican amber. The species is proposed as Oligochlora marquettorum
Engel & Rightmyer sp. nov., and is the fourth member of this extinct genus of the tribe Augochlorini.
Keywords:
Apoidea / Miocene / Oligochlora / paleontology / extinct species / taxonomy
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