Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 48B(1-2) 2005

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VOL 48B(1-2) 2005

Keywords:

Batesian and Müllerian mimicry, phylogeny, Panamă, Costa Rica, Augochlorini

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Systematics and mimicry of the genus Neocorynura: an example of two species from Central America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

• Allan H. SMITH-PARDO

Abstract:

A case of probable mimicry in two species of bees in the genus Neocorynura (Neocorynura rufa MICHENER, 1954 and N. panamensis ENGEL, 1997) is described; diagnostic characters and a key to separate the species of Central American bees with black-red (aposematic) pattern of coloration