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Taxonomic notes on Japanese species of the Nomada furva species group (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author(s) -
MITAI Katsushi,
TADAUCHI Osamu
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
entomological science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.536
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1479-8298
pISSN - 1343-8786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2006.00169.x
Subject(s) - biology , hymenoptera , terminalia , species group , species groups , apidae , key (lock) , zoology , taxonomy (biology) , genus , botany , ecology
The furva species group of the genus Nomada in Japan is taxonomically revised and the following three species are recognized: N. okubira Tsuneki, 1973, stat. nov., N. pulawskii Tsuneki, 1973, and N. taicho Tsuneki, 1973. Nomada okubira is raised to species rank, and N. etigonis Tsuneki, 1986, is synonymized under N. okubira . Detailed illustrations of male terminalia are provided for N. okubira and N. taicho . A key to the Japanese species is provided.