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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees (Colletidae) » Diphaglossinae » Zikanapis » Zikanapis elegans
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Ptiloglossa hoplopoda - Zikanapis elegans - female
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Ptiloglossa hoplopoda - Zikanapis elegans - Female
Ramsey Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
September 7, 2019
Size: Body Length 17 mm.
Barcode DNA Analysis by Wendy Moore. BOLD AAH6455. UAIC 1135133.

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Contributed by cwmelton on 12 December, 2021 - 10:12pm
Last updated 26 September, 2023 - 5:36am

Moved
Moved from Diphaglossinae.
… John S. Ascher, 26 September, 2023 - 5:36am login or register to post comments

Could this be Zikanapis clypeata instead?
Is that Ptiloglossa species the closest BLAST search match (not reliable) or has it been properly identified?

Not optimal to report a potential new species for the USA without some sort of annotation or documentation.
… John S. Ascher, 16 August, 2022 - 7:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Ptiloglossa sp.
Phylogenetic analysis based on DNA sequence data from COI of this specimen and all the published sequences in BOLD place this specimen as sister group to a clade of Ptiloglossa and directly with 5 specimens from Guanacaste CR identified as Ptiloglossa hoplopoda. Likely the specimens in BOLD are misidentified. The Bee Course is wrapping up in Portal right now. I'll send a note to see if I can find someone interested in looking at it. I see Zikanapis is the sister group of Ptiloglossa (Almeida and Danforth 2009). Now I'm thinking a misidentification in BOLD is most likely. Thanks for catching this!
… wmooreAZ, 21 August, 2022 - 6:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 28 December, 2021 - 12:49am login or register to post comments

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