APIDAE ›› Colletinae ›› Diphaglossini ›› Dissoglottina

Mydrosoma Smith, 1879
Apista Smith, F. (1861). Descriptions of new genera and species of exotic Hymenoptera. J. Entomol. 1: 146-155 [148] (junior homonym of Apista Hübner, 1825) .
Type species: Apista opalina Smith, 1861 by monotypy.

Mydrosoma Smith, F. (1879). Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in Collection of the British Museum. London: British Museum 240 pp. [5] .
Type species: Mydrosoma metallicum Smith, 1861 by monotypy.

Bicornelia Friese, H. (1899). Monographie der Bienengattungen Megacilissa, Caupolicana und Oxaea. Ann. K-K. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 14 (3): 239-246 [239] .
Type species: Bicornelia serrata Friese, 1899 by monotypy.

Egapista Cockerell, T. D. A. (1904). The bee-genus Apista, etc. Can. Entomol. 36: 357 [357] (nom. nov. for Apista Smith, 1861) .

Dissoglotta Moure, J. S. (1945). Contribuição para o conhecimento dos Diphaglossinae, particularmente Ptiloglossa (Hym. - Apoidea). Arq. Mus. Paranaense 4 (6): 137-178 [144] .
Type species: Dissoglota stenoceratina Moure, 1945 by original designation.

Ptiloglossidia Moure, J. S. (1953). Notas sobre Colletidae sul-americanos (Hymenoptera - Apoidea). Dusenia 4 (1): 61-78 [73] .
Type species: Ptiloglossidia fallax Moure, 1953 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Michener, C. D. (1986). A review of the tribes Diphaglossini and Dissoglotini (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 53 (4): 183-214 [197]
Urban, D., Moure, J. S. & Melo, G. A. R. (2007). Diphaglossini Vachal, 1909 pp. 691-710 in Moure, J. S., Urban, D. & Melo, G. A. R. (ed.) Catalogue of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region. Curitiba: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia xiv+1058 pp. [708]

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Argentina (Salta), Bolivia (Cochabamba), Brazil (Amazonas [Tefé], Espírito Santo [Domingos Martins], Mato Grosso [Ribeirão Cascalheira], Minas Gerais [Sabará], Rio de Janeiro [Itatiaia], Santa Catarina [Blumenau], São Paulo [Salesópolis]), Mexico (Jalisco, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Veracruz), Panama (Panamá), Peru

References

Ashmead, W. H. (1899). Classification of the bees, or the superfamily Apoidea. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 26: 49-100 [94] (Taxonomy (as Madrosoma [sic]))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1903). Notes on some genera of bees. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 29: 183-189 [184] (Comparative redescription)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1904). The bee-genus Apista, and other notes. Can. Entomol. 36: 330-331 [330] (Redescription, distribution (as Apista))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1905). Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 31: 309-364 [318] (Citation, catalog)
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [36, 585] (Catalog)
Ducke, A. (1910). Zur Synonymie der neotropischen Apidae. (Hym.). Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 1910: 362-369 [362] (Synonymy)
Ducke, A. (1912). Die natürlichen Bienengenera Südamerikas. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst., Geogr. Biol. Tiere 34: 51-116 [77] (Synonymy)
Michener, C. D. (1966). The classification of the Diphaglossinae and North American species of the genus Caupolicana (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 46 (20): 717-751 [719] (Diagnosis, distribution (as Bicornelia, Mydrosoma and Ptiloglossidia))
Michener, C. D. (1986). A review of the tribes Diphaglossini and Dissoglotini (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 53 (4): 183-214 [186, 187, 193, 197, 198] (Phylogeny, comparative notes, key, diagnosis, synonymy, key to species (as Mydrosoma and Ptiloglossidia))
Michener, C. D. (2004). The bee genus Mydrosoma in Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Entomol. News 114: 54 [54] (Distribution)
Moure, J. S. (1999). Especies de Parapsaenythia de Costa Rica descritas por Friese (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Rev. Bras. Zool. 16 (Supl. 1): 105-111 [106] (Citation (as Apista))
Sandhouse, G. A. (1943). The type species of the genera and subgenera of bees. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 92: 519-619 [547, 575] (Catalog (as Egapista and Mydrosoma))
Schrottky, C. (1902). Ensaio sobre as abelhas solitarias do Brazil. Rev. Mus. Paul. 5: 330-613 [342] (Redescription)
Schrottky, C. (1907). Contribución al conocimiento de los himenópteros del Paraguay. An. Cient. Paraguayos 7 (1): 1-78 [3, 30] (Nest, distribution)
Silveira, F. A., Melo, G. A. R. & Almeida, E. A. B. (2002). Abelhas Brasileiras: Sistemática e Identificação. Belo Horizonte: F. A. Silveira 253 pp. [154, 157, 158] (Illustrations, taxonomic and synonymic notes, key (as Mydrosoma and Ptiloglossidia))
Snelling, R. R. (1980). The bee genus Bicornelia (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co. 327: 1-6 [1] (Comparative notes (as Mydrosoma and Bicornelia), diagnosis and redescription (as Bicornelia))
Urban, D. & Moure, J. S. (2001). Catálogo de Apoidea da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). II. Diphaglossinae. Rev. Bras. Zool. 18 (1): 1-34 [27, 28, 29, 30] (Catalog, as Bicornelia, Dissoglotta, Mydrosoma and Ptiloglossidia)
Vachal, J. (1909). Espèces nouvelles ou litigieuses d' Apidae du haut Bassin du Parana et des régions contiguës et délimitation d' une nouvelle sous-famille Diphaglossinae (Hym.). Rev. Entomol. (Caen) 28: 5-64 [35] (Key, systematic position)

Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 07 Feb 2022

Available Species

Mydrosoma aterrimum (Friese, 1925)
Mydrosoma bohartorum Michener, 1986
Mydrosoma brooksi Michener, 1986
Mydrosoma fallax (Moure, 1953)
Mydrosoma inusitatum (Snelling, 1980)
Mydrosoma longitarse (Friese, 1925)
Mydrosoma micheneri Packer, 2007
Mydrosoma opalinum (Smith, 1861)
Mydrosoma sabarense Silveira & Martines, 2009
Mydrosoma saussurei (Vachal, 1909)
Mydrosoma serratum (Friese, 1899)
Mydrosoma sinaloa Michener, 1986