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Rhathymus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
Colax Lepeletier, A. L. M. & Serville, J. G. A. (1825). [Articles] pp. 1–344 in M. Diderot et al. (ed.) Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes, vol. 10, P. A. Latreille. Paris: Agasse [4] (junior homonym of Colax Hübner, 1819. Michener (1997:16) and Engel et al. (2004:4) treated it as a nomen nudum; however, since it was first presented in a diagnostic table, it can be considered as validly made available by Lepeletier & Serville (1825). The same reasoning applies to Scrapter, appearing in the same page. Otherwise, both names should be considered vernacular, as the remaining names appearing in the table, and therefore without significance to zoological nomenclature) .
Type species: Rhathymus bicolor Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 by subsequent monotypy, see Lepeletier, A. L. M. & Serville, J. G. A. (1828). [Articles] pp. 345-832 in M. Diderot et al. (ed.) Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes, vol. 10, P. A. Latreille. Paris: Agasse [448] .

Rhathymus Lepeletier, A. L. M. & Serville, J. G. A. (1828). [Articles] pp. 345-832 in M. Diderot et al. (ed.) Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes, vol. 10, P. A. Latreille. Paris: Agasse [448] (substitute name for Colax Lepeletier & Serville, 1825) .
Type species: Rhathymus bicolor Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 by monotypy.

Liogastra Perty, J. A. M. (1833). Delectus animalium articulatorum, quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maxilimiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis augustissimi peracto collegerunt Dr. J. B. de Spix et Dr. C. F. Ph. de Martius. Fasc. 3. München: Author's edition 125-224, pls. 25–40 pp. [146] .
Type species: Liogastra bicolor Perty, 1833 ( = Rhathymus bicolor Lepeletier & Serville) by monotypy.

Bureauella Dominique, J. (1898). Coup d'oeil sur les melliféres sud-américains du Muséum de Nantes. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Ouest France 8 (1): 57-65 .
Type species: Bureauella insignis Dominique, 1898 by monotypy.

Nanorhathymus Engel, M. S., Michener, C. D. & Rightmyer, M. G. (2004). A replacement name for the cleptoparasitic bee genus Rhathymodes (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Hym. Res. 13 (2): 316 [316] (nom. nov. for Rhathymodes Engel, Michener & Rightmyer, 2004) .

Rhathymodes Engel, M. S., Michener, C. D. & Rightmyer, M. G. (2004). The cleptoparasitic bee tribe Rhathymini (Hymenoptera: Apidae): description of a new genus and a tribal review. J. Hym. Res. 13(1): 1-12 [6] (junior homonym of Rhathymodes Turner, 1911) .
Type species: Rhathymus acutiventris Friese, 1906 by original designation.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Bolivia, Brazil (Bahia, Espírito Santo [Santa Leopoldina], Mato Grosso do Sul [Bonito], Minas Gerais [Barbacena, Passa Quatro, Uberaba, Viçosa], Pará [Belém, Itaituba], Pernambuco [Caruaru], Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo [Campinas, Corumbataí, Jundiaí, Rincão]), Colombia (Cundinamarca), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Guanacaste, Puntarenas), Ecuador, French Guiana (Cayenne), Guatemala (Sololá), Guyana, Honduras (Atlántida, Cortés), Mexico (Chiapas, Jalisco, Morelos, Oaxaca), Nicaragua (Granada), Panama (Chiriquí, Colón, Panamá), Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago

References

Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [323] (Catalog)
Diller, E. (1990). Die von Spix und Martius 1817-1820 in Brasilien gesammelten und von J. A. M. Perty 1833 bearbeiteten Hymenopteren in der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Spixiana (Munich) 13 (1): 61-81 [77] (Cited (as Liogastra))
Ducke, A. (1913). Zur Synonymie einiger Hymenopteren. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 1913: 330-333 [330] (Note on included species)
Engel, M. S., Michener, C. D. & Rightmyer, M. G. (2004). The cleptoparasitic bee tribe Rhathymini (Hymenoptera: Apidae): description of a new genus and a tribal review. J. Hym. Res. 13(1): 1-12 [3, 4, 5, 6] (Citation, key, catalog, diagnosis, biology (as Rhathymodes and Rhathymus))
Engel, M. S., Michener, C. D. & Rightmyer, M. G. (2004). A replacement name for the cleptoparasitic bee genus Rhathymodes (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Hym. Res. 13 (2): 316 [316] (Taxonomy, as Nanorhathymus)
Lepeletier, A. L. M. (1841). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Paris: Roret Vol. 2 680 pp. [539] (Taxonomy, description)
Rasmussen, C., Mahé, G. & Hinojosa-Díaz, A. (2007). Taxonomic status of the bees from French Guiana described by Jules Dominique (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Megachilidae, Halictidae). Zootaxa 1423: 59-62 [60] (Synonymy)

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Available Species

Rhathymus acutiventris Friese, 1906
Rhathymus ater (Smith, 1854)
Rhathymus atitlanicus Ayala, Hinojosa-Díaz & Armas-Quiñonez, 2019
Rhathymus beebei Cockerell, 1918
Rhathymus bertonii Schrottky, 1920
Rhathymus bicolor Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
Rhathymus concolor Friese, 1920
Rhathymus cristatus Ducke, 1907
Rhathymus friesei Ducke, 1907
Rhathymus fulvus Friese, 1906
Rhathymus insignis (Dominique, 1898)
Rhathymus michaelis Friese, 1900
Rhathymus nigripes Friese, 1912
Rhathymus paraguayensis Schrottky, 1920
Rhathymus quadriplagiatus (Smith, 1860)
Rhathymus rufescens Friese, 1920
Rhathymus scoliaeformis Schrottky, 1920
Rhathymus trinitatis Cockerell, 1935
Rhathymus unicolor (Smith, 1854)
Rhathymus versicolor Friese, 1906
Rhathymus vespiformis (De Geer, 1773)