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Callistochlora Michener, 1997
Callochlora Moure, J. S. (1964). Two new genera of halictine bees from the Araucanian subregion of South America (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 37 (4): 265-275 [269] (junior homonym of Callochlora Packard, 1864) .
Type species: Halictus chloris Spinola, 1851 by original designation.

Callistochlora Michener, C. D. (1997). Genus-group names of bees and supplemental family-group names. Sci. Papers, Nat. Hist. Mus., Univ. Kansas 1: 1-81 [12] (nom. nov. for Callochlora Moure, 1964) .

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Argentina (Chubut, Neuquén, Rio Negro), Chile (Choapa, Elqui, Limarí, Santiago, Valdivia), Peru

References

Eickwort, G. C. (1969). Tribal positions of Western Hemisphere green sweat bees, with comments on their nest architecture (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 62 (3): 652–660 [653, 658] (Note)
Eickwort, G. C. (1969). A comparative morphological study and generic revision of the augochlorine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 48: 325–524 [393] (Taxonomy (tax. status, redescription))
Eickwort, G. C. & Sakagami, S. F. (1979). A classification of nest architecture of bees in the tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera: Halictidae; Halictinae), with descriptions of a Brazilian nest of Rhynocorynura inflaticeps. Biotropica 11 (1): 28–37 [30-37] (Nesting)
Engel, M. S. (2000). Classification of the bee tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 250: 1-89 [52] (Taxonomy)
Engel, M. S. & Klein, B. A. (1997). Neocorynurella, a new genus of Augochlorine bees from South America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 44 (2): 155-163 [157, 158] (Comparative note, key)
González-Vaquero, R.A. & Galvani, G.L. (2016). Antennal sensilla analyses as useful tools in the revision of the sweat-bee subgenus Corynura (Callistochlora) Michener (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Zool. Anz. 262: 29-42 [31] (Taxonomy, morphology, as Corynura (Callistochlora))
González-Vaquero, R. A. & Roig-Alsina, A. (2017). Phylogeny of the Corynura group, an endemic southern South American clade sister to all other Augochlorini bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), and a revision of Corynura. Arthropod Syst. Phylo 75 (3): 435-479 [444] (Taxonomy, as Callistochlora)

Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 22 Mar 2022

Available Species

Callistochlora aureoviridis (Friese, 1910)
Callistochlora chloris (Spinola, 1851)
Callistochlora prothysteres (Vachal, 1904)