A new species of Tropidopedia from the Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with a revised phylogenetic overview of the genus.

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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coleção de Invertebrados, Av. André Araujo, 2936, Aleixo - Manaus/AM, Brasil - Caixa Postal 2223-CEP 69060-000.; Email:

Published: October 2015

We describe a new species of the bee tribe Tapinotaspidini, Tropidopedia guaranae Mahlmann & Oliveira sp. n. from the Amazon rainforest, Amazonas, Brazil. We emend the phylogenetic tree of Aguiar & Melo (2007) to include the new species and comment upon some characters presented by those authors.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4032.2.6DOI Listing

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