A new species of the bee genus Ctenoplectrella in middle Eocene Baltic amber (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)

ZooKeys

Volumn 111, Issue , 2011, Pages 41-49

  Gonzalez, Victor H ^a,b   Engel, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ctenoplectrellini; Eocene; Megachilinae; Paleontology; Taxonomy; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; MEGACHILIDAE; MEGACHILINAE;

EID: 79960040502     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.111.1593     Document Type: Article

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