A replacement name for the bee Euhesma sulcata Exley (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Euryglossinae)

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by  Elizabeth M Exley

DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.24(2).2008.215
Records of the Western Australian Museum 24: 215 (2008). Short communication
A replacement name for the bee Euhesma sulcata Exley
(Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Euryglossinae)
Elizabeth M. Exley t
Department of Zoology and Entomology, 1 lie University of Queensland,
St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Abstract . Euhesma stria is proposed as a replacement name for Euhesma
sulcata Exley 2002 which was found to be a junior secondary homonym of
Euhesma sulcata (Exley 1998).
INTRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Exley (2002) proposed the name Euhesma sulcata I am very grateful to Michael Bat ley for alerting
for a new bee species of the Euhesma crabonica spe¬ me to the homonymv.
cies-group from Western Australia. This species has
been found to be preoccupied by Euhesma sulcata
(Exley, 1998), which was originally described as REFERENCES
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Etymology
The Latin word stria, meaning furrow, refers to Manuscript accepted 6 July 2007.
the same structure as the original E. sulcata, i.e. the
groove-like metasomal foveae.
t Deceased 2 September 2007