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Pseudoanthidium astafurovae

Pseudoanthidium astafurovae is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae described in 2025.

Identification

Pseudoanthidium astafurovae is characterized in the males by the following combination of features:

  1. Tergum 6 laterally bulging, without hooked or spiniform protrusions.
  2. Emargination of tergum 7 only slightly widening in the apical third, with a rather pointed base (V-shaped emargination).
  3. Emargination of tergum 7 bearing a translucent margin.
  4. Posterior margin of the scutellum rather rounded in dorsal view.
  5. Apical margin of sternum 2 truncate, without a medial protrusion.
  6. Yellow preoccipital band reaching the mandibular base.

Pseudoanthidium astafurovae differs from the closely related P. eximium by a more slender penis valve, particularly in its apical part, bearing much shorter hairs. It also differs in having distinctly pointed (rather than rounded) apical margins of sternum 7 and a distinctly pointed apical margin of sternum 8.

Naming

The new species is named after Yulia V. Astafurova of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Distribution

Described male is collected from Kotam, Ordubad, Nakhchivan.

References