Species info
Classification > Subfamily Eucerinae > Tribe Tapisnostaspidini > Genus Monoeca
Monoeca armata Torretta & Roig-Alsina, 2016
Female on Heteropterys intermedia (A. Juss) Griseb, San Ignacio, Misiones. Photo: J. P. Torretta
Female on <i>Heteropterys intermedia</i> (A. Juss) Griseb, San Ignacio, Misiones. Photo: J. P. Torretta
Female on Heteropterys intermedia (A. Juss) Griseb, San Ignacio, Misiones. Photo: J. P. Torretta
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Solitary bees, soil excavators
  • Argentina
    • Misiones
Other distribution
 
Host plants
Oil rewarding flowers: Heteropterys intermedia (A. Juss) Griseb. and Mascagnia divaricata (Kunth) Nied (Torretta & Roig-Alsina, 2016; Torretta et al. 2022)
References
  • TORRETTA, J. P. & ROIG-ALSINA, A. 2016. First report of Monoeca in Argentina, with description of two new species (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Melittology 59: 1-12
  • TORRETTA, J.P., ALISCIONI, S. S., MARRERO, H.J., AVALOS, A. A. 2022. Oil flowers of Malpighiaceae and its oil-collecting bees: loyalty and robbery in a highly specialized system. Apidologie 53: 30
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