Cleptommation Engel, Brooks, & Yanega 2013
Creators: name: Engel, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Cleptommation

description: Key to species of Cleptommation   
 Known distributions are summarized in the couplets but are not meant as diagnostic for identification. Females are unknown for C. tupaqi.   
1. Males........................................................................................................................... 2  
—. Females........................................................................................................................ 5  
 2(1). Metasoma almost entirely yellow, frequently with brownish apical margins to segments, and propodeum entirely yellow (Figs. 36, 37) (Panama, Costa Rica)..................................................................................... C. chibchani Engel, n. sp.   
—. Metasoma largely dark brown to light brown (Figs. 3, 4, 20, 27, 28), or, if as above, then propodeum brown with metallic green highlights (Figs. 13, 15).... 3  
3(2). Mesepisternum largely or entirely dark brown with strong metallic green highlights (Fig. 3, 13); apical process of sternum VII more broad and blunt along apex (Figs. 6, 16).......................................................................................................... 4  
 —. Mesepisternum entirely yellow to amber colored (Fig. 20) [sometimes yellowish or reddish brown in older, faded specimens (Fig. 27)]; apical process of sternum VII more acute, triangular (Fig. 23) (Amazon Basin, Guiana Shield)............................................................................................................................. C. minutum (Friese)   
 4(3). Metasomal terga largely yellow with brownish apical margins (Figs. 13, 15); terminalia as in figures 16–19 [note the broader and more pronounced process of the sterna; more rounded cephalad-inner angle of the ventral gonostylar process, straighter inner margin of the volsella, &c.] (Ecuador).... C. tupaqi Engel, n. sp.   
 —. Metasomal terga entirely brown to dark brown (Figs. 1, 3, 4), sometimes with yellow anteriorly on first metasomal tergum; terminalia as in figures 6–9 [note the less pronounced process of the sterna; more acutely angled cephalad-inner angle of the ventral gonostylar process, deeply concave inner margin of the volsella, &c.] (Bolivia)........................................................... C. bulivyense Engel, n. sp.   
5(1). Mesoscutellum, metanotum, and propodeum not entirely metallic green in color, entirely or mostly amber to yellow in color, sometimes with medial areas of metallic green on mesoscutellum and metanotum (Figs. 31, 34, 44)................. 6  
 —. Mesoscutellum, metanotum, and propodeum entirely metallic green in color, concolorous with mesoscutum (Figs. 2, 11) (Bolivia).... C. bulivyense Engel, n. sp.   
 6(5). Metasomal terga largely brown to dark brown (Figs. 30, 31, 33, 34) (Amazon Basin, Guiana Shield)............................................................... C. minutum (Friese)   
 —. Metasomal terga largely amber to yellow (Figs. 43, 44) (Panama, Costa Rica)..................................................................................................... C. chibchani Engel, n. sp.
description: Published as part of Engel, Michael S., 2013, Revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Cleptommation (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), pp. 1-26 in Journal of Melittology 2013 (22) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.17161/jom.v0i22.4608, http://zenodo.org/record/13736942