Abstract
The little-known bee genusBathanthidiumMavromoustakis, 1953 of the family Megachilidae is reported for the first time from Vietnam. A new species,Bathanthidium(Bathanthidium s. str.) paco Tran & Nguyen,sp. nov.from Hoa Binh province is described and illustrated. A nest of the new species is reported from a wooden house. An updated identification key to all known species of the subgenus Bathanthidium s. str. is also provided.
Highlights
Bathanthidium is a small genus of anthidiine bees occurring in eastern Asia (Michener 2007; Ascher and Pickering 2021)
Bathanthidium has a primarily Indomalayan distribution with almost all the described species occuring in this biogeographic realm, the majority having been reported from southern China
Very little is known of the biology of Bathanthidium
Summary
Bathanthidium is a small genus of anthidiine bees occurring in eastern Asia (Michener 2007; Ascher and Pickering 2021). It is an uncommonly collected genus with most species known from a small number of specimens and some species lack associated. Ngat Thi Tran et al / Journal of Hymenoptera Research 88: 51–60 (2021). China is considered the distribution center of the genus because almost all its species occur in this country (Niu et al 2019)
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