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Taxonomy of the New World bee genus Agapostemon Guérin-Méneville - new names and synonymies (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

  • 1. Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2340 Albert Street, Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 2V7 Canada.
  • 2. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Science, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • 3. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, Netherlands.

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Sheffield, Cory S., Vilhelmsen, Lars, Bakker, Frederique (2021): Taxonomy of the New World bee genus Agapostemon Guérin-Méneville - new names and synonymies (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 751 (1): 1-23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1375, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1375

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