. The bee genus Chilicola in the tropical Andes : with observations on nesting biology and a phylogenetic analysis of the subgenera (Hymenoptera: Colletidae, Xeromelissinae). Chilicola; Colletidae -- Andes. Bee Genus Chiucola in the Tropical Andes INTRODUCTION The genus Chilicola consists of small, slender, largely black bees (Fig. 1) ranging from Santa Cruz Province, Ar- gentina, and Asien, Chile, north to the states of Tamaulipas and Jalisco in Mexico and St. Vincent in the Lesser Antilles. In much of this wide range, species of Chilicola are few and specimens rarely collected. The literatur
. The bee genus Chilicola in the tropical Andes : with observations on nesting biology and a phylogenetic analysis of the subgenera (Hymenoptera: Colletidae, Xeromelissinae). Chilicola; Colletidae -- Andes. Bee Genus Chiucola in the Tropical Andes INTRODUCTION The genus Chilicola consists of small, slender, largely black bees (Fig. 1) ranging from Santa Cruz Province, Ar- gentina, and Asien, Chile, north to the states of Tamaulipas and Jalisco in Mexico and St. Vincent in the Lesser Antilles. In much of this wide range, species of Chilicola are few and specimens rarely collected. The literature shows them to be abundant and diverse only in Chile, which has a fauna of 32 known species, placed in seven subgenera (Toro and Moldenke, 1979; Toro, 1986). Michener (1995) reduced the number of Chilean subgenera to four, but the diversity is clearly substantial. Only three species from the Andes north of Chile have been described (Benoist, 1942, two species from Ecuador; Friese, 1908, one species from Peru); a fourth species found in Colombia was described from Central America. It now appears, however, that there is a rich fauna in the Andes of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela, , in the Pima and Paramo Nordandino and adjacent provinces recog- nized by Morrone (2001). The present paper concerns the 27 species known from these mountains. Because these bees are small, because there are relatively few bee collec- tors, and above all because Andean weather is so often not favorable for flight by insects like bees that are usually in their nests when the weather is cold, windy, cloudy, foggy, and rainy, collecting with a net from flowers is of- ten not a successful way of sampling the Andean Chilicola fauna. Many more species will no doubt be found, for several of those described herein are known from a single locality and one or a few specimens. Benoist (1942) ap- pears to have been the first person to realize that they can be obtained from pithy stems in Ecuador (regar
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