Palaearctic Osmiine Bees

Hoplitis hyperplastica (Morawitz, 1894) was assumed by Warncke (1991h) to be a member of the subgenus Alcidamea due to a prominent tooth on sternum 1 in the male. However, new material from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan revealed that H. hyperplastica is a member of the Hoplitis monstrabilis species group of the subgenus Hoplitis.

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