Noctoraptor

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Translingual

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Etymology

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From Latin noct- (night) + raptor.

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Noctoraptor m

  1. A taxonomic subgenus within the family Halictidae – certain bees, Megalopta (Noctoraptor). [from 1997]
    • 2000, Michael S. Engel, Classification of the bee tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera:Halictidae) (in English), page 41:
      The nominate subgenus differs from the cleptoparasitic species of Noctoraptor by the presence of scopal hairs, a basitibial plate, and the normally developed mandibles.

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