“…Considering also the distinctive hind tibial vestiture in females, Michener (2007) indicated Patellapis Friese, 1909 as the most probable sister group of Homalictus, suggesting that the weak distal wing veins of Homalictus and Lasioglossum may have arisen independently. Since then, most taxonomists have considered Homalictus as a genus (Michener, 1980a(Michener, , 1980b(Michener, , 2007Gollan et al, 2011;Niu et al, 2013;Pauly et al, 2015;Groom et al, 2017;Grieve et al, 2018;Hall, 2018;Houston, 2018;Dorey et al, 2019), even though phylogenetic analyses using morphological and molecular data have shown consistently that Homalictus likely arose within Lasioglossum (Danforth, 1999;Danforth et al, 1999Danforth et al, , 2003Danforth & Ji, 2001;Danforth & Almeida, 2008;Gibbs et al, 2012Gibbs et al, , 2013Murao et al, 2015).…”