Megachile (Eurymella) patellimana SPINOLA, 1839

Megachile patellimana SPINOLA, 1839: MAGRETTI 1906: 11 (Ghinda).

Megachile (Amegachile) patellimana SPINOLA, 1839: FRIESE 1909: 93 (map 5), 94 (biogeogr.), 326 (tax., cat. Africa), 333 (key ♀), 374 (tax., Harkeko), 467 (cat. Africa).

Megachile patellimana SPINOLA, 1839: FRIESE 1915: 275 (Harkeko).

Megachile (Eurymella) patellimana SPINOLA, 1839: PASTEELS 1965: 73-4 (key ♂), 75 (key ♀), 143 (figs 291-294), 147 (tax., descr. ♀ ♂, Eritrea not mentioned), 149 (figs 295), 558 (biogeogr.).

Megachile patellimana SPINOLA, 1839: EARDLEY & URBAN 2010: 317 (cat. Afr. reg.).

* Megachile xanthopus GERSTAECKER, 1858: WALKER 1871: 47 (tax., Harkeko).

Megachile xanthopus GERSTAECKER, 1858: FRIESE 1899: 221 (tax., descr. ♀, Eritrea under Egypt).

Megachile xanthopus GERSTAECKER, 1858: INNES BEY 1911: 105 (Harkeko, cat. Lord Collection).

Distribution: Ghinda, Harkeko.

Megachile patellimana is known from the Afrotropical (e.g. Sudan) and Palaearctic regions. The record from Eritrea (or Ethiopia) is not mentioned in EARDLEY & URBAN (2010: 317), although FRIESE (1915) is cited.