Megachile (Callomegachile) mefistofelica GRIBODO, 1894

Megachile mefistofelica GRIBODO, 1894: MAGRETTI 1906: 15 (Keren).

Megachile mephistophelica (!) GRIBODO, 1894: GUIGLIA 1940: 296 (tax., Sabarguma, Tessenei).

Megachile mephistophelica (!) GRIBODO, 1894: EARDLEY & URBAN 2010: 311 (cat. Afr. reg. (Eritrea under Ethiopia)).

* Megachile albocincta RADOSZKOWSKI, 1874: MAGRETTI 1884: 624 (tax., Aikota).

Megachile albocincta RADOSZKOWSKI, 1874: DE DALLA TORRE 1896: 418 (world cat. partim (Eritrea under Egypt)).

Distribution: Aikota, Sabarguma, Tessenei.

GRIBODO (1894: 284 (footnote 2) received from Magretti only one female and one male from Kassala (Sudan) under the name Megachile albocincta, but no material from Aikota. The record from Eritrea is not mentioned in FRIESE (1909: 336; 1915: 274), COCKERELL (1937: 204) and PASTEELS (1965: 483). Megachile mefistofelica is also recorded from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.