Megachile (Paracella) chrysopogon Vachal

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Megachile (Paracella) chrysopogon Vachal View in CoL

Figs 79–81

Megachile chrysopogon Vachal, 1910b: 313 View in CoL , male holotype (MRAC) Democratic Republic of the Congo. Megachile (Paracella) chrysopogon Vachal View in CoL : Pasteels 1965: 288, 291, 295–296, 297. Megachile flavibasis Cockerell, 1920a: 262 View in CoL , female holotype (AMNH) South Africa. Syn. nov. Megachile (Paracella) flavibasis Cockerell View in CoL : Pasteels 1965: 285, 293. Megachile heterotricha Cockerell, 1920b: 289–290 View in CoL , 292, male holotype (AMNH) South Africa; Pasteels 1965: 557. Syn. nov. Megachile candidicauda Cockerell, 1932g: 432–433 View in CoL , male holotype (AMNH) South Africa; Pasteels 1965: 321, 557. Syn. nov. Megachile candidigena Cockerell, 1932g: 434 View in CoL , female holotype (AMNH) South Africa; Pasteels 1965: 557. Syn. nov. Megachile neli Cockerell, 1937k: 209–210 View in CoL , female holotype (NHML) South Africa. Syn. nov. Megachile (Paracella) neli Cockerell View in CoL : Pasteels 1965: 284, 312. Megachile candidicauda spinarum Cockerell, 1937k: 129 View in CoL , 143, 152, male holotype (NHML) South Africa. Syn. nov. Megachile (Paracella) spinarum Cockerell View in CoL : Pasteels 1965: 283, 287, 318, 321–323; Gess 1981: 26, 30, 33, 60, 61, 66, 68, 70,

71, 75, 76; Gess and Gess 1981: 29, 30–31; Gess and Gess 1990: 26, 29; Gess and Gess 1994: 101; Gess 1996: 297. Megachile albofilosa Cockerell, 1937k: 130 View in CoL , 138, 139, female holotype (NHML) South Africa. Syn. nov. Megachile (Paracella) albofilosa Cockerell View in CoL : Pasteels 1965: 284, 302. Megachile discretula Cockerell, 1937k: 129 View in CoL , 164, 182, 217, male holotype (NHML) Democratic Republic of the Congo. Syn.

nov. Megachile (Eurymella) discretula Pasteels 1965: 76 , 142–144; Pasteels 1976b: 284. Megachile (Paracella) rubeola Pasteels, 1965: 282 , 317–318, 319, female holotype (MRAC) South Africa. Syn. nov. Megachile (Paracella) meesi Pasteels, 1966: 16–17 , female holotype (RMNH) Zimbabwe. Syn. nov.

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Vachal, J. (1910 b) Diagnoses d'insectes nouveaux recuellis dans le Congo belge par le Dr. Sheffield - Neave: Hymenoptera, Apidae. Annales de la Societe entomologique de Belgique, 54, 306 - 328.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Megachilidae
Genus	Megachile