Megachile patellimana Spinola

Eardley, Connal, 2012, 3601, Zootaxa 3601, pp. 1-133 : 115

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scientific name	Megachile patellimana Spinola
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Megachile patellimana Spinola View in CoL

Megachile patellimana Spinola, 1838: 529 View in CoL , male holotype (NHMV) Egypt; Pasteels 1973: 701, 702, 703.

Megachile (Amegachile) patellimana Spinola View in CoL : Friese 1909a: 93, 94, 326, 333, 374–375.

Megachile (Eurymella) patellimana Spinola View in CoL : Pasteels 1965: 67, 74, 75, 143–150, 159, 558, 560; Pasteels 1976b: 284.

Megachile xanthopus Gerstaecker, 1857: 462 View in CoL , two male syntypes (type depository unknown) Mozambique; Cockerell 1937k: 254, syn.; Pasteels 1965: 147.

The type material of this species has not been located and it cannot be identified from the original description. It was described from the Palaearctic Region and has possibly been incorrectly recorded from southern Africa through the description of xanthopus View in CoL from Mozambique .

References

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1937 k) African Bees of the Genera Ceratina, Halictus and Megachile. Wiliam Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles. 254 pp.

Friese, H. (1909 a) Die Bienen Afrikas nach dem Stande unserer heutigen Kenntnisse. In: Schultze, L. Zoologische und Anthropologische Ergebenisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Sudafrika ausgefuhrt in den jahren 1903 - 1905, Band 2. Denkschriften der Medizinisch - naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 14, 83 - 476, pls. IX - X.

Gerstaecker, C. E. A. (1857) Diagnosen der von Peters in Mossambique gesammelten Kafer und Hymenoptera (Apiariae, Vespariae). Bericht uber die Verhandlungen der Klg. Sachsischen Gesellschaft (Akademie) der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Math. - Phys. Kl., 1857, 460 - 464.

Pasteels, J. J. (1965) Revision des Megachilidae (Hymenoptera Apoidea) De L'Afrique Noire. Les Genres Creightoniella, Chalicodoma et Megachile (s. str.). Musee Royal de L'Afrique Centrale - Tervuren, Belgique Annales, Serie In - 8 - Sciences Zoologiques, 137, 1 - 563.

Pasteels, J. J. (1973) Especes nouvelles de Megachilidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) d'Afrique Noire. 2. Genre Megachile Latrielle (partim). Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines, 87 (4), 697 - 727.

Pasteels, J. J. (1976 b) Revision du sous - genre subsaharien Eurymella (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Megachilidae). Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Royale Belg d'Entomologie, 112, 281 - 300.

Spinola, M. (1838) Compte rendu des Hymenopteres recueillis par M. Fischer pendant son voyage en Egypte, et communiques par M. le Docteur Waltl a Maximilien Spinola. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, 7, 437 - 546.