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Megachile (Eutricharaea) eurymera Smith

Eardley, Connal, 2012, 3601, Zootaxa 3601, pp. 1-133 : 39

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 Megachile (Eutricharaea) eurymera Smith
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Megachile (Eutricharaea) eurymera Smith View in CoL

( Figs 26–28)

Megachile eurimera View in CoL [!] Smith, 1853: 163, female holotype ( NHML) South Africa .

Megachile eurymera Smith View in CoL : Friese 1909a: 327, 384.

Megachile (Eurymella) eurymera Smith View in CoL : Pasteels 1965: 64, 65, 66, 69, 80, 81–84, 86, 91, 97, 101, 118; Pasteels 1976b: 283; Schulten 1977: 47; Pauly 1998: 27.

Megachile (Eutricharaea) eurymera Smith View in CoL : Michener, 2000: 537, 556.

Megachile flavida Friese, 1903b: 289–290 View in CoL , female holotype (ZMHB) South Africa; Pasteels 1965: 81, syn.

Megachile flava Friese, 1903b: 290 View in CoL , male syntypes (IRSN, ZMHB) Senegal; Friese 1904b: 332; Strand 1911a: 85; Strand 1911h: 134; Friese 1925a: 507; Hedicke 1931: 35–36, syn. garua View in CoL ; Cockerell 1933u: 144; Cockerell 1937k: 171, 175, 194; Friese 1941: 102. Syn. nov.

Megachile (Megachile) flava Friese View in CoL : Friese 1909a: 326, 330, 333, 363–364.

Megachile garua Strand, 1911a: 85 View in CoL , male holotype (ZMHB) Cameroun; Hedicke 1931: 35–36, syn. flava View in CoL ; Cockerell 1937k: 176; Pasteels 1965: 81. Syn. nov.

Megachile tarsignata Cockerell, 1920b: 288 , 292, male holotype (type depository unknown) South Africa; Cockerell 1936o: 554, syn. flavida View in CoL ; Cockerell 1937k: 132, 168, 171; Pasteels 1965: 81. Syn. nov.

Megachile rhodoleucura Cockerell, 1937k: 125 View in CoL , 132, 224, female holotype (NHML) Zimbabwe. Syn. nov.

Chalicodoma (Pseudomegachile) rhodoleucura (Cockerell) View in CoL : Pasteels 1965: 384, 427–429, 430.

The types of flavida View in CoL , flava View in CoL , garua View in CoL and rhodoleucura View in CoL were studied, that of tarsignata is not in the NHML where it should be housed. Cockerell (1935o) synonymised tarsignata with flavida View in CoL and Pasteels (1965) synonymised flavida View in CoL with eurymera View in CoL and garua View in CoL with flava View in CoL . These synonymies are confirmed. And flava View in CoL and rhodoleucura View in CoL are here synonymised with eurymera View in CoL , making garua View in CoL a synonym of eurymera View in CoL .

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1920 b) XXV. On South African Bees, chiefly collected in Natal. Annals of the Durban Museum, 2, 286 - 318.

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1933 u) African Bees of the Genus Megachile. Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines, 23 (2), 138 - 157.

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1936 o) Descriptions and Records of Bees. - CLVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (ser. 10) 17, 553 - 560.

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. (1903 b) Neue afrikanische Megachile - Arten II (Hym.). Zeitschrift fur systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 3, 273 - 290.

Friese, H. (1904 b) Neue afrikanische Megachile - Arten 111. (Hym.). Zeitschrift fur systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, 4, 330 - 336.

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.

Friese, H. (1925 a) III. Nachtrag zu`Bienen Afrika'. Zoologischer Jahrbucher, 49, 501 - 512.

Friese, H. (1941). Apidae aus Sud - Ost - Africa gesammelt von Missionar Henri A. Junod Dr Phil. h. c. (1863 - 1934) (Hym. Apid.) Eos Madrid, 15, 95 - 107.

Hedicke, H. (1931) Beitrage zur Synonymie der Apiden (Hym.). I. Mitteilungen der Deutsche entomologischen Gesellschaft, 2, 34 - 38.

Michener, C. D. (2000) The Bees of the World. The John Hopkins University Press. Baltimore and London. 913 pp.

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

Pauly, A. (1998) Hymenoptera Apoidea du Gabon. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren, Belgique. Annales Sciences Zoologique, 282, 1 - 121.

Schulten, G. G. M. (1977) Megachilidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) from Malawi (Central Africa). The genera Creightonella, Megachile (s. str.) and Chalicodoma. Beaufortia, 26 (331), 43 - 76.

Smith, F. (1853) Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Part I, Andrenidae and Apidae. 197 pp., pls. I - VI.

Strand, E. (1911 a) Neue Afrikanische Arten der Bienengattungen Melecta, Crocisa und Megachile. Revue zoologique africaines, 1, 78 - 85.

Strand, E. (1911 h) Neue afrikanische Megachile - Arten. Entomologische Rundschau, 28, 124 - 134.

NHML

Natural History Museum, Tripoli

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile

Specimens