Amegilla (Asaropoda), Cockerell, 1926.

Leijs, Remko, Batley, Michael & Hogendoorn, Katja, 2017, The genus Amegilla (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Anthophorini) in Australia: A revision of the subgenera Notomegilla and Zonamegilla, ZooKeys 653, pp. 79-140 : 95

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.653.11177

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scientific name

Amegilla (Asaropoda)
status

 

Subgenus Asaropoda Cockerell, 1926.

Asaropoda Cockerell, 1926, p. 216. Type species: Saropoda bombiformis Smith, 1854 (original designation).

Diagnosis.

Length 13-24 mm; pubescence brown to grey (mostly black in aurata from New Guinea and the Bismark Archipelago); maxillary palpus with last segment fused to fifth segment so that maxillary palpus appears five-segmented.; apical margins of male metasomal sterna modified; S4 usually produced medially, rounded and having a thick brush of hair; S5 broadly and deeply emarginate; S6 shallowly emarginate medially with one or two patches of hair laterally; S7 somewhat quadrate, medioapically emarginate; S8 apically narrowed; apex of gonocoxite of male bilobed with long narrow upper lobe and small ventral lobe; gonostylus of male well developed. Forewing conspicuously hairy near costal margin, 1st discoidal cell without hairs, other closed cells with hairs sparse or absent; gonostylus of male distinct, slender, and directed apically.

Distribution.

Widely distributed across Australia, New Guinea and the Bismark Archipelago, but not recorded from Tasmania.

Number of species in Australia.

Cardale (1993) listed 25 names of which one, Amegilla alpha , is here moved to the subgenus Zonamegilla . An additional species, paracalva, was described by Brooks (1993). The species belonging to this subgenus are in need of revision.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Amegilla

Loc

Amegilla (Asaropoda)

Leijs, Remko, Batley, Michael & Hogendoorn, Katja 2017
2017
Loc

Asaropoda

Cockerell 1926
1926
Loc

Saropoda bombiformis

Smith 1854
1854