Megachile leachella Curtis 1828

Praz, Christophe, Al-Shahat, Ahmed M. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2021, Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Eutricharaea Thomson in Egypt, with a key to the species and the description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Anthophila Megachilidae, genus Megachile Latreille), Zootaxa 5032 (3), pp. 301-330 : 306

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scientific name	Megachile leachella Curtis 1828
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Megachile leachella Curtis 1828 View in CoL

Megachile leachella Curtis 1828 View in CoL : explanation to Plate 218, [sex not indicated], “[ England]”.

Megachile dorsalis Pérez 1879: 223 View in CoL , ♀ nec ♂, “Bordeaux; environs de l’étang de Cazaux; Arcachon; Royan [ France]”. Lecto- type ♀, by designation of Zanden (1996: 886), MNHN.

Perezia maura Ferton 1914: 233 , ♀ [gynandromorph specimen], “Cimetière de Djidjelli” [Jijel, Algeria]. Holotype intersex, MNHN. Preoccupied, not Megachile maura Cresson 1865 View in CoL . Synonymy with M. centuncularis View in CoL in Pasteels (1969: 248). Synonymy with M. leachella View in CoL in Zanden (1988: 55).

Megachile leachella maadiensis Zanden 1986: 67 View in CoL , ♂, “[no locality given: Egypt]”. Details on type material or type locality not given.

Examined material: EGYPT: 1 ♀, Kairo, 3.1935, leg. A. Nadig ( ETHZ) ; 1 ♂, Ismailia Suez Canal Univ , 28.4.2007, leg. J. Rozen ( AMNH) ; 1 ♂, Ismailia, Suez Canal Univ , 24.4.2007, leg. J. Rozen ( AMNH) ; 1 ♀, Ismailia, El Qantara, 18.v.2011, leg. M. Shebl & S. Kamel ( CPCN) .

Distribution: Most of the Western Palearctic.

Diagnosis: See Amiet et al. (2004), Scheuchl (2006), Schwarz and Gusenleitner (2011, 2012).