85. Megachile nidulator Smith, 1865

Fig. 84

Megachile nidulator Smith, 1865: 92, ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; N. [New Guinea]; [1861]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2839.

Type locality

New Guinea. Allen visited the area around Sorong in West Papua (probably) in the first half of 1861 (Wallace 1869; Baker 1993), and so the type locality can be considered to be Indonesia (West Papua).

Notes

Baker (1993: 235) identified this specimen as the holotype and stated that he labelled it, but we found no type label; this has now been rectified.

Current status

Megachile (Callomegachile) nidulator Smith, 1865 (Ascher & Pickering 2024).

Distribution

Indonesia (West Papua) (Smith 1865; Ascher & Pickering 2024).