Amegilla ( Glossamegilla ) anthracina (Gribodo, 1894)

Carion, Frédéric, Gérard, Maxence, Ghisbain, Guillaume & Wood, Thomas J., 2025, Unravelling Amegilla (Glossamegilla) diversity across the Wallace Line: new species, wing morphometrics, and biogeographic boundaries (Hymenoptera, Apidae), ZooKeys 1256, pp. 1-79 : 1-79

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scientific name	Amegilla ( Glossamegilla ) anthracina (Gribodo, 1894)
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Treatment

Amegilla ( Glossamegilla) anthracina (Gribodo, 1894)

Anthophora violacea var. anthracina Gribodo, 1894 a: 388 View in CoL , ♀ [ Indonesia: Tanimbar, MSNG].

Material examined.

Indonesia • 1 ♀; Tenimber [Tanimbar] ; [likely 1892]; [likely W. Doherty leg.]; MSNG ( lectotype designated by Wood & Bossert in press) • 1 ♀; Tenimber [Tanimbar] ; [likely 1892]; [likely W. Doherty leg.]; MSNG ( paralectotype)

Remarks.

This “ variety ”, known from only two females from the Gribodo collection ( MSNG), will be formally elevated to species status by Wood and Bossert (in press) based on morphological and strong biogeographical differences with A. violacea (Lepeletier, 1841) . Considering the subgeneric placement of A. violacea ( Brooks 1988) , the similarity of A. violacea var. anthracina with A. violacea , the long tongue as well as the short velvety pubescence covering the metasoma, this “ variety ” should logically be considered as a Glossamegilla and is therefore included in our work in order to increase the utility of the identification key.

Distribution.

Amegilla var. anthranica is currently only known from the Tanimbar islands, in Indonesia ( Gribodo 1894 a).