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

leachella -species group

Note: The identity of M. inexspectata Rebmann 1968 , described from a single male from Turkey, remains unclear since the holotype is in poor condition. Although this species has been mentioned in the Sinai based on identifications performed by one of us (CP) ( Norfolk and Dathe 2019), we omit this species from the present treatment. We will settle the identity of this species and provide a detailed description in a future work.