Amegilla (Asaropoda) scymna (Gribodo, 1894)

Leijs, Remko, Dorey, James & Hogendoorn, Katja, 2020, The genus Amegilla (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Anthophorini) in Australia: a revision of the subgenus Asaropoda, ZooKeys 908, pp. 45-122 : 45

Amegilla (Asaropoda) scymna (Gribodo, 1894)

Anthophora scymna Gribodo, 1893: 389.

Type.

Holotype of A. scymna , female, Queensland Australia, Civic Museum of Natural History at Genoa (MSNG) /Gr (box 28) holotype ♀ "Australia / Queensland" (hw, G) " Anthophora / scymna / ♀ Grib / Tipo / D. Gribodo." (hw, G) "revid. 1956 / M. A. Lieftinck" (pr + hw, L). References: Brooks 1988: 515, 572 (listed); Ruggiero 2009 (checklist); Ascher & Pickering 2014 (checklist). Remarks: in Ruggiero (2009) and Ascher and Pickering (2014) the date of description is erroneously reported as “1893” ( Penati and Mariotti 2015).

Diagnosis.

Female paraclypeal and supraclypeal marks absent, tibial scopa pale orange, T2 without band of black hairs anteriorly. Scutum and terga pubescence uniformly ochre brown.

Remarks.

This specimen could not be matched with any other species, or any of the specimens examined. Based on the diagnostic characters mentioned above it would key out to A. flava (pg. 59 couplet 33), but the shape markings on the clypeus colouration and their distributions do not match.