Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov, 1951

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, Zootaxa 5541 (3), pp. 251-293 : 288

37. Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov, 1951

( Fig. 37a–d )

Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov, 1951: 579 , ♂.

Type locality: Jeddah, Makkah Province ( Saudi Arabia).

Published (original) locality: “Dzhedda, Aravia”.

Holotype: ♂, N 114 [ Saudi Arabia, Makkah Province, Jeddah, 39°10′N 21°32′E], [February, N.N. Zhehzhurist leg.] // Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov, Typ. V. Popov, 1950 [handwritten by V. Popov] // Holotypus Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov, 1951 <red label> // Meliturgula minima , ♂, Det. Patiny 2002 // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002627.

Current status. Meliturgula (Meliturgula) scriptifrons (Walker, 1871) (according to Michener 2007: 293).

Distribution. Africa, Saudi Arabia ( Ascher & Pickering 2024).

Figures

FIGURE 37. Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov, 1951. Holotype, male: a—habitus, lateral view and labels; b—head, frontal view; c—mesosoma, dorsal view; d—metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 mm.