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Megachile (Amegachile) nasalis SMITH 1879

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Megachile (Amegachile) nasalis SMITH, 1879

Megachile (Amegachile) nasalis SMITH, 1879: PASTEELS 1965: 177 (key ♂), 179 (key ♀), 185 (tax., descr. ♀ ♂, Eritrea not mentioned), 187 (figs 406-411).

Megachile nasalis SMITH, 1879: EARDLEY & URBAN 2010: 313 (cat. Afr. reg. (Eritrea, not Ethiopia)).

* Megachile volkmanni FRIESE, 1904: MAGRETTI 1906: 10 (Sabarguma).

Megachile (Amegachile) volkmanni FRIESE, 1904: FRIESE 1909: 326 (cat. Africa), 331 (key ♂), 335 (key ♀), 370 (tax., descr. ♀ ♂, Eritrea without locality), 467 (cat. Africa).

* Megachile volkmanni nigrescens n.var.: FRIESE 1904: 300 (descr. ♂, Eritrea without locality).

Megachile (Amegachile) volkmanni var. nigrescens FRIESE, 1904: FRIESE 1909: 370 (tax., descr. ♀ ♂, Eritrea without locality).

Megachile nasalis var. nigrescens FRIESE, 1904: COCKERELL 1937: 208 (tax., Eritrea without locality).

Megachile volkmanni var. nigrescens FRIESE, 1904: PASTEELS 1965: 185 (syn.).

Megachile volkmanni nigrescens FRIESE, 1904: RASMUSSEN & ASCHER 2008: 75 (cat. taxa described by Friese).

Distribution:Sabarguma.

Megachile nasalis, which is widely distributed in the Afrotropical region, is not recorded from the neighbour countries.

Notes

Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2019, A catalogue of the Megachilidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) of Eritrea, pp. 1375-1389 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2) on pages 1382-1383, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3745481

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Biodiversity

Family
Megachilidae
Genus
Megachile
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
SMITH
Species
nasalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Megachile (Amegachile) nasalis SMITH, 1879 sec. Madl, 2019

References

  • PASTEELS J. J. (1965): Revision des Megachilidae (Hymenoptera Apoidea) de L'Afrique Noire I. Les genres Creightoniella, Chalicodoma et Megachile (s. str.). - Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale - Tervuren, Belgique, Annales, Serie In- 8 °, Sciences Zoologiques, 137: 579 pp.
  • EARDLEY, C. & R. URBAN (2010): Catalogue of Afrotropical bees (Hymenoptera): Apoidea): Apiformes). - Zootaxa 2455: 1 - 548.
  • FRIESE H. (1904): Neue afrikanische Bienen (Hym.) (Besonders aus dem Sammel-Ergebnis des Missionar JUNOD in Shilouvane). - Zeitschrift fur Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 4 (5): 296 - 303.
  • MAGRETTI P. (1906): Materiali per la conoscenza della Fauna Eritrea. Imenotteri. Fam. Mutillidi. Con appunti del viaggio in Colonia. - Bullettino de la Societa Entomologica Italiana 37 (1): 3 - 96.
  • FRIESE H. (1909): Die Bienen Afrikas nach dem Stande unserer heutigen Kenntnisse. - In: Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Sudafrika ausgefuhrt in den Jahren 1903 - 1905 mit Unterstutzung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 2 (2): 83 - 476, pls 9, 10.
  • COCKERELL T. D. A. (1937): African Bees of the Genera Ceratina, Halictus and Megachile. - London (Trustees of the British Museum): VII-XVI, 254 pp.
  • RASMUSSEN C. & J. S. ASCHER (2008): Heinrich Friese (1860 - 1948): names proposed and notes on a pioneer melittologist (Hymenoptera, Anthophila). - Zootaxa 1833: 1 - 118.