Species Amegilla (Zonamegilla) alpha (Cockerell, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Saropoda alpha Cockerell, T.D.A. 1904. New and little known bees in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 14: 203-208 [Date published 31/12/1904] [204].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 17B.669 ♂, Australia.
• Sarapoda bombiformis var. α Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London : British Museum pp. 199-465. [Date published 31/12/1854] [318] [invalid name].

Generic Combinations

• Amegilla (Zonamegilla) alpha (Cockerell, 1904). —
  Leijs, R., Batley, M. & Hogendoorn, K. 2017. The genus Amegilla (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Anthophorini) in Australia: A revision of the subgenera Notomegilla and Zonamegilla. ZooKeys 653: 79–140 [109]
• Amegilla (Asaropoda) alpha (Cockerell, 1904). —
  Michener, C.D. 1965. A classification of the bees of the Australian and South Pacific regions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 130: 1-362 [Date published 31/12/1965] [217]

Introduction

Redescription in Leijs et al. (2017)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. Descriptions and records of bees. CXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 18: 216-227 [Date published 31/12/1926] (as Asaropoda alpha (Cockerell, 1904))

Leijs, R., Batley, M. & Hogendoorn, K. 2017. The genus Amegilla (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Anthophorini) in Australia: A revision of the subgenera Notomegilla and Zonamegilla. ZooKeys 653: 79–140 [109]

Rayment, T. 1951. A critical revision of species in the genus Asaropoda by new characters. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 17: 65-80 [Date published 31/12/1951] (distribution)

History of changes