Species Amegilla (Zonamegilla) cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)

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• Andrena cingulata Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [378].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀, Australia (as New Holland).
• Anthophora emendata Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxi 240 pp. [Date published 31/12/1879] [123].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (described as ♀), Australia.
• Anthophora emendata gilberti Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 392-403 [Date published 31/12/1905] [396].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, QLD.
• Anthophora lilacine Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 81-98 [Date published 31/12/1921] [84].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂, Kuranda, QLD.
• Anthophora fabriciana Rayment, T. 1947. A critical revision of species in the zonata group of Anthophora by new characters (Part II). Treubia 19: 46-73 [Date published 31/12/1947] [53] [nom. nov. for Anthophora zonata cincta Dours, 1869].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 32-034445 ♀ (labelled “Anthophora cincta, Dours”), “ No 31; In a tunnelled cell in plaster in the walls of an old house”.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brooks, R.W. 1988. Systematics and phylogeny of the anthophorine bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae; Anthophorini). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 53: 436-575 [Date published 31/12/1988] [562]
• 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 [114]

Introduction

Redescription in Leijs et al. (2017)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest gregariously in decomposing sandstone, flower visiting record: mango, tomatoes, Hypochoeris L. [Asteraceae], Ipomoea L. [Convolvulaceae], Lantana L. [Verbenaceae], Persoonia Sm. [Proteaceae], Rosa L. [Rosaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] (Anthophora lilacine emended to Anthophora lilacina Cockerell, 1921)

Dalla Torre, K.W. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum Hucusque Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Apidae (Anthophila). Lipsiae : G. Engelmann Vol. x 643 pp. [Date published 31/12/1896] (as Podalirius cingulatus (Fabricius, 1775))

Dollin, A., Batley, M., Robinson, M. & Faulkner, B. 2000. Native Bees of the Sydney Region. A Field Guide. North Richmond, NSW : Australian Native Bee Research Centre 70 pp. [52]

Fabricius, J.C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum : Secundum; Ordines, Genera, Species, Adjectis Synonymis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus. Brunsvigae : Carolum Reichard xiv 439 pp. (as Megilla cingulata (Fabricius, 1775))

Friese, H. 1911. Zur Bienenfauna Neuguineas und der benachbarten Gebiete (Hym.) (Nachtrag II). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1911: 448-453 [Date published 31/12/1911] (taxonomy, as Anthophora emendata (Smith, 1879))

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 [114]

Meade-Waldo, G. 1914. Notes on the Apidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 45-58 [Date published 31/12/1914] (taxonomy)

Michener, C.D. & Houston, T.F. 1991. Apoidea. pp. 993-1000 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 2 pp. 543-1137. (illustration)

Rayment, T. 1935. A Cluster of Bees. Sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees, with specific descriptions of over 100 new species, and an introduction by Professor E.F. Phillips, D.Ph., Cornell University, U.S.A. Sydney : Endeavour Press. 752 pp. (biology)

Rayment, T. 1944. A critical revision of species in the zonata group of Anthophora by new characters (Part I). Treubia (Japanese edition) 1: 1-30 [Date published 31/12/1944: dated 1942, actual date of issue 1944] (illustration, as Anthophora gilberti Cockerell, 1905)

Rayment, T. 1947. A critical revision of species in the zonata group of Anthophora by new characters (Part II). Treubia 19: 46-73 [Date published 31/12/1947] (taxonomy)

Sichel, J. 1869. in Dours, J.A. Monographie iconographique du genre Anthophora, Latr. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Nord de la France 2: 5-211 [Date published 31/12/1869] (as Anthophora zonata cingulata (Fabricius, 1775))

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