Species Amegilla (Notomegilla) aeruginosa (Smith, 1854)

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• Anthophora aeruginosa 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] [336].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 17B.659 1 ♂, Hunter River, NSW.
  Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Hunter River, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [98].
• Anthophora kershawi 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] [21].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 32-033849 ♂, Claudie River, QLD.
• Anthophora sybilae 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] [22].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC 32-034555 ♂, McIntosh Holding, QLD; ANIC 32-034554 ♀, Magnetic Island, QLD; ANIC 32-033280 ♀, Edungalba, Queensland; ANIC 32-033879 ♀, Litchfield, Daly R., NT.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [98]

Introduction

Redescription in Leijs et al. (2017)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Solanum L. [Solanaceae].

General References

Anderson, G.J. & Symon, D. 1988. Insect foragers on Solanum flowers in Australia. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens 75: 842-852 [Date published 31/12/1988] (flower record)

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] (subgeneric placement, illustration)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 292-301 [Date published 31/12/1905] (taxonomy)

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 aeruginosus (Smith, 1854))

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 [98]

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] (taxonomy)

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