Megachile (Callomegachile) terminalis Smith 1858
Authors/Creators
- 1. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR, Leiden, the Netherlands.
- 2. Imbacher Weg 59, Leverkusen, 51379, Germany.
- 3. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191, Stuttgart, Germany.
- 4. Life Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, OX 1 3 PW, UK.
Description
34. Megachile terminalis Smith, 1858
Fig. 35
Megachile terminalis Smith, 1858a: 7, ♀.
Type material examined
Holotype
INDONESIA • ♀; Mak [Makassar, Sulawesi]; [2 Sep.–18 Dec. 1856]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2793.
Type locality
Celebes [= Sulawesi].
Notes
Baker (1993: 201) wrote the following:
“A ♀ in the UMO type collection, labelled ‘Mak’ [white disc] and ‘ Megachile terminalis Smith’ [white rectangular label] is the HOLOTYPE of this species and it has now been labelled accordingly. The type is intact but for the loss of the apical segments of R tarsus I”.
The specimen was not labelled as holotype; this has now been rectified. Baker also synonymised Megachile albocaudata Friese, 1903 with M. terminalis, this being accepted onto the global bee checklist (Ascher & Pickering 2024). The former species was described from Kalidupa-Buton [= Kaledupa Island] which is just to the south-east of Sulawesi. We have examined the type of M. albocaudata, and agree with this synonymy, and we formally synonymise M. albocaudata under M. terminalis syn. nov.
Current status
Megachile (Callomegachile) terminalis Smith, 1858 (Ascher & Pickering 2024).
Distribution
Indonesia (Sulawesi) (Smith 1858a; Ascher & Pickering 2024).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- OUMNH
- Material sample ID
- ENT-HYME2793
- Event date
- 1856-09-02
- Verbatim event date
- 1856-09-02/12-18
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Genus
- Megachile
- Species
- terminalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megachile (Callomegachile) terminalis Smith, 1858 sec. Wood, Risch, Orr & Hogan, 2025
References
- Smith F. 1858 a. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Celebes by A. R. Wallace. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 3 (9): 4-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1858.tb02506.x
- Baker D. B. 1993. The Type Material of the Nominal Species of Exotic Bees Described by Frederick Smith (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). PhD thesis, Oxford University, St John's College.
- Friese H. 1903. Neue Arten der Bienengattung Xylocopa Latr. aus der neotropischen und orientalischen Region (Hym.). Zeitschrift fur systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 3: 202-208. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13746758
- Ascher J. S. & J. Pickering. 2024. Discover Life Bee Species Guide and World Checklist (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Anthophila). Available from https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Apoidea_species&flags=HAS [accessed 12 Oct. 2024].