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Megachile (Callomegachile) nidulator Smith 1865
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
85. Megachile nidulator Smith, 1865
Fig. 84
Megachile nidulator Smith, 1865: 92, ♀.
Type material examined
Holotype
INDONESIA • ♀; N. [New Guinea]; [1861]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2839.
Type locality
New Guinea. Allen visited the area around Sorong in West Papua (probably) in the first half of 1861 (Wallace 1869; Baker 1993), and so the type locality can be considered to be Indonesia (West Papua).
Notes
Baker (1993: 235) identified this specimen as the holotype and stated that he labelled it, but we found no type label; this has now been rectified.
Current status
Megachile (Callomegachile) nidulator Smith, 1865 (Ascher & Pickering 2024).
Distribution
Indonesia (West Papua) (Smith 1865; Ascher & Pickering 2024).
Notes
Published as part of Wood, T. J., Risch, S., Orr, M. C. & Hogan, J. E., 2025, An illustrated type catalogue of the bee species collected by Alfred Russel Wallace and described by Frederick Smith from Southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 1028 on page 130, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1028.3129, http://zenodo.org/record/18035376
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- OUMNH
- Material sample ID
- ENT-HYME2839
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Genus
- Megachile
- Species
- nidulator
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megachile (Callomegachile) nidulator Smith, 1865 sec. Wood, Risch, Orr & Hogan, 2025
References
- Smith F. 1865. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects from the islands of Sumatra, Sula, Gilolo, Salwatty, and New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 8 (30): 61-94. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1865.tb02422.x
- Wallace A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago. Reprint of 1 st edition combined into single volume, Penguin Classics, London, 2014.
- 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.
- 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].