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Megachile (Callomegachile) mortyana Dalla Torre 1896
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
87. Megachile apicata Smith, 1865
Fig. 86
Megachile apicata Smith, 1865: 93, ♂.
Type material examined
Holotype
INDONESIA • ♂; M. [Morty]; [probably between 1 Oct. 1860 – 31 Jan. 1861]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2841.
Type locality
Morty Island [= Morotai].
Current status
Megachile (Callomegachile) mortyana Dalla Torre, 1896. Megachile apicata Smith, 1865 is a junior primary homonym of Megachile apicata Smith, 1853 (described from Australia). Dalla Torre (1896: 440) noticed this, and provided a replacement name. For collecting date, see Section 84.
Distribution
Indonesia (North Maluku: Morotai) (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 pages 132-133, 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-HYME2841
- Event date
- 1860-10-01
- Verbatim event date
- 1860-10-01/1861-01-31
- Scientific name authorship
- Dalla Torre
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Genus
- Megachile
- Species
- mortyana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megachile (Callomegachile) mortyana Torre, 1896 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
- Dalla Torre K. W. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, Apidae 10 (Anthophila). G. Engelmann, Leipzig. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10348
- Smith F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. Trustees of the British Museum, London. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.20858
- 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].