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Megachile flabellipes Perez 1895

  • 1. info fauna - Swiss Zoological Records Center, Avenue de Bellevaux 51, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland. & Institute of Biology, University of Neuchatel, Rue Emile-Argand 16, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
  • 2. Zoology Department, Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar University, P. O. Box 11884, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. ahmedelshahat 44 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8013 - 5735
  • 3. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

Description

Megachile flabellipes Pérez 1895

Megachile flabellipes Pérez 1895: 23, ♀ ♂, “[no locality given: France]”.

Type material: Several syntypes have been examined, all probably originating from France even if this species was described in Pérez’s work “ Mellifères de Barbarie ” (MNHN).

Additional material: EGYPT: 1 ♂, Sinai, Wadi Tubug 1600 m, 23.6.1998, leg. Freidberg & Kaplan (SMNH); see also Norfolk and Dathe (2019).

Distribution: Widely distributed in southern Europe and from the Sinai Peninsula through the Middle East, eastwards to Iran.

Diagnosis: see Amiet et al. (2004), Scheuchl (2006).

Notes

Published as part of Praz, Christophe, Al-Shahat, Ahmed M. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2021, Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Eutricharaea Thomson in Egypt, with a key to the species and the description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Anthophila Megachilidae, genus Megachile Latreille), pp. 301-330 in Zootaxa 5032 (3) on page 312, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5032.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5494653

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN , SMNH
Event date
1998-06-23
Family
Megachilidae
Genus
Megachile
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Perez
Species
flabellipes
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Verbatim event date
1998-06-23
Taxonomic concept label
Megachile flabellipes Perez, 1895 sec. Praz, Al-Shahat & Gadallah, 2021

References

  • Perez, J. (1895) Especes nouvelles de Melliferes de Barbarie. (Diagnoses Preliminaires). Gounouilhou, Bordeaux, 64 pp.
  • Norfolk, O. & Dathe, H. H. (2019) Filling the Egyptian pollinator knowledge-gap. Checklist of flower-visiting insects in South Sinai, with new records for Egypt. Beitrage zur Entomologie, 69, 175 - 184. https: // doi. org / 10.21248 / contrib. entomol. 69.1.175 - 184
  • Amiet, F., Hermann, M., Muller, A. & Neumeyer, R. (2004) Apidae 4: Anthidium, Chelostoma, Coelioxys, Dioxys, Heriades, Lithurgus, Megachile, Osmia, Stelis. Fauna Helvetica, 9, 1 - 274.
  • Scheuchl, E. (2006) Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Wildbienen Deutschlands und Osterreichs. Band II: Megachilidae - Melittidae. Second, revised edition. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 192 pp.