Megachile cornigera Friese.
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Megachile cornigera Friese.
Figs 18–19
Megachile cornigera Friese, 1904: 336, female lectotype (here designated) (TMSA) South Africa; Michener 1968: 345 –347, 353.
Megachile (Eumegachile) cornigera Friese: Friese 1909: 325, 328, 331, 333, 340. Creightoniella [!] cornigera (Friese): Pasteels 1965: 14, 15, 18, 29–30. Creightonella cornigera (Friese): Michener 1969: 480.
Discussion. Friese (1904) described this species from the Sunday’s River, South Africa. A specimen labelled as the type is not known, but part of the type series is in TMSA, and this specimen with the label data ‘Sunday’s River, 27.xii.1897, H. Brauns’ is here designated as the lectotype.
Diagnosis. Female. Vestiture on head and mesosoma mostly black, face partly white, mesepisternum and legs pallid, T1 mostly black, white anterolaterally, T2–T4 black with orange distal fringes (amount of orange increases from T2 to T4), T5–T6 orange, scopa orange (Fig. 18a–b). Lengths: face 2.9 mm; scutum 2.1 mm; forewing 8.7 mm; body 18.0 mm. Structure. Clypeus three times as wide as long, convex and punctuate above, concave and glabrous below, strongly tuberculate ventrolaterally; ventral edge distinctly concave mediolaterally, pointed medially (Fig. 18a); clypeocellus: clypeus 1:0.5; scopal hairs blunt and thickened distally.
Male. Unknown.
Distribution (Fig. 19). This species is widespread in southern Africa, but rarely collected.
Material examined. Type material. Female lectotype of Megachile cornigera: ‘Sunday’s River, 27.xii.1897, L. Brauns’, [33.43S 25.51E] in TMSA.
Additional material. Namibia. Grootfontein [19.34S 18.07E], xii.1918, R. Lightfoot (1 female, SAMC). South Africa. Barberton [25.47S 31.30E], xii.1911, H. Edwards (1 female, SAMC); Port St. John [31.38S 29.32E], xi.1917, H. Swinny (1 female, TMSA); Gxulu River [33.07S 27.44E], East London, 15xii.1970, F.W. Gess (1 specimen, AMSA); Table Farm, Grahamstown [33.18S 26.32E], 12.ii.1971, F.W. Gess (2 specimens, AMSA); Hilton, Grahamstown, 2.i.1978, 5.xii.1980, 3.xii.1982, 6.xii.1985, F.W. Gess, D.W. Gess (6 specimens, AMSA).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Friese.
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Genus
- Megachile
- Species
- cornigera
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Michener, C. D. (1968) Nests of some African Megachilid Bees, with Description of a New Hoplitis (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of southern Africa 31 (2), 337 - 359.
- Friese, H. (1909) Die Bienen Afrikas nach dem Stande unserer heutigen Kenntnisse. In: Schultze, L. Zoologische und Anthropologische Ergebenisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Sudafrika ausgefuhrt in den jahren 1903 - 1905, Band 2. Denkschriften der Medizinisch - naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 14, 83 - 476, pls. IX - X.
- Pasteels, J. J. (1965) Revision des Megachilidae (Hymenoptera Apoidea) De L'Afrique Noire. Les Genres Creightoniella, Chalicodoma et Megachile (s. str.). Musee Royal de L'Afrique Centrale - Tervuren, Belgique Annales, Serie In - 8 - Sciences Zoologiques (137), 1 - 563.
- Michener, C. D. (1969) Notes on the nests and life histories of some African Halictid Bees with description of a new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 94, 473 - 497.