Megachile senex Smith, 1865

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), European Journal of Taxonomy 1028, pp. 1-144 : 131-132

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1028.3129
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scientific name	Megachile senex Smith, 1865
status

Treatment

86. Megachile senex Smith, 1865 View in CoL

Fig. 85

Megachile senex Smith, 1865: 92 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; N. [New Guinea]; [1861]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2840 .

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: 236) 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) tertia Dalla Torre, 1896 . Megachile senex Smith, 1865 is a junior primary homonym of Megachile senex Smith, 1853 (described from South Africa, although this was a mislabelled specimen) and Megachile senex Smith, 1862 (described from Australia). Dalla Torre (1896: 450) noticed this, and provided a replacement name.

Distribution

Indonesia ( Maluku, West Papua) ( Smith 1865; Ascher & Pickering 2024).