Nomia apicalis Smith, 1857

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 : 10

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1028.3129
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:06182A07-5DB6-4916-86AF-673865690CE2
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scientific name	Nomia apicalis Smith, 1857
status

Treatment

4. Nomia apicalis Smith, 1857 View in CoL

Nomia apicalis Smith, 1857: 43 View in CoL , ♂.

Type material examined

None.

Type locality

Singapore.

Notes

Placing N. apicalis View in CoL in combination with the genus Maculonomia Wu, 1982 , Baker (1993: 192) wrote the following:

“A ♂ in the UMO type collection, labelled ‘SING.’ and ‘SING. 69’ [on either side of white disc (the ‘69’ does not indicate a date: a number of Wallace’s Malayan bees were similarly serially numbered) and ‘ Nomia apicalis View in CoL Smith’ [blue paper] is the HOLOTYPE of this species. [ Melanomia Pauly, 1991 View in CoL , and Terminomia Baker MS, in Coll., are synonyms of Maculonomia Wu, 1982 .]”.

The holotype specimen is currently on loan (since 2016), so no photographs are provided.

Current status

Maculonomia apicalis ( Smith, 1857) ( Pauly 2009) View in CoL .

Distribution

China to Indonesia ( Kalimantan, Java), including Singapore ( Pauly 2009; Ascher et al. 2022). A revision of this genus is required due to its taxonomic complexity, ongoing process of species description, and multiple species that are described from only one sex (e.g., Majumder et al. 2025; Tran et al. 2025).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Halictidae
Genus	Nomia