Nomia elegans 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 : 12-14

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scientific name	Nomia elegans Smith, 1857
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6. Nomia elegans Smith, 1857 View in CoL

Fig. 5

Nomia elegans Smith, 1857: 44 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

MALAYSIA • ♀; Mal. 74 [ Malacca]; [ 13 Jul.–25 Sep. 1854]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2768 .

Type locality

Malacca.

Notes

Baker (1993: 194) wrote the following: “A ♀ in the UMO type collection, labelled ‘MAL. 74’ [white disc] and ‘ Nomia elegans Smith’ [blue paper, Smith] is the HOLOTYPE of this species. A second ♀, in the main collection, labelled ‘Mak’ [Makassar], ‘Celebes’ [both on blue discs], ‘ N. elegans Smith’ [white paper] and ‘Coll Smith 1879’ is superficially similar but not conspecific. This specimen can have no type status and has been labelled accordingly.

No elegans have been identified among recent extensive collections from peninsular Malaya (which did not, however, include any material from Malacca [ Melaka]), but Nomia borneana Cameron, 1902 may prove to be conspecific”.

Pauly (2009: 162) wrote that that the type material of N. elegans was “ Lectotype ♀: [Sulawezi] Malacca (‘MAL 74’) ( OUMNH), désigné par BAKER 1993: 194 (non examiné)”, but this is a mixture of information for Nomia concinna Smith, 1860 and N. elegans . The specimen mentioned by Baker from Makassar may be conspecific with Nomia concinna Smith, 1860 (= Maculonomia concinna , see below), though it is probably not part of the type series of that latter species.

Current status

Maculonomia elegans ( Smith, 1857) ( Pauly 2009) .

Distribution

Somewhat unclear due to the need for taxonomic revision of Maculonomia , but Malaysia (Peninsula, Borneo) and Indonesia ( Pauly 2009).