Nomia punctata Smith, 1858

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 : 48-49

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scientific name	Nomia punctata Smith, 1858
status

Treatment

28. Nomia punctata Smith, 1858 View in CoL

Fig. 29

Nomia punctata Smith, 1858a: 5 View in CoL , ♂.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♂; Mak. [ Makassar , Sulawesi]; [ 2 Sep.–18 Dec. 1856]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2787 .

Type locality

Celebes [= Sulawesi].

Notes

Baker (1993: 199) wrote the following:

“A ♂ labelled ‘Mak.’ [blue disc], ‘ Nomia punctata . Smith.’ [blue rect. label] and ‘ Holotype C.D. Michener in Litt. 13 VIII 1965 ’, standing as punctatum in the UMO type collection is, as recognized by Michener, the HOLOTYPE of this species. The mesosoma has been broken apart in pinning, tarsus R II is lost, and the genitalia have been crudely extracted and embedded in glue, but the type is otherwise intact and in good condition”.

Baker treated the species in the combination Lasioglossum punctatum (Smith, 1858) , and we agree that it is the holotype. Separately, Michener (1965: 241) and Walker (1986: 152–153) treated Halictus punctatus Smith, 1879 (described from Australia) as Homalictus punctatus (Smith) , with Walker synonymising Halictus punctatus var. exlautus Cockerell, 1905 under Homalictus punctatus . After describing this variety, Cockerell (1922: 662) later believed that Halictus punctatus was preoccupied by Nomia punctata Smith, 1858 , and that the name exlautus should be applied as the senior name for the Australian taxon, the type specimen of the “variety” representing only individual variation. The placement of Smith’s taxon from Sulawesi and Smith’s taxon from Australia into the genus Lasioglossum Curtis, 1833 definitively renders the Australian taxon as a junior secondary homonym; the Australian taxon is rightly referred to as Lasioglossum ( Homalictus) exlautum (Cockerell, 1905) (J. Gardner pers. com.).

Current status

Lasioglossum ( Homalictus) punctatum (Smith, 1858) (J. Gardner pers. com.). Not included within the genus Homalictus by Pauly (1980) in his revision of the Indonesian members of this group.

Distribution

Indonesia ( Sulawesi) ( Smith 1858a; Ascher & Pickering 2024).