Megachile foliata Smith, 1860

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 : 94-95

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scientific name	Megachile foliata Smith, 1860
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Treatment

60. Megachile foliata Smith, 1860 View in CoL

Fig. 58

Megachile foliata Smith, 1860b: 134 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; Bac. [Bachian]; [ 21 Oct. 1858 – 13 Apr. 1859]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2816 .

Type locality

Bachian [= Bacan].

Notes

Baker (1993: 215) wrote the following:

“A ♀ in the UMO type collection, labelled ‘Bac.’ [white disc: Batian, Oct 1858 - Apr 1859 (Wallace)] and ‘ Megachile foliata Smith. ’ [Smith] is the HOLOTYPE of this species and it has now been labelled acordingly. Two other ♀♀, from Gilolo and Mysol, taken by Smith to be ♀♀ of alecto and so labelled by him ( vide supra, 5.13-6), cannot be regarded as syntypes of foliata ”.

Current status

Megachile ( Amegachile) foliata Smith, 1860 ( Ascher & Pickering 2024).

Distribution

Indonesia ( Maluku: Ambon, Buru, Kai; North Maluku: Bacan, Southwest Papua: Misool), Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, and the Solomon Islands ( Lieftinck 1958, as M. placida ssp. puncticollis Friese, 1903 ; Ascher & Pickering 2024; current study). This includes Megachile placida Smith, 1862 as a junior synonym, see Section 67.