Megachile aterrima Smith, 1862

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 : 102-104

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1028.3129
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:06182A07-5DB6-4916-86AF-673865690CE2
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/251C1E7D-FFE5-1631-FDFF-1533FBA1562D
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scientific name	Megachile aterrima Smith, 1862
status

Treatment

66. Megachile aterrima Smith, 1862 View in CoL

Fig. 64

Megachile aterrima Smith, 1862: 60 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; Tond. [ Tondano , Sulawesi]; [ 10 Jun.–23 Sep. 1859]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2820 .

Type locality

Celebes (Tondano).

Notes

Baker (1993: 223) wrote the following:

“A ♀ in the UMO type collection, labelled ‘Tond.’ [white disc] and ‘ Megachile aterrima Smith. ’, is the HOLOTYPE of this species and it has now been labelled accordingly. It is substantially intact and in good condition. Two ♀♀ in NHM, labelled ‘ Celebes / 5 5 2 2 ’, are not conspecific with the Oxford ♀ but are Creightonella frontalis (F., 1804)”.

Wallace was in Manado on Sulawesi between 10 Jun.–23 Sep. 1859, and Tondano is some 20 kilometers to the south-east of this city.

Current status

Megachile ( Alocanthedon) aterrima Smith, 1862 . Ascher & Pickering (2024) list this species as part of the subgenus Callomegachile Michener, 1962 . However, they were separated into the subgenus Alocanthedon Engel & Gonzalez, 2011 that was first outlined by Baker (1993: 108). Given the distinctive morphology of this group, we list M. aterrima within this subgenus.

Distribution

Indonesia ( Sulawesi) ( Smith 1862; Baker 1993; Engel & Gonzalez 2011).