Nomia metallica Smith, 1863

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 : 120

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scientific name	Nomia metallica Smith, 1863
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Treatment

77. Nomia metallica Smith, 1863

Fig. 76

Nomia metallica Smith, 1863: 45–46 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; Wag. [Waigiou]; [ 4 Jul.–29 Sep. 1860]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2831 .

Type locality

Waigiou [= Waigeo].

Notes

Baker (1993: 230) wrote the following:

“A ♀ in the UMO type collection, labelled ‘Wag’ [Waigiou] and ‘ Nomia metallica Smith’ [Smith], is the HOLOTYPE of this species and it has now been labelled accordingly”.

The type was not revised by Hirashima (1967) or Pauly (2009), but Pauly (2024b) presents photographs of the OUMNH type material and treats Mellitidia aeraria ( Hirashima, 1967) that was described from Papua New Guinea as a junior synonym. This synonymy must be considered as provisional until formal publication.

Current status

Mellitidia metallica (Smith, 1863) .

Distribution

Indonesia (Southwest Papua: Waigeo) (Smith 1863; Michener 1965; Ascher & Pickering 2024) and Papua New Guinea if including M. aeraria as a junior synonym ( Pauly 2024b).