Amegilla bombiomorpha Wu, 1983

1. Amegilla bombiomorpha Wu, 1983 View in CoL

( Figs 1a–h View FIGURE 1 , paratype)

Amegilla bombiomorpha Wu, 1983b: 222 View in CoL , ♀, ♂.

Paratype: [♀], 四nj, ǔõƜ, 1957.IX.18 [Sichuan, Emei Shan, 18.IX.1957] // dzúẫ, 800–1000 ȓƃ, ī åx: 卢đt [Qingyinge, 800–1000 m, 29°34'N 103°23'E leg. You-Cal LU] // Amegilla bombiomorpha Wu View in CoL // PARATYPE <yellow label> // IOZ(E)221495 // Amegilla (Glossamegilla) pseudobomboides (MEADE-WALDO, 1914) View in CoL = bombiomorpha Wu, 1983 View in CoL , det. P. Rasmont 2019.

Current status: Amegilla (Glossamegilla) pseudobomboides (Meade-Waldo, 1914) View in CoL .

Remark: Wu (1983: 222) originally designated types including holotype (♀), allotype (♂), and two paratypes (♀♀), but only one paratype was found in IOZ/IZCAS. Brooks (1988: 571), Wu (2000: 293), and Ascher & Pickering (2024) treated the taxon as synonym of Amegilla (Glossamegilla) pseudobomboides (Meade-Waldo, 1914) .

Amegilla bombiomorpha is clearly very near A. pseudobomboides (Meade-Waldo, 1914. The type of A. pseudobomboides in NHMUK (labelled as a ♀ “ Assam W.F.Badgley 1906-185”, “ NHMUK 014025171 About NHMUK ”; https://data. nhm.ac.uk/dataset/56e711e6-c847-4f99-915a-6894bb5c5dea/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb/ record/9078698) is actually as a male. Unfortunately , this type is not a female as it is written on the original label but a male, making careful comparison impossible with the available paratype ♀ available. One of us (PR) examined further specimens from RMNH museum: 1 ♀ A. pseudobomboides (Meade-Waldo) labelled “ Lissango , Everest route, NEPAL, 1600m, 13-9-1974 B. Kiauta, M. Brink & J.M. van Brink leg”, 2 ♂♂ and 3♀♀ A. bombiomorpha Wu labelled “FUKIEN, S.China, Kionyang Hwangkeng 3.IX.1943 T. Maa ” (1♀, 1♂); FUKIEN, S. China, Kionyang Liutun 2.X.1943 T.Maa ” (1♀); FUKIEN, S. China, Shaowu , Tachnian, 5–12.VIII.1945 T. Maa ” (1♀); “ NW Vietnam, Tonkin, Hoang Lien N.R., 15km W Sa Pa, c. 1900m, 15–21.x.1999 (Malaise trap) C.v. Achterberg RMNH’99” (1 ♂); Without to be able to make a complete comparison, we can make the next differences in males: in bombiomorpha mesonotum, the hairs are all grayish with only few black hairs intermixed between tegulae, designing a weak interalar band (in pseudobomboides all dorsal part of pronutum and mesonotum covered with black hairs); T1 is greyish, T2 is black with few reddish hairs on lateral margins (in pseudobomboides T2 covered with yellowish hairs with only balck hairs on sides), T3–7 are covered with reddish hairs (in pseudobomboides only margin of T3 and whole T4–7 with reddish hairs); legs with reddish cuticula and reddish-orange hairs (in pseudobomboides legs with all black except a small spot of orange hairs at top of hind tibiae). It is to be noticed that the bombiomorpha ♂ from Vietnam has mostly black hairs on legs. We have not found any structural detail between the taxa. It is especially noticeable that the ♂ genitalia of the Himalayan pseudobomboides and the Fukien’s bombiomorpha are totally identical, even in the smallest details of pilosity.

Distribution: China (Sichuan, Fujian); Nepal, Vietnam.