Anthidium petechiale Morawitz, 1875

Ivlev, Konstantin S., Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2025, The bees of the tribe Anthidiini (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 174-187 : 183-184

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.14
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scientific name	Anthidium petechiale Morawitz, 1875
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8. Anthidium petechiale Morawitz, 1875 View in CoL

Anthidium petechiale Morawitz, 1875: 120 View in CoL (key), 130, ♀.

Type locality: Tajikistan.

Published locality: “between Iori and Dashty-Kazy”.

Holotype: ♀ (see remark below).

Current status. Junior synonym of Pseudoanthidium ( Pseudoanthidium) cribratum ( Morawitz, 1875) View in CoL (synonymized by Warncke 1980: 162; combination according to Litman et al. 2021: 1317).

Remarks. The species’ status is currently unclear. The validity of Anthidium petechiale is yet to be verified.

The holotype of Anthidium petechiale was borrowed by van der Zanden in April 1992 (as indicated in the box containing Fedtschenko’s types). Following van der Zanden’s death, his collection was donated to the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden ( the Netherlands). Specimens bear a small label stating “from the collection of van der Zanden”. Tomas Wood (personal communication) searched this collection for the A. nigrinum type from ZMMU, but could not find it.

Distribution. Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan ( Warncke 1980; Murao et al. 2015; Litman et al. 2021).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Megachilidae
Genus	Anthidium