Megachile apicata Smith, 1865

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 : 132-133

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-FF03-16D2-FDF7-147FFBFC522A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Megachile apicata Smith, 1865
status

 

87. Megachile apicata Smith, 1865 View in CoL

Fig. 86

Megachile apicata Smith, 1865: 93 View in CoL , ♂.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♂; M. [Morty]; [probably between 1 Oct. 1860 – 31 Jan. 1861]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2841 .

Type locality

Morty Island [= Morotai].

Current status

Megachile ( Callomegachile) mortyana Dalla Torre, 1896 . Megachile apicata Smith, 1865 is a junior primary homonym of Megachile apicata Smith, 1853 (described from Australia). Dalla Torre (1896: 440) noticed this, and provided a replacement name. For collecting date, see Section 84.

Distribution

Indonesia ( North Maluku: Morotai) ( Smith 1865; Ascher & Pickering 2024).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile

Loc

Megachile apicata Smith, 1865

Wood, T. J., Risch, S., Orr, M. C. & Hogan, J. E. 2025
2025
Loc

Megachile apicata

Smith F. 1865: 93
1865
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