Megachile terminalis, Smith, 1858

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 : 57-59

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-FFB8-166C-FD86-1019FC1A577F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Megachile terminalis
status

Treatment

34. Megachile terminalis Smith, 1858 View in CoL

Fig. 35

Megachile terminalis Smith, 1858a: 7 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; Mak [Makassar, Sulawesi]; [ 2 Sep.–18 Dec. 1856]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2793 .

Type locality

Celebes [= Sulawesi].

Notes

Baker (1993: 201) wrote the following:

“A ♀ in the UMO type collection, labelled ‘Mak’ [white disc] and ‘ Megachile terminalis Smith’ [white rectangular label] is the HOLOTYPE of this species and it has now been labelled accordingly. The type is intact but for the loss of the apical segments of R tarsus I”.

The specimen was not labelled as holotype; this has now been rectified. Baker also synonymised Megachile albocaudata Friese, 1903 with M. terminalis , this being accepted onto the global bee checklist ( Ascher & Pickering 2024). The former species was described from Kalidupa-Buton [= Kaledupa Island] which is just to the south-east of Sulawesi. We have examined the type of M. albocaudata , and agree with this synonymy, and we formally synonymise M. albocaudata under M. terminalis syn. nov.

Current status

Megachile ( Callomegachile) terminalis Smith, 1858 ( Ascher & Pickering 2024).

Distribution

Indonesia ( Sulawesi) ( Smith 1858a; Ascher & Pickering 2024).