Nomada conspicua 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 : 124-126

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scientific name	Nomada conspicua Smith, 1863
status

Treatment

81. Nomada conspicua Smith, 1863 View in CoL

Fig. 80

Nomada conspicua Smith, 1863: 47 View in CoL , ♂.

Type material examined

Lectotype

TIMOR-LESTE • ♂; Tim. [Timor]; [probably 7 Jan.–25 Apr. 1861]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2835 ( lectotype designated by Schwarz & Gusenleitner 2004).

Type locality

Timor [= Dili, Timor-Leste].

Notes

Baker (1993: 231) identified this specimen as the holotype and stated that he labelled it, but we found no type label. Schwarz & Gusenleitner (2004: 1422) published the specimen as a lectotype (giving the year of publication as 1864) and we see no reason to relabel the specimen as the holotype (cf. ICZN 1999 recommendation 73F).

As discussed above for X. perforator (see Section 71), Wallace visited Timor multiple times. However, after 1860 he visited it just once, between 7 Jan.–25 Apr. 1861, collecting around Dili before departing to Buru on 25 Apr. 1861. The terra typica can therefore be considered to be within the modern country of Timor-Leste.

Current status

Nomada ( Mininomada) conspicua Smith, 1863 . Part of the furva group considered by Alexander & Schwarz (1994) which is now described as subgenus Mininomada Straka, 2024 ( Straka et al. 2024).

Distribution

Timor-Leste (Smith 1863; Schwarz & Gusenleitner 2004), almost certainly also Indonesia ( East Nusa Tenggara).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Apidae
Genus	Nomada