Nomia modesta Smith, 1862

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 : 101-102

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scientific name	Nomia modesta Smith, 1862
status

Treatment

65. Nomia modesta Smith, 1862

Fig. 63

Nomia modesta Smith, 1862: 59–60 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; Gil. [Gilolo]; [probably 2 Oct.–5 Nov. 1860]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2475 .

Type locality

Gilolo [= Halmahera].

Notes

Pauly (2009) treated this species as distinct from L. pulchriventris , in contrast to the tentative suggestion of Baker (1993: 222) who thought that they might be conspecific. For comments on the collecting date, see Section 64.

Current status

Lipotriches ( Rhopalomelissa) modesta ( Smith, 1862) ( Pauly 2009) .

Distribution

Indonesia ( Java, North Maluku), Papua New Guinea, Bismark Archipelago, Solomon Islands, and Australia ( Queensland) ( Michener 1965; Pauly 2009).