Melittidae

Eardley, Connal & Urban, Rosalind, 2010, Catalogue of Afrotropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes) 2455, Zootaxa 2455, pp. 1-548 : 189-190

Melittidae :

Meganomiinae:

Meganomia Cockerell

Nomia (Meganomia) Cockerell, 1909d: 402 . Type species: Nomia binghami Cockerell, 1909 , by monotypy.

Meganomia Cockerell : Michener 1981: 109–119; Michener 1992b: 146; Michener 1997b: 35; Michener 2000: 65, 397, 409–410.

Maxschwarzia Pagliano and Scaramozzino, 1990: 5 [unnecessary replacement for Meganomia Cockerell, 1909 ]. Type species: Nomia binghami Cockerell, 1909 ; Michener 1992b: 146; Michener 1997b: 35: Michener 2000: 410.

Meganomia andersoni (Meade-Waldo) Kenya, Tanzania. Nomia (Meganomia) andersoni Meade-Waldo, 1916: 457 , male holotype (BMNH) Kenya; Pesenko 1997: 502. Meganomia andersoni (Meade-Waldo) : Cockerell 1931d: 201; Stage 1971: 309, 312–313; Michener 1981: iii, 21, 27–

28, 30, 32–34, 105, 110–111, 115–119; Roubik 1989: 414; Michener, Brooks and Pauly 1990: 139–140; Pauly

1990: 172.

Meganomia binghami (Cockerell)

Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe. On flowers of: Crotalaria podocarpa , Gisekia africana , Heliotropium ciliatum , Indigofera alternans , Indigofera charlieriana , Indigofera filipes , Indigofera sp. , Lessertia macrostachya , Limeum arqute-carinatum , Limeum fenestratum , Limeum myosotis , Neuradopsis austroafricana , Tribulus sp. , cucurbit.

Nomia (Meganomia) binghami Cockerell, 1909e: 402–403 , female lectotype [designated by Pauly 1990, Pesenko 1997] (BMNH) Namibia; Cockerell 1910a: 221; Meade-Waldo 1916: 458; Hedicke 1931: 35; Pesenko 1997: 481, 502.

Meganomia binghami (Cockerell) : Cockerell 1931d: 201; Friese 1933c: 376; Friese 1934b: 445; Cockerell 1935e: 557; Cockerell 1936j: 27–28; Cockerell 1936n: 522; Stage 1971: 307, 309–311, 313; Rozen 1977a: 1–14; Rozen 1978: 644–645; Rozen and Jacobson 1980: 9–10; Michener 1981: iii, 27, 31–34, 105, 110–114, 116–117; Roubik 1989: 271; Pauly 1990: 172; Michener 1997b: 35; Michener 2000: 410; Gess and Gess 2003: 170–171, 302, 305, 307, 308, 316, 332, 359, 360, 361, 368, 396, 399; Gess and Gess 2004: 613; Danforth et al. 2006a: 15119, 15121; Danforth et al. 2006b: 363, 366, 368; Gess and Gess 2006: 15, 18, 22.

Nomia flavofasciata Friese, 1909a: 153 , 170, female holotype (lost, not specimen labelled as ‘type’ in ZMHB, Michener, 1981) Namibia; Friese 1909b: 129; Cockerell 1910a: 221, syn.; Strand, 1912b: 132; Friese 1916a: 418; Strand 1921a: 93–104; Friese 1930: 13–14; Hedicke 1931: 35; Pesenko 1997: 502; Rasmussen and Ascher 2008: 50.

Meganomia flavofasciata (Friese) : Michener 1981: 113.

Meganomia gigas Michener

Namibia. On flowers of: Crotalaria podocarpa .

Meganomia gigas Michener, 1981 : iii, 28, 30, 33–34, 110–111, 113–116, male holotype (AMNH) Namibia; McGinley 1989: 10; Roig-Alsina and Michener 1993: 127; Roig-Alsina 1993: 172; Alexander and Michener 1995: 380; Michener 1997b: 35; Michener 2000: 410; Pauly In: Pauly et al. 2001: 199; Gess and Gess 2003: 170, 356, 358; Gess and Gess 2004: 613; Gess and Gess 2006: 15.

Meganomia rossi Michener

Kenya.

Meganomai rossi Michener, 1981 : iii, 18, 27–28, 30, 32–34, 110–111, 115, 118–119, male holotype (CAS) Kenya.