Melitturgini, Michener, 1944

Eardley, Connal & Urban, Rosalind, 2010, Catalogue of Afrotropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes) 2455, Zootaxa 2455, pp. 1-548 : 39

Melitturgini :

Melitturga Latreille

Melitturga Latreille, 1809: 176 . Type species: Eucera clavicornis Latreille, 1806 , by monotypy; Rozen 1985: 481; Alexander 1990: 123; Eardley 1991c: 115–136; Michener 1997b: 37; Michener 2000: 278.

Melliturga [!] Latreille, 1809: 177, lapsus for Melitturga Latreille, 1809: 176 .

Meliturga [!] Lepeletier and Serville, 1828: 799, unjustified emendation of Melitturga Latreille, 1809 .

Melitturga (Australomelitturga) Patiny, 1999a: 246–247 , 252–253; Patiny 2004c: 904; Michener 2007: 292, syn.

Melitturga barbarae Eardley

South Africa. On flowers of: Indigofera rautanenii .

Melitturga barbarae Eardley, 1991c: 118 , 120, 122–123, 133, female holotype (AMNH) South Africa; Michener 2007: 292 [by implication].

Melitturga (Australomelitturga) barbarae Eardley : Patiny 1999a: 247; Patiny 2000: 303; Patiny and Gaspar 2000: 22, 30; Gess and Gess 2003: 143, 362; Patiny 2004a: 2, 4, 6, 9, 11.

Melitturga capensis Brauns

South Africa. On flowers of: Indigofera sp. Parasite: Ammobatoides braunsi Bischoff.

Melitturga capensis Brauns, 1912a: 69–71 , male lectotype [designated by Eardley, 1991] (TMSA) South Africa; Friese 1909a: 101–102; Friese 1921: 1096; Friese 1922b: 64; Cockerell 1935e: 561; Anonymous 1958: 31; Eardley 1991c: 118–122, 133; Gess and Gess 2003: 143, 305, 358; Michener 2007: 292 [by implication].

Meliturga [!] capensis Brauns : Bischoff 1923.

Melitturga (Australomelitturga) capensis Brauns : Patiny 1999a: 247; Patiny 2000: 303; Patiny and Gaspar 2000: 7, 22, 31, 34; Patiny 2004a: 6, 12.

Melitturga capensis heterura Cockerell, 1935e: 561–562 , male lectotype [designated by Eardley, 1991] (BMNH) South Africa; Eardley 1991c: 118–119, syn.

Melitturga flavomarginata Patiny

Angola.

Melitturga (Australomelitturga) flavomarginata Patiny, 2000: 301–302 , male holotype (ZMHB) Angola; Patiny and Gaspar 2000: 22, 30–31; Patiny 2004a: 6.

Melitturga flavomarginata Patiny : Michener 2007: 292 [by implication].

Melitturga penrithorum Eardley

South Africa. On flowers of: Indigofera auricoma , Indigofera rautanenii , Indigofera sp. , Ocimum americanum , Petalidium sp.

Melitturga penrithorum Eardley, 1991c: 118 , 120–122, 133, female holotype (AMNH) South Africa; Gess and Gess 2003: 143, 358, 360, 362 421; Gess and Gess 2004: 611; Michener 2007: 292 [by implication].

Melitturga (Australomelitturga) penrithorum Eardley : Patiny 1999a: 247; Patiny 2000: 303; Patiny and Gaspar 2000: 7, 21, 31; Patiny 2004a: 2, 6, 9.