Megachile rotundiceps Smith, 1857

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 : 22-23

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scientific name	Megachile rotundiceps Smith, 1857
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12. Megachile rotundiceps Smith, 1857 View in CoL

Fig. 11

Megachile rotundiceps Smith, 1857: 47 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

MALAYSIA • ♀; Mt Ophir 68 [Mount Ledang]; [ 13 Jul.–25 Sep. 1854]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2773 .

Type locality

Malacca (Mount Ophir) [= Mount Ledang].

Notes

Baker (1993: 196) wrote the following:

“ Two ♀♀ standing as rotundiceps in the UMO type collection are labelled:- a) ‘MT. OPHIR 68’, ‘ Megachile rotundiceps Smith ♀ ’ [blue paper] and ‘type’ [Mitchell],

b) ‘SING. 67’ and ‘different species’ [Mitchell].

The ♀ (a) is the HOLOTYPE of rotundiceps and it has now been labelled accordingly. The Singapore ♀, (b), which is clearly not conspecific, has been labelled as of no type status. Modern material from Selangor (Kuala Sleh, 23 iii 1947 (H.T, Pagden, 0810), ‘at sweat on shirt’) agrees well with the type”.

The specimen indicated by Baker was not labelled as holotype; this has now been rectified.

Current status

Megachile ( Callomegachile) rotundiceps Smith, 1857 ( Ascher & Pickering 2024).

Distribution

Malaysia (Peninsula) ( Smith 1857; Ascher & Pickering 2024). A revision of material is required, as it seems unlikely that this species has such a narrow distribution and lack of additional records.