Megachile altera Vachal

Eardley, Connal, 2012, A taxonomic revision of the southern African species of the subgenus Creightonella Cockerell (Apoidea: Megachilidae: Megachile Latreille), Zootaxa 3159, pp. 1-35 : 31

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.246125

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6175168

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scientific name

Megachile altera Vachal
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Megachile altera Vachal View in CoL

Megachile altera Vachal, 1903: 370 View in CoL –371, male holotype (type depository unknown) Tanzania; Friese 1909: 327, 378; Cockerell 1937: 140. Creightoniella [!] altera (Vachal) View in CoL : Pasteels 1965: 56 –58.

Creightonella altera (Vachal) : Li Enkulu 1988: 139, 160.

Discussion. This species was described from Tanzania ( Vachal 1903) and later recorded from Zimbabwe by Pasteels (1965). The holotype has not been located. Pasteels (1965), who knew the subgenera very well, placed it in Creightonella . However, SAMC has two speciments that belong to Megachile (Eutricharaea) lydenburgiana , from Zimbabwe that were labeled as M. altera . The true identity of this species must await the discovery of the holotype.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile

Loc

Megachile altera Vachal

Eardley, Connal 2012
2012
Loc

Creightonella altera

Li 1988: 139
1988
Loc

Megachile altera

Pasteels 1965: 56
Cockerell 1937: 140
Friese 1909: 327
Vachal 1903: 370
1903
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