Nomia (Maculonomia) elegans Smith, 1857

Ascher, John S., Soh, Zestin W. W., Chui, Shao Xiong, Soh, Eunice J. Y., Ho, Benjamin M., Lee, John X. Q., Gajanur, Anya R. & Ong, Xin Rui, 2022, The bees of Singapore (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila): First comprehensive country checklist and conservation assessment for a Southeast Asian bee fauna, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70, pp. 39-64 : 46

1. Nomia (Maculonomia) elegans Smith, 1857 , Elegant Forest-Nomia

This species was described from Wallace-collected specimens from Malacca, and subsequently redescribed from Singapore as Nomia tuberculifrons Cockerell, 1920b (for synonymy see Pauly, 2009), based on specimens of both sexes collected at Seletar in 1911. There are no subsequent local records, and we have not seen any at Panti Bird Sanctuary (PBS) in Johor, Malaysia, the nearest relatively intact forest site to be visited regularly.