Megachile flabellipes Pérez 1895

Praz, Christophe, Al-Shahat, Ahmed M. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2021, Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Eutricharaea Thomson in Egypt, with a key to the species and the description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Anthophila Megachilidae, genus Megachile Latreille), Zootaxa 5032 (3), pp. 301-330 : 312

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Megachile flabellipes Pérez 1895 View in CoL

Megachile flabellipes Pérez 1895: 23 View in CoL , ♀ ♂, “[no locality given: France]”.

Type material: Several syntypes have been examined, all probably originating from France even if this species was described in Pérez’s work “ Mellifères de Barbarie ” ( MNHN) .

Additional material: EGYPT: 1 ♂, Sinai, Wadi Tubug 1600 m, 23.6.1998, leg. Freidberg & Kaplan ( SMNH); see also Norfolk and Dathe (2019) .

Distribution: Widely distributed in southern Europe and from the Sinai Peninsula through the Middle East, eastwards to Iran.

Diagnosis: see Amiet et al. (2004), Scheuchl (2006).

References

Amiet, F., Hermann, M., Muller, A. & Neumeyer, R. (2004) Apidae 4: Anthidium, Chelostoma, Coelioxys, Dioxys, Heriades, Lithurgus, Megachile, Osmia, Stelis. Fauna Helvetica, 9, 1 - 274.

Norfolk, O. & Dathe, H. H. (2019) Filling the Egyptian pollinator knowledge-gap. Checklist of flower-visiting insects in South Sinai, with new records for Egypt. Beitrage zur Entomologie, 69, 175 - 184. https: // doi. org / 10.21248 / contrib. entomol. 69.1.175 - 184

Perez, J. (1895) Especes nouvelles de Melliferes de Barbarie. (Diagnoses Preliminaires). Gounouilhou, Bordeaux, 64 pp.

Scheuchl, E. (2006) Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Wildbienen Deutschlands und Osterreichs. Band II: Megachilidae - Melittidae. Second, revised edition. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 192 pp.