Borgatomelissa brevipennis (W ALKER, 1871)

Andrena brevipennis n.sp.: WALKER 1871a: 46 (descr. ♀, Tadjoura).

Anthrena (!) brevipennis WALKER, 1871: DE DALLA TORRE 1896: 107 (world cat. (Djibouti, not Egypt)).

Andrena brevipennis WALKER, 1871: INNES BEY 1911: 105 (without locality, cat. Lord Collection).

Meliturgula brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): PATINY 1999a: 28 (tax.).

Meliturgula brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): PATINY 1999b: 263 (tax., footnote 3: tax.), 265 (tax.).

Meliturgula brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): PATINY 2000a: 69 (tax., biogeogr.), footnote 3: tax.).

Meliturgula brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): PATINY & GASPAR 2000: 3 (tax.), 4 (footnotes 2, 3: tax.), 5 (tab. 1: tax.), 6 (tax., Tadjoura (WALKER (1871a), Djibouti, not Ethiopia)), 18 (map 1), 19 (map 2), 21 (map 6), 27 (tax., biogeogr.), 30 (biogeogr.), 32 (tax.), 35 (biogeogr.), 36 (tax., biogeogr.), 40 (biogeogr.), 41 (biogeogr.).

Meliturgula brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): MICHENER 2000: 279 (tax.).

Borgatomelissa brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): PATINY 2000b: 101 (typ. gen., tax.), 104 (map 1).

Meliturgula brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): GUSENLEITNER & SCHWARZ 2002: 846 (tax., world cat. (Djibouti, not Egypt)).

Borgatomelissa brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): PATINY 2004: 905 (biogeogr.).

Borgatomelissa brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): GUSENLEITNER et al. 2005: 460 (tax.).

Borgatomelissa brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): PATINY & MICHEZ 2007: 26 (tab. 1: cat. biogeogr.), 29 (biogeogr., fig. 9: map), 31 (biogeogr.).

Borgatomelissa brevipennis (WALKER, 1871): EARDLEY, KUHLMANN & PAULY 2010: 28 (fig. 11C).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Tadjoura.

Borgatomelissa brevipennis is recorded from the Afrotropical (Djibouti, Eritrea, Mauritania, Niger) and Palaearctic (Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen) regions. Borgatomelissa brevipennis is not mentioned in FRIESE (1909a) and EARDLEY & URBAN (2010).