Megachile (Chalicodoma) wfkirbyi Kohl, 1906

Straka, Jakub, Batelka, Jan & Pauly, Alain, 2017, Bees of the Socotra Archipelago (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), their biogeography and association with parasites, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57, pp. 183-219 : 210

Megachile (Chalicodoma) wfkirbyi Kohl, 1906

( Figs 101–103 )

Megachile punctatissima Kirby, 1900: 20 (type locality: Socotra, Homhil ); KIRBY (1903): 250, plate xvi, fig. 1

(redescription). Megachile W. F. Kirbyi Kohl, 1906: 19 (replacement name, nec M. punctatissima Spinola, 1806 ). Megachile W. F. Kirbyi Kohl, 1907: 187 (junior homonym and objective synonym). Megachile grantiana Cockerell, 1907: 132 (replacement name, nec M. punctatissima Spinola, 1806 ). Megachile kirbyi Friese, 1909: 384 (463) (unjustified emendation) Chalicodoma grantiana: COCKERELL (1937) : 191 (new combination). Megachile wfkirbyi: ASCHER & PICKERING (2017) .

Material examined. Sokotra, 1 J, i.1899, O. Simony lgt., F. Kohl det.; J. Samha, 1 ♀, i.1899, O. Simony lgt., F. Kohl det.; Sokotra, Ras Shoab, 2 ♀♀, i.1899, O. Simony lgt., F. Kohl det. (all in NHMW) .

Remarks. The subgenus Chalicodoma Lepeletier, 1841 is distributed mainly in the Palaearctic Region with a few African species distributed mainly in southern Africa and a single Arabian species ( ASCHER & PICKERING 2017). For this reason we suspect Palaearctic origin of this Socotran endemic species.

Species name Megachile W. F. Kirbyi ( KOHL 1906, 1907) is available as “ wfkirbyi ” according to ICZN article 32.5.2.4.4 ( ICZN 1999). The nomenclatural history of M. wfkirbyi was completely and correctly presented by ASCHER & PICKERING (2017), however without explanation. Distribution. Endemic to Socotra Archipelago. Recorded from Socotra: Homhil ( KIRBY 1900, 1903), Ras Shoab ( KOHL 1906, 1907), and from Samha ( KOHL 1906, 1907).

Figures

Figs 99–107. 99–100 – Megachile paucipunctulata Kirby, 1900, female. 99 – dorsal view; 100 – lateral view. 101–103 – Megachile wfkirbyi Kohl, 1906. 101 – female, lateral view; 102 – male, dorsal view; 103 – male, lateral view. 104–105 – Protosmia megaceps (Kohl, 1906), female. 104 – lateral view; 105 – dorsal view. 106–107 – Xenostelis polychroma Baker, 1999, female. 106 – lateral view; 107 – dorsal view. Figs 106 and 107 photographed by M. Kuhlmann.