Megachile (Eutricharaea) rotundipennis Kirby

Gonzalez, Victor H., Engel, Michael S. & Griswold, Terry L., 2013, The lithurgine bees of Australia (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), with a note on Megachile rotundipennis, Journal of Melittology 2013 (11), pp. 1-19 : 18-20

Megachile (Eutricharaea) rotundipennis Kirby

( Figs. 26–28 )

Megachile rotundipennis Kirby in Andrews, 1900: 87. Lectotype (new designation): NHML Hym. 17.a.2068b; ♂, near Flying-Fish Cove , Christmas Island, Australia.

COMMENTS: Kirby (1900) described this species from five males and one female and did not designate a holotype. Thus, in order to stabilize the name, we designate one of the male syntypes as lectotype ( Figs. 26–28 ). The label data for this specimen are as follow: West coast, Oct. 1897 // Christmas I., C.W. Andrews, 98–20. // Megachile rotundipennis Kb. Type ♂ [handwritten] // Type, B.M. Type Hym 17a.2068b. // Lectotype, Megachile rotundipennis Kirby des. V. H. Gonzalez, M.S. Engel & T. Griswold ♂. The single female of the syntype series was subsequently described as L. andrewsi by Cockerell (1909) (vide supra).

Megachile rotundipennis runs to the subgenus Eutricharaea Thomson in the key to the subgenera of Megachile of Michener (2007). This subgenus is the largest group of Megachile with many species greatly confused, particularly from Southeast Asia; most of them are known from the type series or from a reduced number of specimens, such as M. rotundipennis . Within Eutricharaea , M. rotundipennis is morphologically similar to M. nivescens Kirby , a species also currently known from Christmas Island.

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The Journal of Melittology was established at the University of Kansas through the efforts of Michael S. Engel, Victor H. Gonzalez, Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, and Charles D. Michener in 2013 and each article is published as its own number, with issues appearing online as soon as they are ready. Papers are composed using Microsoft Word® and Adobe InDesign® in Lawrence, Kansas, USA .

Editor-in-Chief Michael S. Engel University of Kansas

Assistant Editors Victor H. Gonzalez Charles D. Michener Southwestern Oklahoma State University University of Kansas

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Figures

Figures 26–28. Photomicrographs of lectotype male of Megachile (Eutricharaea) rotundipennis Kirby. 26. Lateral habitus. 27. Dorsal habitus. 28. Facial view.