Meliturgula scriptifrons (Walker, 1871)

Madl, Michael, 2018, A catalogue of the family Andrenidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Eritrea, Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 655-659 : 657

Meliturgula scriptifrons (W ALKER, 1871)

Nomia scriptifrons sp.n.: WALKER 1871: 44 (descr. ♀, Massawa).

Nomia scriptifrons WALKER, 1871: DE DALLA TORRE 1896: 169 (world cat. ( Eritrea, not Egypt)).

Osmia scriptifrons ( WALKER, 1871): INNES BEY 1911: 105 (Massawa, cat. Lord Collection).

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

Meliturgula (Meliturgula) scriptifrons ( WALKER, 1871): PATINY 1999c: 248 (tax.).

Meliturgula (Meliturgula) scriptifrons ( WALKER, 1871): PATINY 2000a: 63 (biogeogr.), 64 (tax., descr. ♂ ♀, Massawa).

Meliturgula (Meliturgula) scriptifrons ( WALKER, 1871): PATINY & GASPAR 2000: 16 (tax. Massawa), 25 (map 14), 32 (footnote 11: tax.), 33-34 (tax., biogeogr., footnote 12: tax.), 39 (biogeogr.), 41 (biogeogr.), 68 (tax.).

Meliturgula (Meliturgula) scriptifrons ( WALKER, 1871): PATINY 2000c: 303 (tab. 1: world cat.).

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

Meliturgula (Meliturgula) scriptifrons ( WALKER, 1871): PATINY 2004a: 2 (tab. 1: cat. Afr. reg.), 7- 8 (key ♀), 9 (key ♂), 10 (map 1).

Meliturgula (Meliturgula) scriptifrons ( WALKER, 1871): PATINY 2004b: 902 (tab. 1: cat. Afr. reg.), 904 (map 3), 905-6 (biogeogr.).

Meliturgula (Meliturgula) scriptifrons ( WALKER, 1871): PATINY & MICHEZ 2007: 24 (fig. 4a: map), 25 (biogeogr., map 5).

Meliturgula scriptifrons ( WALKER, 1871): EARDLEY, KUHLMANN & PAULY 2010: 27 (biogeogr.), 28 (figs 11G, H).

Meliturgula scriptifrons ( WALKER, 1871): EARDLEY & URBAN 2010: 41 (cat. Afr. reg.).

* Meliturga (!) minima FRIESE, 1912: MAGRETTI 1906: 10 (Sabarguma).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Massawa, Sabarguma.

Meliturgula scriptifrons is known from the Afrotropical (e.g. Ethiopia and Sudan) and Palaearctic ( Saudi Arabia) regions.