Xylocopa ustulata SMITH, 1854

I, Eritrea, 2020, A catalogue of the Apidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) of Eritrea, Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (1), pp. 337-363 : 358

Xylocopa ustulata SMITH, 1854

Xylocopa (Ctenoxylocopa) ustulata SMITH, 1854 : MAA 1970: 724 (tax.), 725 (lectotype design.), 727

(biogeogr.), 728 (biol.), 730 (figs 2, 6), 729 (key), 731 (key), 734 (fig. 12), 735 (tax., descr. ♀

♂, Asmara, Ghinda, Keren, Saati), 745 (fig. 26), 747 (fig. 35), 749 (fig. 40). Xylocopa ustulata SMITH, 1854 : EARDLEY 1987: 14 (cat. Afr. Reg. ( Eritrea under Ethiopia)). Xylocopa ustulata SMITH, 1854 : VICIDOMINI 2003: 271 (tax., Keren). Xylocopa (Ctenoxylocopa) ustulata SMITH, 1854 : VICIDOMINI & WHITMAN- MASCHERINI 2003: 115

(Keren (leg. Andreini)). Xylocopa (Ctenoxylocopa) ustulata SMITH, 1854 : VICIDOMINI 2005: 367 (Keren (leg. Andreini)). Xylocopa ustulata SMITH, 1854 : EARDLEY & URBAN 2010: 367 (cat. Afr. Reg.). * Xylocopa hottentota SMITH, 1854 : FRIESE 1909: 92 (biogeogr.), 216 (cat. Afr. Reg.), 217 (key ♂),

219 (key ♀), 232 (tax., descr. ♀ ♂, Eritrea without locality), 465 (cat. Afr. Reg.). Xylocopa (Xylocopa) hottentota SMITH, 1854 : MAIDL 1912: 257 (fig. 5), 270 (tax., Massawa). Xylocopa hottentota SMITH, 1854 : FRIESE 1915: 271 ( Eritrea without locality). * Xylocopa taschenbergi VACHAL, 1898: COCKERELL 1917: 460 (tax., Massawa).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Asmara, Ghinda, Keren, Massawa, Saati.

Xylocopa ustulata is also known from Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan and Madagascar.