Megachile marginata Smith 1853

Praz, Christophe, Al-Shahat, Ahmed M. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2021, Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Eutricharaea Thomson in Egypt, with a key to the species and the description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Anthophila Megachilidae, genus Megachile Latreille), Zootaxa 5032 (3), pp. 301-330 : 318

Megachile marginata Smith 1853

Megachile marginata Smith 1853: 151 , ♀, “ Albania ”. Holotype ♀, OUMNH.

Megachile picicornis Morawitz 1877: 55 , ♀ ♂, “Kurgulutschaiskaja” [ Azerbaijan]. Lectotype ♀, by designation of Praz (2017: 8), ZIN. Synonymy in Praz (2017: 9).

Megachile albocincta Pérez 1879: 224 , ♀ ♂, “Montpellier, Marseille” “[ France]”. Preoccupied , not M. albocincta Radowzskowki 1875 . Lectotype ♀, by present designation, MNHN.

Megachile perezi Mocsáry, 1887: 19 . Replacement name for M. albocincta Pérez 1879 . Nomen preoccupied, not M. perezi Lichtenstein 1879 .

Megachile provincialis Pérez 1890: 193 . Replacement name for M. albocincta Pérez 1879 .

Stelis megachiloides Alfken 1942: 215 , ♀ [intersex], “ Irak: Bagdad ”. Holotype intersex, NMPC; paratype intersex, ZMHB. Synonymy in Praz (2017: 9).

Type material: The holotype of M. marginata has been examined. Lectotype ♀ of M. albocincta , designated here, a female in good condition, labeled as follows: 1. “Marseille”. 2. coll. Pérez Mus. Paris [printed]. 3. “ Lectotype M. albocincta des. Baker 1976” ( MNHN). This designation has not been published and is accepted here. Additional material: EGYPT: 1 ♂, Burg (Cairo), 16–20.vi.1956, leg. Sh. M. ( EFC). Distribution : Widely distributed through warm regions of the entire Western Palearctic. Diagnosis : This widely distributed species will be fully characterized in a subsequent work .