Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the Islands of Aru and Key. Smith, F. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 1859 3 132 158 6QVXZ urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:229996 Insecta Megachilidae Megachile GBIF,CoL Animalia Uploaded - Megachile lateritia Megachile lateritia Hymenoptera 134 Arthropoda species lateritia  M. nigra, abdomine pube ferruginea vestito, alis fuscis. Female. Length 8 lines. Black; head and thorax very closely and finely punctured; the mandibles with a single blunt tooth at their apex; the anterior margin of the clypeus transverse. Thorax: the wings brown, the posterior pair palest, their base subhyaline. Abdomen clothed with bright brick-red pubescence above and beneath; the basal segment with bright yellow pubescence above.  Hab.  Aru.