Tetralonia (Thygatina) fumida (Cockerell)

ENGEL, MICHAEL S & BAKER, DONALD B, 2006, A New Species of Tetralonia (Thygatina) from India, with Notes on the Oriental Fauna (Hymenoptera: Apidae), American Museum Novitates 3527 (1), pp. 1-12 : 7-8

Tetralonia (Thygatina) fumida (Cockerell)

Thygatina fumida Cockerell, 1911: 237 .

Tetralonia (Thygatina) fumida (Cockerell) : Michener, 2000: 716 (although Michener did not explicitly propose the new combination of the epithet fumida with Tetralonia , he can be considered as having done so automatically in his

TABLE 1 Species of Thygatina placement of Thygatina as a subgenus of Tetralonia given that T. fumida is the type species for the former).

LECTOTYPE: A female labeled ‘‘Kandy / Ceylon / February [19]10 / E. Comber’ ’ in the Natural History Museum, London (here designated).

PARALECTOTYPE: A female labeled ‘‘ Ceylon. / Kandy. / B.1. [19]08 / O.S. Wickwar’ ’ in the Natural History Museum, London (here designated). The paralectotype has the mouthparts removed and is accompanied by a note reading, ‘‘I found these tunneling in a bank and storing their nest with pollen. The tunnel went into the bank about 8–10 inches. Kandy. Ceylon. Jan: 08. O.S.W. [O.S. Wickwar].’’