Megachile (Creightonella) cognata (SMITH, 1853)

Megachile cognata SMITH, 1853: MAGRETTI 1906: 13 (Adi-Ugri).

Megachile cognata SMITH, 1853: FRIESE 1915: 275 (Eritrea without locality).

Megachile cognata SMITH, 1853: GUIGLIA 1939a: 202 (tax., Keren).

Creightoniella cognata (SMITH, 1853): PASTEELS 1965: 17 (key ♂), 20 (key ♂), 46 (tax., descr. ♀ ♂, tropical Africa), 48 (figs 53-58), 523 (tax.).

Distribution: Adi Ugri, Keren.

Megachile cognata, which is widely distributed in the Afrotropical region, is not recorded from the neighbour countries. The record from Eritrea is not mentioned in FRIESE (1909: 358) and EARDLEY & URBAN (2010: 284).