Gronoceras felinum (GERSTAECKER, 1858)

Chalicodoma (Gronoceras) felina (GERSTAECKER, 1858): PASTEELS 1965: 402 (tax.), 517 (key ♂), 519 (key ♂), 527 (tax., descr. ♀ ♂, tropical Africa, Madagascar), 530 (fig. 1240).

Megachile felina GERSTAECKER, 1858: EARDLEY & URBAN 2010: 293 (cat. Afr. reg.).

Megachile (Gronoceras) felina GERSTAECKER, 1858: MADL 2018: 89 (fig. 3), 90 (tax., Eritrea without locality).

* Megachile kerenensis n.sp.: FRIESE 1904: 301 (descr. ♂, Keren).

Megachile kerenensis FRIESE, 1904: MAGRETTI 1906: 15 (Keren).

Megachile (Megachile) kerenensis FRIESE, 1904: FRIESE 1909: 95 (map 6), 96 (tax., biogeogr. as M. guineensis subsp. kerenensis), 325 (cat. Africa), 329 (key ♂), 344 (tax., descr. ♂, Eritrea without locality, Keren), pl. 9 (fig. 3 as M. guineënsis (!) var. kerenensis), 467 (cat. Africa).

Megachile keranensis (!) FRIESE, 1904: STRAND 1912: 141 (tax.).

Megachile kerenensis FRIESE, 1904: STRAND 1914 a: 61 (syn. of M. benguellensis (COCKERELL, 1907)).

Megachile kerenensis FRIESE, 1904: FRIESE 1915: 274 (Eritrea without locality, Keren).

Megachile kerenensis FRIESE, 1904: FRIESE 1921: 1098 (map 4), 1099 (tax., Eritrea (not Ethiopia)).

Megachile kerenensis FRIESE, 1904: FRIESE 1926 (In: BRAUNS): 188 (tax., Eritrea without locality).

Gronoceras kerenensis (FRIESE, 1904): COCKERELL 1935a: 2 (tax.).

Megachile kerenensis FRIESE, 1904: COCKERELL 1937: 190 (tax., Keren).

Megachile kerenensis FRIESE, 1904: GUIGLIA 1939b: 92 (tax., Eritrea without locality).

Megachile felina forma kerenensis FRIESE, 1904: PASTEELS 1965: 517 (key ♂), 519 (key ♀), 527 (syn.), 529 (tax., descr. ♀ ♂, Keren).

Megachile kerenensis FRIESE, 1904: RASMUSSEN & ASCHER 2008: 61 (cat. taxa described by Friese).

Megachile guineensis cerenensis (!) FRIESE, 1926 (!): EARDLEY & URBAN 2010: 283 (cat. Afr. reg.).

Distribution:Keren.

Gronoceras felinum is widely distributed in the Afrotropical region including Malagasy subregion. It is recorded also from Sudan.