Poecilomelitta ornata Popov, 1951

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, Zootaxa 5541 (3), pp. 251-293 : 290

39. Poecilomelitta ornata Popov, 1951

( Fig. 39a–e )

Poecilomelitta ornata Popov, 1951: 577 , ♂.

Type locality: Jeddah, Makkah Province ( Saudi Arabia).

Published (original) locality: “Dzhedda, Aravia”.

Lectotype (designated here): ♂, N 114, [ Saudi Arabia, Makkah Province, Jeddah, 39°10′N 21°32′E], [February, N.N. Zhehzhurist leg.] // Poecilomelitta ornata Popov, Typ. V. Popov, 1950 [handwritten by V. Popov] // Lectotypus Poecilomelitta ornata Popov, 1951 , desidn. Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2024 <red label> // Meliturgula ornata , ♂, Det. Patiny 2002 // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002597.

Paralectotypes: 2 ♀, the same label as in the lectotype.

Current status. Meliturgula (Popovmeliturgula) ornata ( Popov, 1951) (according to Michener 2007: 293).

Distribution. Saudi Arabia ( Popov 1951).

Figures

FIGURE 39. Poecilomelitta ornata Popov, 1951. Lectotype, male: a—habitus, lateral view and labels; b, c—head, frontal view (b), dorsal view (c); d—metasoma, dorsal view; e—mesosoma, dorsal view; f—pygidial plate, dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 mm.