Meliturgula arabica 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 : 265-266

14. Meliturgula arabica Popov, 1951

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Meliturgula arabica Popov, 1951: 581 , ♂.

Type locality: Jeddah, Makkah Province ( Saudi Arabia). Published (original) locality: “Dzhedda, Aravia”.

Holotype: ♂, N 115 [ Saudi Arabia, Makkah Province, Jeddah, 39°10′N 21°32′E], [February, N.N. Zhehzhurist leg.] // Meliturgula arabica Popov, Typ. V. Popov, 1950 // Holotypus Meliturgula arabica Popov, 1951 <red label> // Borgatomelissa brevipennis , ♂, Det. Patiny 2002 // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002563.

Current status. Borgatomelissa brevipennis (Walker, 1871) (according to Patiny & Gaspar 2000: 6; Ortiz-Sánchez & Patiny 2019: 1).

Distribution. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Senegal, Sudan, Ethiopia, Oman, Yemen, Eritrea, Somalia, Mauritania, Mali ( Popov 1951; Patiny & Gaspar 2000; Ortiz-Sánchez & Patiny 2019; Monks et al. 2024).

Figures

FIGURE 14. Meliturgula arabica Popov, 1951. Holotype, male: a—habitus, lateral view and labels; b, e—head, dorsal view (b), frontal view (e); c— pygidial plate, dorsal view; d—scutum, dorsal view; f—metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 mm.