Eucera (Tetralonia) wfkirbyi Kohl, 1906

Straka, Jakub, Batelka, Jan & Pauly, Alain, 2017, Bees of the Socotra Archipelago (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), their biogeography and association with parasites, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57, pp. 183-219 : 188

Eucera (Tetralonia) wfkirbyi Kohl, 1906

( Figs 17, 18 )

Podalirius antennatus Kirby, 1900: 24 (type locality: Homhil, E. Socotra, 2500 ft); KIRBY (1903): 253, plate xvi, fig. 11 (redescription).

Eucera (Macrocera) W. F. Kirbyi Kohl, 1906: 7 (new combination, replacement name, nec Eucera antennata Fabricius, 1793 ).

Eucera (Macrocera) W. F. Kirbyi Kohl, 1907: 175 (junior homonym and objective synonym).

Eucera (Tetralonia) kirbyi Friese, 1909: 379 (461) (new subgeneric combination, unjustified emendation), syn. nov.

Material examined. Sokotra, 1♀, ii.1899, O. Simony lgt., F. Kohl det.; Sokotra, Ras Shoab, 1♀, i.1899, O. Simony

lgt., F. Kohl det. (all in NHMW).

Remarks. All species names associated with this taxon are missing in the world bee checklist ( ASCHER & PICKERING 2017). The species belongs to the nominotypical subgenus of the genus Tetraloniella Ashmead, 1899 , according to characters presented by MICHENER (2007). However, genus Tetraloniella is synonymized with Tetralonia and placed as a subgenus of Eucera based on molecular phylogeny ( DORCHIN et al. 2017).

Species name Eucera W. F. Kirbyi ( KOHL 1906, 1907) is available as “ wfkirbyi ” according to ICZN article 32.5.2.4.4 ( ICZN 1999), Eucera kirbyi Friese, 1909 being its unjustified emendation and junior objective synonym.

Distribution. Endemic to Socotra. Reported from Homhil ( KIRBY 1900, 1903) and Ras Shoab ( KOHL 1906, 1907).

Figures

Figs 12–18. 12–14 – Anthophora inclyta Walker, 1871, female. 12 – dorsal view; 13 – lateral view; 14 – frons. 15–16 – Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758, worker. 15 – dorsal view; 16 – lateral view. 17–18 – Eucera wfkirbyi Kohl, 1906, female. 17 – dorsal view; 18 – lateral view.