A revision of the Southern African species of Meliturgula Friese (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Panurginae) Author Eardley, Connal text Zootaxa 2009 2261 39 51 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.275230 1ca1d80c-194c-4742-9b07-249c918e84d5 1175-5326 275230 Meliturgula Friese Meliturgula Friese, 1903 : 33 . Type species: Meliturgula braunsi Friese, 1903 , by monotypy; Eardley 1991 : 115 –136. Meliturgula (Meliturgula) Friese : Patiny 1999a : 244 , 248–249. Poecilomelitta Friese, 1913a : 585 . Type species: Poecilomelitta flavida Friese, 1913 , by designation of Sandhouse 1943 . Meliturgula (Poecilomelitta) Friese : Patiny 1999a : 245 , 253–254. Meliturgula (Popovmeliturgula) Patiny, 1999a : 250 , 254. Type species: Meliturgula ornata Popov, 1951 , by original designation. Meliturgula was described by Friese (1903) , Meliturgula braunsi Friese (1903) being the only originally included species. Thereafter several species were described from sub-Saharan Africa. They are: Meliturgula (Poecilomelitta) eardleyana Patiny , Meliturgula (Poecilomelitta) flavida (Friese) , Meliturgula (Poecilomelitta) fulginosa (Friese) , Meliturgula (Meliturgula) haematospila Cockerell , Meliturgula (Poecilomelitta) rozeni Eardley , Meliturgula (Meliturgula) scriptifrons (Walker) , Meliturgula (Popovmeliturgula) senegaliae Patiny , and Meliturgula (Meliturgula) wilmattae Cockerell. Five of these were included in a revision of the southern African Panurginae by Eardley (1991) ( M. eardleyana and M. senegaliae were excluded) and six were included in a key by Patiny (2004) ( M. senegaliae was excluded). One species occurs in Madagascar , namely Meliturgula insularis Benoist ; it is not included in this article.