New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)
Author
Raw, Anthony
text
Zootaxa
2002
2002-09-26
71
1
1
43
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1
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Subgenus
Moureapis
,
new name
New name for
Pseudocentron (Moureana)
Mitchell 1980
: 56
.
Type
species:
Megachile anthidioides
Radozkowsky 1874
: 147
. Female.
Type
locality: Amazonia,
Brazil
. By original designation. [Monotypic]. Preoccupied by
Moureana
Zajciw 1967
: 527
.
Type
species:
Moureana unicolor
Zajciw 1967
. By original designation.
Megachile (Pseudocentron) anthidioides
Mitchell 1943
: 664
.
Megachile (Moureana)
Michener
et al 1994: 149,
Michener 2000
: 561
.
Megachile (Willinkella) anthidioides
Laroca
et al 1982: 98. Replacement name; preoccupied.
Megachile (Acentrina)
Schlindwein 1995
: 97
& 98.
Acentrina
is a nomem nudum.
In his revision of
Megachile
(1980) Professor Mitchell erected a new subgenus and named it
Moureana
after Padre Jesus Moure of the Universidade Federal do Paraná. However, the name is preoccupied by a genus of
Cerambycidae
of
Zajciw (1967)
for the then undescribed species of
M. unicolor
. The
holotype
of the beetle is in the collection of Sr. Alberto Campos Seabra of Rio de Janeiro.