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<taxonomicName id="75C2B9C088334FDE8A1174A8E36BD994" ID-CoL="CQ84" LSID="A8515CAE-3D81-5E4D-B35B-FD07DD2A7DD9" authority="(Smith)" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1854" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Amegilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amegilla (Notomegilla) aeruginosa" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="96" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aeruginosa" subGenus="Notomegilla">Amegilla (Notomegilla) aeruginosa (Smith)</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation id="F25FDE292AC9AEA50EA597619376AA05" captionStart="Figure 3–14" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3 - 14. Distribution maps ● indicate museum record, ʘ indicates DNA specimen." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.653.11177.figure3-14" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/121856" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Figs 4</figureCitation>
<figureCitation id="07BDE02B50208A221C187DCDFBB3AEB7" captionStart="Figure 24–37" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 24 - 37. Apical tergites of females, especially T 5. 24 Amegilla aeruginosa 25 Amegilla chlorocyanea 26 Amegilla adelaidae 27 Amegilla alpha 28 Amegilla asserta 29 Amegilla cingulata 30 Amegilla indistincta 31 Amegilla karlba 32 Amegilla murrayensis 33 Amegilla paeninsulae 34 Amegilla pulchra 35 Amegilla thorogoodi 36 Amegilla viridicingulata 37 Amegilla walkeri." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.653.11177.figure24-37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/121864" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">, 24</figureCitation>
<figureCitation id="DF4FBF133509F33B1DA985F87ABDA812" captionStart="Figures 38–50" captionStartId="F10" captionText="Figures 38 - 50. S 7 of males. 38 Amegilla aeruginosa 39 Amegilla chlorocyanea 40 Amegilla adelaidae 41 Amegilla asserta 42 Amegilla cingulata 43 Amegilla indistincta 44 Amegilla karlba 45 Amegilla murrayensis 46 Amegilla paeninsulae 47 Amegilla pulchra 48 Amegilla thorogoodi 49 Amegilla viridicingulata 50 Amegilla walkeri." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.653.11177.figures38-50" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/121865" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">, 38</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName id="AD75B3F5B05ECAFEAC055F5519DC7498" authorityName="Smith" authorityYear="1854" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Anthophora" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Anthophora aeruginosa" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="96" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aeruginosa">Anthophora aeruginosa</taxonomicName>
Smith, 1854, p. 336.
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<taxonomicName id="CDCBCC578D9083968A19B5F3847E4878" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1854" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Amegilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amegilla aeruginosa" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="96" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aeruginosa">Amegilla aeruginosa</taxonomicName>
(Smith) Michener, 1965, p. 216.
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<taxonomicName id="D8948CBD3134F8E8D51CF866B1375346" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1854" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Amegilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amegilla (Notomegilla) aeruginosa" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="96" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aeruginosa" subGenus="Notomegilla">Amegilla (Notomegilla) aeruginosa</taxonomicName>
(Smith) Brooks, 1988, p. 512.
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<taxonomicName id="4E1EA9976602309F053DAE5709E21793" authorityName="Rayment" authorityYear="1944" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Anthophora" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Anthophora kershawi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="96" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kershawi">Anthophora kershawi</taxonomicName>
Rayment, 1944, p. 21,
<emphasis id="73AEB34460BA8FC779F708B5C274A71F" bold="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">n. syn.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="3E10344073489CC1DB176FBB38B27F40" authorityName="Rayment" authorityYear="1944" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Anthophora" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Anthophora sybilae" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="96" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sybilae">Anthophora sybilae</taxonomicName>
Rayment, 1944, p. 22,
<emphasis id="02161D4CB3DED30CC5B38FD09CF248DA" bold="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">n. syn.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="6824993A06191ED236C7C7F52C17E457" baseAuthorityName="Rayment" baseAuthorityYear="1944" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Amegilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amegilla sybilae" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="96" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sybilae">Amegilla sybilae</taxonomicName>
(Rayment) Michener, 1965, p. 217.
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<paragraph id="9E8AB08902B398184D71F8BD827956D0" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">
<taxonomicName id="8B338274CF31FAE0BD10EAF874190DAF" baseAuthorityName="Rayment" baseAuthorityYear="1944" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Amegilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amegilla (Notomegilla) sybilae" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="96" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sybilae" subGenus="Notomegilla">Amegilla (Notomegilla) sybilae</taxonomicName>
(Rayment) Brooks, 1988, p. 512.
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<paragraph id="04C1CA3A0C900290AA08C5FC2E03B34D" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Material examined.</paragraph>
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and
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.
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<paragraph id="81096142530E992F4F35779CC3C02F8D" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Types.</paragraph>
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Lectotype of
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<emphasis id="85E55CE670A586ED97CAFD9D1F20CAC6" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Amegilla aeruginosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: male, BMNH 17B.659. The original description was from one or more male and female syntypes, reportedly collected from Hunter River, Australia. The only specimen found that was considered to be one of the syntypes was a single male bearing no collection information, but two handwritten labels: &quot;
<taxonomicName id="BA312AEC2DC913E2FACB0A9487B9172C" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1854" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Amegilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amegilla aeruginosa" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="96" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aeruginosa">Amegilla aeruginosa</taxonomicName>
Type Sm.&quot; and &quot;
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Type Sm.&quot;. Accordingly this specimen is here designated as the lectotype.
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Holotype (by monotypy) of
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<emphasis id="60C46BA4C61F85CC73BD9D069D6FA5C6" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Anthophora kershawi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: male, Claudie River, Queensland, ANIC 32-033849.
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Syntypes of
<taxonomicName id="A709A9C7C0A2CAC73812BDA525282BDC" baseAuthorityName="Rayment" baseAuthorityYear="1944" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Amegilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Amegilla sybilae" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="96" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sybilae">
<emphasis id="31EB047D62F94E5DA3D635F1A92EE512" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Amegilla sybilae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: male, Macintosh Holding, Queensland, 14 Mar.1940,
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, ANIC 32-034555; female, Magnetic Island, Queensland, 20 Dec. 1939,
<normalizedToken id="C7809533347954BD316B480D4B2C3A1E" originalValue="“cotype”">&quot;cotype&quot;</normalizedToken>
, ANIC 32-034554; female, Edungalba, Queensland, 4 Nov.1939, ANIC 32-033280; female, Litchfield, Daly R., NT, T.G. Campbell, 5/4/1929, ANIC 32-033879.
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<paragraph id="417A20D22D43D9FC5B3A2D1012C61156" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Decision for synonymy.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DC055A73FE842C4D1B818E399D8658DE" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">
Based on examination of the holotype and of
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syntypes, combined with results of DNA analyses of specimens from across its geographical range we conclude that there is evidence for only one species. Uncorrected sequence divergence was found to be 0-2.0%, which is within the limits expected for conspecific individuals (
<bibRefCitation id="0EA09BED8514370DFB78AD1407DFF738" DOI="https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0848" author="Hebert, PDN" pageId="56" pageNumber="135" refId="B27" refString="Hebert, PDN, deWaard, JR, Landry, JF, 2010. DNA barcodes for 1/1000 of the animal kingdom. Biology Letters 6: 359-362. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0848" title="DNA barcodes for 1 / 1000 of the animal kingdom. Biology Letters 6: 359 - 362." url="https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0848" year="2010">Hebert et al. 2010</bibRefCitation>
).
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<paragraph id="2CF5F229DFCD8F590A4902D535E42FFD" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="9D82633CBDED6EC144A4D44BF9958866" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">
Both sexes are easily distinguished from other Australian
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<emphasis id="7632DB24110DE6BEB028EDC0F2545FEC" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Amegilla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the green/bronze metallic pubescence which covers most of the dorsal surface.
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<paragraph id="8C6CEC2810080CEA9C9BB054BC245E7C" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Redescription.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="1D38A5C4FDB9E89C7F5394F1CD148AF0" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">
<emphasis id="B5A23B57674A9BA868501DAF1DE6063B" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Female</emphasis>
: Pine Creek, NT, 10 Jul. 1997, Leg. R. Leijs SAMA 32-002560.
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<paragraph id="8BB299CD447B7BD8E4BCE02C4C1AED2B" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Length 10 mm; forewing length 9 mm.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="DA354F9F9C446D26DA566C0A1F989C2A" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Structure.</emphasis>
Head: clypeus protuberant, in profile 0.4
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width of eye; galea in repose reaching more than half-way between coxa of fore and mid legs; length f1 3
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length f2; IOD 1.4
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OOD; OS 0.6
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OOD.
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<emphasis id="C7434178DC10600086DBAEBDCB69F33A" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Coloration</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Yellow marks on labrum, mandibles, supraclypeal areas and inverted T-shape on clypeus; paraocular areas and scape black.
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<emphasis id="4B5752532B22EA2F9BEE394FA185E0F9" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Pubescence</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Head: labrum and clypeus white, a light yellow hair patch in centre of paraocular area, some black hairs between antennae, near ocelli and vertex, white hair with blue-green metallic iridescence in remaining areas; gena white with metallic blue-green hair. Thorax: scutum with mixed dark and yellowish hair with a metallic blue-green iridescence; pleura pale yellow below wing base, white with metallic blue-green iridescence in other areas; thoracic sterna white with metallic blue-green iridescence; propodeum laterally, dark intermixed longer whitish hair. Legs: fore outer femur and tibia posteriorly with white hair; outer tibia and basitarsus with white hair with metallic blue-green iridescence, rest of tarsus dark; mid legs predominantly dark, white on apex of femur, white with metallic blue-green iridescence on outer surface of tibia and as a basal patch on basitarsus; hind legs predominantly dark, except white on apex of femur and white with metallic blue-green iridescence on outer surface of tibia plus a small basal patch on basitarsus; basitibial streak 0.5
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length of femur. Metasoma: T2-T5: green or bronze with a metallic iridescence; T5 laterally with white hair (Fig.
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); fimbria black.
<emphasis id="F693DD72B3866CB3A048C85E7FC78633" bold="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">
<emphasis id="23DA82E475E00898CF424201272F49D9" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Punctation</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Head: clypeus dull, with close small, shallow punctures, 0.2-1.0 puncture widths apart; labrum with medium, shallow punctures, 0.2-1.0 puncture widths apart, interspaces smooth. Thorax: scutum weakly shining with dense punctures 0.2-1.0 puncture widths apart. Metasoma: T1-T5 shining with open to close, small, shallow punctures 0.5-2.0 puncture widths apart, interspaces transverse pit-reticulate.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="695179D871A8F15503B51C21064483B7" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">
<emphasis id="9EF74439093CD6CF9FDB90FDBDE853AD" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Male</emphasis>
: Pine Creek, NT, 10 July 1997, Leg. R. Leijs SAMA 32-002559.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="555B207448A2D11BFF952BAC82CD0AFF" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Length 10 mm; forewing length 8 mm.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="84DEC92C41317872723C248F1E588ACB" lastPageId="18" lastPageNumber="97" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">
<emphasis id="C9181A8EE156AE88FFA006C825871820" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="96">Structure.</emphasis>
Head: shortest distance between eyes 0.8
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length of eye; clypeus protuberant, in profile 0.6
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width of eye; galea in repose reaching more than halfway between fore and mid coxae; length f1 1.4
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length f2, 0.7
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length scape (excluding basal bulb) and 0.7
<normalizedToken id="A07E9BCB71C3CD414E436D3B6C28A7B7" originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length f10; length f3-10 1.4
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width; IOD 1.8
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OOD; OS 0.9
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OOD. Wings: length of marginal cell 0.8
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distance from apex of marginal cell to wing tip; length of vein M of hind wing 2.5
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length second abscissa of M+Cu; length of jugal lobe about 0.6
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length of vannal lobe. Metasoma: apicomedial emargination
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S5 weak; S7 windows absent, median hair brush very wide at apex and narrowing towards anterior end (Fig.
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).
<emphasis id="2C9E4525CB58BA40A0614CE37208B758" bold="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">
<emphasis id="ECDDF5AF9331199554FC1E6447E18ED9" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">Pubescence</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Head: white on labrum, becoming light yellow towards top of head with some black hairs between antennae, near ocelli and on vertex; ocellocular areas and frons white with blue-green metallic iridescence; gena white with metallic blue-green dense hair. Thorax: scutum black intermixed with white hair with metallic blue-green iridescence; pleura white with metallic blue-green iridescence; thoracic sterna white with metallic blue-green iridescence; propodeum laterally white with metallic blue-green iridescence. Legs: fore outer femur and tibia posteriorly with long white hair; outer tibia and basitarsus with metallic blue-green hair, rest of tarsus dark; mid legs dark, except long white hair posteriorly on femur and tibia, and white hair with metallic blue-green iridescence on apex of femur, outer surface of tibia and posterior edge of basitarsus; hind legs dark, except white with metallic blue-green iridescence on apex of femur and outer surface of tibia. Metasoma: apical hair bands on T1-T6 orange with metallic green iridescence, parts not covered by hair bands bronze with a metallic green iridescence on basal two thirds; T6,T7 brownish-black; S2-S5 dark except apical margins laterally with white hair bands with metallic blue-green iridescence.
<emphasis id="0B9A700D07D69234005618D15EEA2B38" bold="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">
<emphasis id="7962FA9779524F140439967EB0871C3A" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">Punctation</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Head: clypeus punctures 1.0-2.0 puncture widths apart; labrum: punctures 1.0-2.0 puncture widths apart. Thorax: Thorax: scutum somewhat shiny, with close punctures, 0.3-2.0 puncture widths apart. Metasoma: T1-T5 with small, shallow punctures, 0.5-1.5 puncture widths apart.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="D8C00D233C558C9386E6EA9700DF6A1C" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" type="variation">
<paragraph id="3E494FD3994A5314E1D33CDF6D7DCA73" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">Variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D73E20A62F9E9E2D2A6F667AC21E2A64" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">The colour of the metasomal hair is predominantly green for approximately half the specimens and bronze for the remaining half, although intermediate coloration is found in a few individuals.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="89A9281268A216AF1F3F448AC6D3FDB3" lastPageId="19" lastPageNumber="98" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" type="phenology">
<paragraph id="9486D64DAB887C7A7908A2F449FD9C5B" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">Phenology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E050A9864DF9675047D364A02B03BC0B" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">
<table id="BDB7AF71222C243AD09D7D91BCF884B4" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">
<tr id="DCEE284C21ED7366CC1F9C0EA2004D13" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">
<th id="688FD4B11F7C46ED0AD3276EC8EA5041" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Month:</th>
<th id="6A4D19132D1B41EFABD316AF456DBA0A" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Jan</th>
<th id="77ECB25643762B3A5119F88419482402" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Feb</th>
<th id="2A05AC0AAEA45F77AA955798D8E32611" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Mar</th>
<th id="AA322D3C7661E2A024CB9D7381A69491" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Apr</th>
<th id="576368A58BBCF608C028AF2AD040C180" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">May</th>
<th id="756F2D27013F7FF5A60A60EBFBE5ADC6" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Jun</th>
<th id="1CD6D39FD283D1D2507C1D5AFB81578C" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Jul</th>
<th id="DFB7870E003A99F259A75DC0B9DB92AF" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Aug</th>
<th id="D8FB241205B40DE547F9D010DDB0183E" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Sep</th>
<th id="1AB32CB6ECCA9A68EBF547C00ABFBA0F" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Oct</th>
<th id="B0A98D95854EA5E524CAD679C0CCE76C" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Nov</th>
<th id="AC29314F84DE3281208CA9913D93EFD1" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">Dec</th>
</tr>
<tr id="98D9BE9AB29B4973C6FB3A81BEF8F179" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">
<td id="A38523068F0873F46F14178A008F9B87" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">
<emphasis id="134394923852847AD486B56E31309B2E" bold="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="97">No. of records</emphasis>
:
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<td id="635F9229B6E39791F154DBC16B34A100" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">16</td>
<td id="D444D39291CD36D6D8DFE76A703C0FF7" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">19</td>
<td id="2C1A7FE605058D8B518E939AF09BBD34" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">31</td>
<td id="E42989F97208357C86253668F61A7702" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">37</td>
<td id="1586C729D63A9789F149C092E2A1E033" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">67</td>
<td id="69D1DC0F462867FCC2447F6E3F1B251D" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">55</td>
<td id="E9D49CD24C332DE018A60A0175AB0981" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">25</td>
<td id="251CA738AC3CC6ADE9562E822967B4C3" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">39</td>
<td id="B6ECECC1D93BE1EC3D2769961D3D1058" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">58</td>
<td id="9E269B685CF682C3BE256D1E82B6824F" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">60</td>
<td id="36F553CE8D3EAF733610806C18AD4C49" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">126</td>
<td id="E665E3E72D509944B5BD1022B942DD57" colspan="1" pageId="18" pageNumber="97" rowspan="1">70</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="AC4A38297B00E89D12A228AF37134085" pageId="19" pageNumber="98">
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<emphasis id="0888B84B0D2A51E48B112E51E4E7802A" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="98">
<pageBreakToken id="4E1EDA39E30A36EE24B67DDB735B8737" pageId="19" pageNumber="98" start="start">Amegilla</pageBreakToken>
aeruginosa
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was observed throughout the year in the Northern parts of Australia. There were an increase in numbers at the start of the wet season, and a decrease in January and February. This may be due to a slowing down or lack of reproduction in the wettest part of the year. The strong male bias in the first two months of the year (Fig.
<figureCitation id="7A3B393ECCF96B45C4800FF0382354E2" captionStart="Figure 22" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 22. Phenology of A. aeruginosa." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.653.11177.figure22" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/121862" pageId="19" pageNumber="98">22</figureCitation>
) may be a consequence of protandry.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="6851EF89E0ABA7BCF893FEFD8C5AE0DC" pageId="19" pageNumber="98" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="CB81DF1B6B3B65C8FC5C4BF09A8C16B9" pageId="19" pageNumber="98">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="7C6997D34B4655E4B480B68D31B353C2" pageId="19" pageNumber="98">
Widely distributed in the tropics and subtropics, with little overlap with the distribution of
<taxonomicName id="57137A0E0B8110E053AC41D5F4190DCE" baseAuthorityName="Cockerell" baseAuthorityYear="1914" lsidName="A. (Notomegilla) chlorocyanea" pageId="19" pageNumber="98" rank="species" species="chlorocyanea" subGenus="Notomegilla">A. (Notomegilla) chlorocyanea</taxonomicName>
(Fig.
<figureCitation id="5260A3F2F643E1E186B8A6A1798FA87A" captionStart="Figure 3–14" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3 - 14. Distribution maps ● indicate museum record, ʘ indicates DNA specimen." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.653.11177.figure3-14" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/121856" pageId="19" pageNumber="98">4</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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