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Lieftinck, M. A.: Bees of the genus Amegilla Friese from Korea with a new species (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae)

cisco (H. B. LEECH); HÚS — Zoological Institute, Hokkaido University, Sapporo (S. F. SAKAOAMI); MBUD — Zoological Department, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Bud pest (J. PAPP); MC — Universitetes Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen (B. PETERSEN); ML — Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden; MNB — Museum für Naturkunde an der Humboldt Universität, Berlin (E. KÖNIGSMANN); NRS — Naturhistoriska Riskmuseet, Stockholm (S. EREANDSSON); TCM — Tsing-cbao Maa collection, Neibu (Taiwan); UD — Department of Zoology, University of Delhi (V. K. GUPTA). Subgeneric characters POPOV (1950) proposed the subgeneric name Zonamegilla for a considerable number of similarly-looking species generally known so far as the ,,blue-banded bees of the Anthophora zonata-group"

. This section of conspicuously coloured Amegilla has its distribution centre in the Oriental Region, only few of its members having invaded the continent of Australia, where they mix with other sections of Amegilla and the genus Asuropoda CKLL., which themselves are strictly confined to the Australo-Papuan region. A discussion of the latter can be found in the second part of RAYMENT'S ,,Critical Revision" (1947). The subgeneric name Zonamegilla. is here accepted rather for convenience' sake than for any other reason, because it is not possible in every instance to separate its constituents from Amegilla. proper. The type species of the latter is A. quadrifasciata (VILL.), a well-known Mediterranean species which, along with numerous others, stands somewhat apart from a section typified by A. fasciata (FABR.) ( = candens J. P., i.e. one of its synonyms) and other small-sized Eurasian species like A. albigena (LEP.) and A. subcoerulea (LEP). In my forthcoming monograph I hope to demonstrate that these together actually bridge a morphological gap, all of them being more or less intermediate structurally between Amegilla s. str. and Zonamegilla. Nevertheless, it will be shown at the same time that the great majority of tropical Zonamegilla form a homogeneous group of closely interrelated species, which may not only occur side by side with others in one locality, but quite frequently also have developed geographical — mostly insular — subspecies, two circumstances which greatly impede specific recognition.* The present paper deals exclusively with four species of Amegilla from North Korea, collected in 1971 by members of the Second Hungarian Zoological Expeditionin Korea (PAPP & HORVATOVLCH 1972). While two of these bees virtually correspond with Amegilla in the restricted sense, the other two fit Zonamegilla in every respect. Males of the two subgenera may be separated by means of the following combination of characters: A. (Amegilla) FRIESE. — Gonoforceps variously fashioned, usually robust blunt and/or tapered: apex either directed straight back or gradually and evenly incurved, never constricted basally or abruptly hooked inward, though often hollowed out ventrally, surface either bare or microsetiferous and frequently beset with tufts of hair varying in length and position. Gonostylus occasionally present but, if so, then of small size. Sternite 7 variable, the expanded distal portion usually •The general revision of Eurasian Amegilla, will, of course, include also a characterization, with figures of the finer morphological structures, of the type species of Zonamegilla, viz. Apis zonata LINNÉ, 1758. Up to the present time the status of this bee has been misundarstood, a dozen or so of its allies figuring under the name zonata in the existing literature. It is the same species as Anthophora dulcifera: COCKERELL, 1931, Fg. 1, a from Foochow, but not A. dulcifera (COCKERELL) of the original description (1926: 84, from Keelung, China). I have compared the holotype of the latter (CAS), which proved to be identical with A. (Zonamegilla) cingulata senahai (YASUMATSU, 1935: 41 -43, Fig. 3. i and S from Ishigaki I., Ryukyus) syn. n.