Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 67. (Budapest 1975)

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

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSET NATTONALIS HUNGARICI Tomus 67. Budapest 1975. Becs of the Genus Amegilla Friese írom Korea with a New Species (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae)* •by M. A. LiEFTiNCK, Rhenen Abstract — The subgenera Amegilla FRIRSE and Zonamegilla POPOV of the Amegilla complex, proposed by POPOV ( 1950), are redefined. Descriptions are given of the salient male characters of four species collected in Korea, along with additional material of these from other sources. A. (Zonamegilla) parhypate sp. n. is described. The following synonymies are established: Anthophora tsushimensis CKLL., 1926 = A. (Amegilla) florea (F. SMITH, 1879); Anthophora raldwelli CKLL., 1911 — A. (Zonamegilla) korotonensis (CKLL., 1911); and Anthophora cingulata sen'ahai YASTJMATSTJ, 1935 = A. (Zonamegilla) dulcifera (CKLL., 1926). With 21 figures. Introduction In four earlier publications I have described and illustrated the specific morphological characters of a number of non-parasitic anthophorine bees inhabiting south-east Asia. In a first contribution (LIEFTINCK 1944) detailed descriptions and drawings of the internal male structures were given of several new and already known forms occurring in the Malaysian subregion. These were treated as Anthophora and Hahropoda, respectively, but in a subsequent paper (LIEFTINCK 1956) all species previously attributed to Anthophora were correctly transferred to Amegilla FRIESE. Next to follow was a third and more general survey of the Anthophorini (LIEFTINCK, 1966), on which occasion a new genus, Elaphropoda, was defined to comprise a highly specialized little group of montane bees previously included in Hahropoda. When last dealing with Old World members of the tribe (LIEFTINCK 1974), all remaining Eurasian Hahropoda were critically analysed and their structures illustrated. This leaves us with the large and difficult genus Amegilla, of which a monographic revision is now in course of preparation. Acknowledgements and deposition of material I am much indebted to DR. J. PAPP, of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, for the privilege of studying this interesting small collection and to publish in this journal on the partial results of the Korea expedition. Most of the specimens, including the holotype of A. parhypate sp. n., are deposited in the above museum collection, the permission to retain a few duplicates for the Leiden museum is gratefully acknowledged. I am also thankful to DR. S. F. SAKAOAMI, of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, for his intermediary in obtaining material for this study. Lastly, I wdsh to express my best thanks to those colleagues abroad who have, on several occasions, sent to me on loan the additional specimens necessary for the completion of this and other publications dealing with anthophorine bees. In the following list these personal names are bracketed behind those of the institutions and museum collections where the material was obtained ; the symbols preceding the latter have been used in the text to indicate the ultimate location of the specimens concerned. BISH — B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu (J. L. GRESSITT); BM — British Museum (Nat. Hist.), London (I. H. H. YARROW); BRO — Biosystematics Research Institute, Ottawa (J. R. BARRON); CAS —Science Museum, California Academy of Sciences, San Fran*Zoological Collectings of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Korea, No 25.