Unravelling <i>Amegilla</i> (<i>Glossamegilla</i>) diversity across the Wallace Line: new species, wing morphometrics, and biogeographic boundaries (Hymenoptera, Apidae).

ABSTRACT: The Indo-Australian Archipelago is a large and biologically complex region that straddles the famous transitionary border between the Indo-Malayan and Australasian biogeographic realms called the Wallace Line. This archipelago contains much of the diversity of Amegilla (Glossamegilla) Brooks, 1988 that was previously revised during the 20^th century by the Dutch entomologist Maurits Lieftinck, but no modern works on the subject have been made. We present a new revision of the subgenus Glossamegilla in the Indo-Australian Archipelago using wing morphometrics to validate existing species concepts, as well as more complete type revision and examination of undetermined material. These efforts result in the new synonymy of A. bouwmani (Lieftinck, 1944), syn. nov. with

SUBMITTER: Carion F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12550509 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature