Amegilla batleyi

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Amegilla batleyi is an Australian bee described in 2020 from a small series of specimens from the Northern Territory. It is named for Michael Batley, who collected the name-bearing male and worked on Australian bee taxonomy.

Specimens and appearance

The holotype was collected north-west of Barkly Roadhouse in May 2008. Other specimens came from south of Tennant Creek in May 1973, where bees were collected on Eucalyptus. The revision examined three males and two females.

Females have grey-white pollen brushes on the hind tibiae and lack black hairs at the front of the second upper abdominal plate. Males have a rectangular patch of pale bristles on the fourth abdominal sternite and a shallow notch on the fifth. These characters distinguish the species in the revision's identification key. The small museum series does not establish its abundance or complete flight season.