Amegilla froggatti

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Amegilla froggatti is an Australian bee closely resembling A. preissi. The 2020 revision, which spells its name frogatti, recognised it as a separate species after it had been treated as a form of preissi. The spelling froggatti is used by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

Identification and records

Both sexes have a generally grey appearance. Females have pale marks beside and above the central face plate and a grey hind-leg pollen brush. The facial marks help distinguish them from A. preissi. Males have a round patch of black bristles on the fourth abdominal sternite, rather than the rectangular patch described for preissi.

The name-bearing female came from Brewarrina, New South Wales. The revision also discusses south-eastern Queensland material that had formerly been confused with preissi. Its flower records include Capparis mitchelli, as named in the paper. The revision examined four males and three females, a limited basis for describing the species' wider biology.