Tilcayo Cats:Amegilla
Original accounts of blue-banded bees, teddy bear bees and their relatives, written from taxonomic revisions and biological research.
This release
The first collection covers the 36 species names treated individually in the 2017 and 2020 Australian revisions, two additional unresolved historical names, and three species described from Papua New Guinea in 2026. Together with the genus introduction, there are 42 original accounts. Three of the species-name accounts explain unresolved identities: they are not three confidently established additional species.
Ten names from the supplied list lead by synonym redirects to the appropriate sourced accounts. A further redirect joins the spellings frogatti and froggatti, whose difference is explained in the article. Redirects are navigation, not extra original articles.
The supplied Wikipedia list contained 241 names when checked, of which 189 had no English Wikipedia destination. It is a starting list, not a validated count of species. This release covers 38 of those names with articles and ten with redirects. 193 seed-list names still need further research or name verification. Three additional articles cover 2026 species absent from that list. Worldwide coverage is incomplete.
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| Article | Focus | Local assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Amegilla | Genus introduction and routes into the collection | C-Class |
| Amegilla adelaidae | Amegilla adelaidae is an Australian bee with pale orange bands of hair across its abdomen. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla aeruginosa | Amegilla aeruginosa is an Australian bee whose upper surface is covered in metallic green or bronze hairs. | C-Class |
| Amegilla albiceps | Amegilla albiceps is an Australian bee in the Asaropoda group of Amegilla. | C-Class |
| Amegilla albiclypeata | Amegilla albiclypeata is an Australian bee described by Remko Leijs in 2020. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla albigenella | Amegilla albigenella is an Australian bee originally named Asaropoda albigena by Rayment in 1931. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla alpha | Amegilla alpha is an Australian bee with orange hair over the upper surface of the abdomen. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla angustissima | Amegilla angustissima is a bee described in 2026 from a female collected on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea. | C-Class |
| Amegilla asserta | Amegilla asserta is a pale blue-banded bee found across much of eastern and south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. | C-Class |
| Amegilla aurantia | Amegilla aurantia is an orange-haired Australian bee described in 2020. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla batleyi | Amegilla batleyi is an Australian bee described in 2020 from a small series of specimens from the Northern Territory. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla berylae | Amegilla berylae is a bee name introduced by Rayment in 1947 as Anthophora berylae. | Stub-Class — unresolved name |
| Amegilla bombiformis | Amegilla bombiformis, often called the teddy bear bee, is a large, orange-brown bee in the genus Amegilla. | C-Class |
| Amegilla calva | Amegilla calva is an Australian bee found across a broad central part of the continent. | C-Class |
| Amegilla chlorocyanea | Amegilla chlorocyanea is a blue-banded bee of southern mainland Australia and Tasmania. | C-Class |
| Amegilla cingulata | Amegilla cingulata is an Australian bee with metallic blue abdominal bands and orange hair on the upper thorax. | C-Class |
| Amegilla crenata | Amegilla crenata is an orange-haired Australian bee described in 2020. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla dawsoni | Amegilla dawsoni, or Dawson's burrowing bee, is a large solitary bee of Western Australia. | B-Class |
| Amegilla epaphrodita | Amegilla epaphrodita is an Australian bee with a striking change from dark to pale hair towards the end of its abdomen. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla flava | Amegilla flava is a bee of southern temperate Australia. | C-Class |
| Amegilla froggatti | Amegilla froggatti is an Australian bee closely resembling A. preissi. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla griseocincta | Amegilla griseocincta is an Australian bee described in 2020 and named for its greyish abdominal hair bands. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla hackeri | Amegilla hackeri is a bee name introduced by Rayment in 1947 for specimens from Mossman, Queensland. | Start-Class — unresolved name |
| Amegilla houstoni | Amegilla houstoni is an Australian bee described by Brooks in 1988. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla incognita | Amegilla incognita is an Australian bee described in 2020 from a single male collected south of Onslow in Western Australia. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla indistincta | Amegilla indistincta is a bee of tropical and subtropical eastern Queensland, formally described in 2017. | C-Class |
| Amegilla karlba | Amegilla karlba is a bee recorded from Arnhem Land, Kakadu and the Kimberley region of northern Australia. | C-Class |
| Amegilla murrayensis | Amegilla murrayensis is a blue-banded bee widespread on mainland Australia. | C-Class |
| Amegilla nitidiventris | Amegilla nitidiventris is an Australian bee described in 2020 from material including specimens collected around Laura in Queensland. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla paeninsulae | Amegilla paeninsulae is a bee recorded from tropical rainforest patches on Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. | C-Class |
| Amegilla preissi | Amegilla preissi is a grey-haired bee of south-western Western Australia. | C-Class |
| Amegilla pulchra | Amegilla pulchra is a pale-banded bee found mainly east of the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales and Queensland. | C-Class |
| Amegilla rhodoscymna | Amegilla rhodoscymna is an Australian bee with reddish abdominal body surfaces in both sexes. | Start-Class |
| Amegilla ruficauda | Amegilla ruficauda is a bee described in 2026 from three females collected in Papua New Guinea. | C-Class |
| Amegilla scoparia | Amegilla scoparia is a bee of central Australia described in 2020. | C-Class |
| Amegilla scymna | Amegilla scymna is a name attached to a female bee from Queensland described by Gribodo in 1894. | Start-Class — unresolved name |
| Amegilla sinewita | Amegilla sinewita is a bee described in 2026 from a female collected on Mount Sinewit, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. | C-Class |
| Amegilla thorogoodi | Amegilla thorogoodi is a bee with brown thoracic hair and mainly blue abdominal hair bands. | C-Class |
| Amegilla viridicingulata | Amegilla viridicingulata is a bee from coastal north-eastern Queensland with green-iridescent abdominal bands. | C-Class |
| Amegilla walkeri | Amegilla walkeri is a blue-banded bee found in tropical parts of the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia. | C-Class |
| Amegilla xylocopoides | Amegilla xylocopoides is an Australian bee whose upper abdomen is entirely covered in black hair. | C-Class |
| Amegilla youngi | Amegilla youngi is an Australian bee described in 2020 from a single female collected at Litchfield in the Northern Territory on 18 February 2006. | Start-Class |
Editorial standard
B-Class is the aim. Shorter C-, Start- and Stub-Class accounts are used where the inspected evidence supports less; a short interim account does not establish that fuller coverage is impossible. Grades are local self-assessments with reasons on discussion pages, not Wikipedia awards or independent approvals.
Museum specimen counts are not population counts. A flower visit is not proof of effective pollination or a specialised diet. Missing males, uncertain locations and disputed names stay visible. No extinction or threat category is inferred from sparse records. Individual species accounts do not inherit unverified claims from the genus or a similar bee.
Sources and rights
The main sources are Leijs, Batley and Hogendoorn (2017), Leijs, Dorey and Hogendoorn (2020) and Wood (2026). All three revisions are published under CC BY 4.0 and are credited in the articles. Additional biological studies are cited where used. The prose is newly composed; source illustrations and supplementary datasets have not been copied. Articles retain the site's stated licence.
The seed list, revision 1373064735 supplied the initial set of names, not article prose. Species counts and scope are checked against specialist literature rather than inherited from that list.