Creightonella

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Creightoniella (misspelling)

Etymology

Named by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell for Dr Frederick Creighton Wellman, who collected the holotypes of Megachile ianthoptera and Megachile mitimia: English Creighton +‎ Latin -ella.

Proper noun

Creightonella f

1. A taxonomic subgenus within the genus Megachile – a subgenus of leafcutter bees.
   • 1908 June, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, “A New Subgenus of African Bees” (pages 146–147), in Richard South, editor, The Entomologist, volume XLI, number 541 (in English), London: West, Newman & Co. · Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 147:

     Another species of Creightonella, differing by the colour of the hair on the tarsi and ventral abdominal segments, &c., has been described by Friese (Zeits. f. Hym. Dipt. 1903, p. 273) as M. sexdentata. Unfortunately this name was used by Robertson in 1895 for an American species, so it will have to be changed. M. mandibulata, Smith, is also perhaps a Creightonella, but this cannot be definitely determined without an examination of the types.

   • 1965 May, Jean Jules Pasteels, Révision des Megachilidae (Hymenoptera Apoidea) de l’Afrique noire (Annalen · Annales – Reeks in-8º · Série in-8º – Zoölogische wetenschappen · Sciences zoologiques; № 137), volume I: Les genres Creightoniella, Chalicodoma et Megachile (s. str.) (in French), Tervuren: Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika · Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, →LCCN, →OCLC
   • 1970 December 30th, Jean Jules Pasteels, “Espèces nouvelles de Megachilidae (Hymenoptera, Apoïdea) d’Afrique Noire: 1. Genres Creightonella Cockerell et Chalicodoma Lepeletier”, in Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines, volume LXXXII, numbers 3–4 (in French), →ISSN, pages 205–232

Hyponyms

• (subgenus): Megachile mitimia – type species

Derived terms

• Creightonella ruda

Further reading

• Creightonella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Creightonella protologue at the Biodiversity Heritage Library