Rediviva politissima Melin & Manning & Colville 2024, stat. rev.

Rediviva politissima (Cockerell 1934) stat. rev. Figs 4, 7, 10, 13–14 Notomelitta politissima (Cockerell): Cockerell 1934: 449, female holotype (NHML) Rediviva politissima; Michener 1981: 46–47 (syn. nov. for Notomelitta) Rediviva neliana Cockerell 1931; Steiner and Whitehead 1988: 260–261, 273 (syn. nov.) Diagnosis: Female:. Galea acutely pointed, falcate (Fig. 4E), integument of T1–T2 black (Fig. 14A). Male: Ventral margin of the apical plate of S8 with three shallow emarginations (Fig. 7E), integument of the metasomal terga 1–2 black (Fig. 13C), galea acutely pointed, falcate (Fig. 4F), hairs on median lobes of S7 bicoloured (yellow intermixed with black) (Fig. 7F) or all black. Material examined (778 specimens) Type material. [1] (in NHML): South Africa: Kwa-Zulu Natal Province: HOLOTYPE: ♀: “Natal: / National Park. / 3-15.iii.1932. / J. Ogilvie ”; “ T. D.A. Cockerell / Exp. to Africa / 1931. Pres. by. / Imp. Inst. Ent. / B.M. 1932- 291”; det.: “ Notomelitta / politissima / Ckll TYPE ”; “B. M. TYPE / HYM. /17. a. 1830”; Round red card “ Type ”; det.: “ Rediviva neliana / sub. sp. politissima / V. B. Whitehead X III 86 ”; “ NHMUK 013380766 ” with barcode. Additional material examined. KwaZulu-Natal Province: 1 ♂ / same data as holotype (in NHML) “ Natal: / National Park. / 3-15.iii.1932. / J. Ogilvie ”; “ Rediviva / poltissima (Ckll); “ Det. D. B. Baker 1982”; No NHML accession number; 1 ♀ / “ South Africa / Qwaqwa / The Witches / elev. 2580 m / 17 Feb 1985 / K. Steiner ”; “ Diascia / tugelensis ”; SAM-HYM-B002763; 5 ♀ 1♂ / same data but “elev. 2610 m ”; “ Wahlenbergia / undulata ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “16”; SAM-HYM-B002764; 1 ♀ 1♂ / same data but “elev. 2620 m ”; SAM-HYM-B002765; 1 ♀ / same data but “N. side of Witches / elev. 2580 m / 16 Feb 1985 / K. Steiner ”; “ Diascia / tugelensis ”; SAM-HYM-B002754; 1 ♀ / “ South Afr., Natal / Cathedral Peak / 2829 CC / elev. 1720 m / 18 Feb 1987 / K. Steiner ”; “ Diascia / virgilis ”; SAM-HYM-B002778; 1 ♀ 1♂ / same data but “ Path to Organ Pipes / elev. 2700 m / 6 Feb 1988 ”; “ Wahlenbergia / cuspidata ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “857”; SAM-HYMB002908; 1 ♀ / same data but “elev. 2710 m ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “856”; SAM-HYMB002909; 1 ♂ / same data but “elev. 2720 m ”; SAM-HYM-B002910; 1 ♂ / same data but “elev. 2300 m ”; SAM-HYM-B002903; 1 ♂ / same data but “elev. 2370 m ”; SAM-HYM-B002904; 10 ♂ / same data but “elev. 2450-2460 m ”; SAM-HYM-B002905; 1 ♀ 1♂ / same data but “ 2540 m ”; SAM-HYM-B002906; 2 ♀ 2♂ / same data but “elev. 2580 m ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “858-859”; SAM-HYM-B002907; 1 ♀ / same data but “elev. 1620 m / 18 Feb 1987 ”; “ Buchenroedera / lotonoides ”; SAM-HYM-B002902; 1 ♂ / same data but “ 1710 m / V.B. Whitehead / Wahlenbergia ”; SAM-HYM-B002749; 5 ♀ 14 ♂ / “ Organ Pipe Trail / 2460 m 2829 CC / 6. 2. 1988 / V. B. Whitehead ”; “ Wahlenbergia ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “840–841, 843–847, 849–854”; SAM-HYM-B002916; 3 ♂ / same data but “ 2510 m ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “848”; SAM-HYM-B002917; 3# / same data but “ 2340 m ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “842”; SAM-HYMB002918; 7 ♀ 2 ♂ / “ South Africa / Natal Prov. 2929 CB / Sani Pass Rd / 5 Feb1984 / K. Steiner ”; “ Diascia / cordata ” and “ Diascia / integerrima ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “419, 194–197, 199”; SAM-HYM-B002703; 6 ♀ / same data but “ 6 Feb 1984 ”; “ Diascia / cordata ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “170, 194, 417–418”; SAM-HYM-B002704; 2 ♀ / same data but “elev. 2190 m / 21 Jan 1985 ”; “ Diascia / integerrima ”; SAM-HYM-B002705; 1 ♀ / “ S. Afr., Natal / 2929 AD / Sani Pass / elev. 2270 m / 19 Feb 1996 / K. Steiner ”; “Host plant: / Diascia / cordata ”; SAM-HYM-B010501; 1 ♀ / same data but “ 2720 m / V.B. Whitehead /1 5. 2. 1986 ”; “ Diascia / anastrepta ”; SAM-HYM-B001494; 3 ♂ / same data but “elev. 2010 m / 21 Jan 1985 ”; “ Patrolling / Wahlenbergia / undulata ”; “ Rediviva / neliana Cockerell / det. V. B. Whitehead / 20 XI 1990 ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “444, 1048”; SAM-HYM-B002706; 1 ♀ / same data but “elev. ca. 2400 m ”; SAM-HYM-B002707; 1 ♀ / same data but “ 21 Jan 1985 / elev. 1780 m ”; “ Diascia / cordata ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “165”; SAM-HYM-B002708; 6 ♂ / same data but “elev. 1790 m / 10 Dec 1985 / K. Steiner ”; “ Wahlenbergia / undulata ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “424, 428, 430”; “ Rediviva / neliana Cockerell / det. V. B. Whitehead / 20 XI 1990 ”; Genitalia and hidden sterna dissected and stored in pinned microvial below specimen; SAM-HYM-B002709; 1 ♀ / same data but “elev. 1800 m ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “420”; SAM-HYM-B002710; 1 ♀ / same data but “elev. 1840 m ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “421”; “ Rediviva / neliana Cockerell / det. V.B. Whitehead / 20 XI 1990 ”; SAM-HYM-B002711; 1 ♀ / same data but “ D. cordata / 22 Jan 85 / 2260 m ”; SAM-HYM-B002712; 1 ♀ / same data but “elev. 2450 / D. integerrima ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “160”; SAM-HYM-B002713; 1 ♀ / same data but “elev. 2560 m / 15 Feb 1986 ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “434”; “ Rediviva / neliana Cockerell / det. V.B. Whitehead / 20 XI 1990 ”; SAM-HYM-B002714; 1 ♀ / same data but “ Diascia / anastrepta ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “437”; SAM-HYM-B002715; 3 ♀ / same data but “elev. 2590 m ”; “ Diascia / integerrima ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “435–436”, SAM-HYM-B002716; 1 ♀ / same data but “ 1800 m / 14 XII 86 / V.B. Whitehead / D. cordata ”; SAM-HYM-B002717; 1 ♀ 1 ♂ / same data but “km 20.1 / elev. 1770 m / 14 Dec 1986 / K. Steiner ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “423, 432”; SAM-HYM-B002718; 1 ♀ 1 ♂ / same data but “elev. 1780 m ”; Diascia / cordata ” or “ Wahlenbergia / undulata ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “426”; SAM-HYM-B002719; 1 ♂ / same data but “km 20.4 / elev. 1785 m ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “425”; SAM-HYM-B002720; 1 ♀ 1♂ / same data but “km 19.7 / elev. 1770 m ”; SAM-HYMB002721; 1 ♀ / same data but “km 19.4 / elev. 1750 m ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “422”; SAM-HYM-B002722; 1 ♀ 3 ♂ / same data but “ 16 Feb 1986 / elev. 2290 m ”; “ Diascia / integerrima ” or “ Wahlenbergia / undulata ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “443, 445–446”; “ R. neliana / Cockerell 1931 / det. V.B. Whitehead / Oct 1990 ”; SAM-HYM-B002725; 2 ♂ / same data but “ 16 Feb 1986 / elev. 2700 m ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “441–442”; SAM-HYM-B002728; 1 ♀ 1♂ / same data but “V.B. Whitehead / 21 I 1985 ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “27”; SAM-HYM-B002729; 1 ♀ / same data but “ 1780 m / D. cordata / 21 I 1985 ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “160”; SAM-HYM-B002730; 1 ♀ / same data but “S. of SA Border Post / 21 I 1985 ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “11”; SAM-HYM-B002731; 1 ♀ 2 ♂ / same data but “ 2480 m / D. integerrima ” or males “ Patrolling Wahlenbergia ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “156, 438, 599”; SAM-HYM-B002732; 2 ♂ / same data but “Border post”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “26, 429”; SAM-HYM-B002733; 1 ♀ / same data but “ 2260 m ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “12”; SAM-HYM-B002734; 2 ♀ / same data but “ 2450 m / D. integerrima ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “155, 433”; SAM-HYM-B002735; 1 ♂ / same data but “ 4.6 km E / SA Border / 10 XII 85 / Wahlenbergia ”; “ Rediviva / neliana Cockerell / det. V.B. Whitehead / 20 XI 1990 ”; SAM-HYM-B002737; 2 ♂ / same data but “ 6.4 km S / SA Border ”; “ Rediviva / neliana Cockerell / det. V.B. Whitehead / 20 XI 1990 ”; SAM-HYM-B002738; 2 ♂ / same data but “ 1750 m / 14 XII 86 ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “427, 431”; Genitalia and hidden sterna dissected and stored in pinned microvial below one specimen; “ Rediviva / neliana Ckll / det. V.B. Whitehead / 30 Nov 1987 ”; “ R. neliana / Cockerell 1931 / det. V.B. Whitehead / Oct 1990 ”; SAM-HYM-B002739; 2 ♀ / same data but “ 1870 m / 14 XII 86 ”; “ Rediviva / neliana Cockerell / det. V.B. Whitehead / 20 XI 1990 ”; SAM-HYMB002740; 1 ♀ / same data but “ 1880 m / 14 XII 86 / V.B. Whitehead / Wahlenbergia ”; SAM-HYM-B002741; 3 ♀ same data but “ 2570 m ”; “ Diascia / integerrima ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “157–159”; SAM-HYM-B002742; 2 ♀ / same data but “ 2600 m / 15. 2. 1986 ”; “ Diascia / integerrima ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “161–162”; SAM-HYM-B002743; 2 ♀ / same data but “ 2440 m ”; Diascia / cordata ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “166–167”; SAM-HYM-B002744; 1 ♀ 1♂ / same data but “ 2290 m / 16. 2. 1986 ”; “ Wahlenbergia ” or “ Diascia / integerrima ”; foreleg glued on card labelled individually “447”; “ Rediviva / neliana Cockerell / det. V.B. Whitehead / 20 XI 1990 ”; SAM-HYM-B002745; 6 ♀ 1 ♂ / same data “ 2440 m ”; “ Diascia / integerrima ” or “ Diascia / cordata ”; forelegs glued on card labelled individually “154, 163–164, 171– 173, 439”; “ Rediviva / neliana Cockerell / det. V. B. Whitehead / 20 XI 1990 ” or “ 30 Nov 1987 ”; Genitalia and hidden sterna dissected and stored in pinned microvial below male specimen SAM-HYM-B002746; 1 ♀ / same data but “ 2.2 km W of / SA Border / 2120 m / D. cordata ”; SAM-HYM-B002747; 2 ♀ 13 ♂ / same data but “ 1.9 km W of S.A. / border post, -29.598367, / 29.321573, 2136 m, 29 January / 2020, A. Melin, J.F. Colville, / Host plant Wahlenbergia ” / or “ Diascia ”; 2 ♀ 2 ♂ / same data but “ 2.3 km E of S.A. / border post, -29.608842, / 29.361157, 1890 m, 29 January / 2020, A. Melin, J.F. Colville, / Host plant Wahlenbergia ” / or “ Diascia ”; 1 ♀ / same data but “-29.612854, / 29.368638, 1765 m, 31 January / 2020, A. Melin, J.F. Colville, / Host plant Diascia ”; 1 ♂ / “