Type material (2 specimens). Holotype, female, South Africa, Gauteng, Southern Transvaal, 22.xi.1961, SANC.
Paratype: 1♀. South Africa. Northern Cape: 1♀, 20km NE Kuruman, 16.i.2004, leg. C.D. Eardley, SANC.
Etymology. This species is dedicated to Alain Pauly, Gembloux, who greatly facilitated our taxonomic and systematic work on African halictine bees.
Distribution (Fig. 129). Two records exist from the north and north-eastern region of South Africa (Northern Cape and Gauteng).
Floral visitation. Convolvulus spec. (Convolvulaceae).