Melissodes Latreille, 1829
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Canada (Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan), Mexico (Aguascalientes, Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Querétaro de Arteaga, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Zacatecas), United States of America (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming); Neotropical Region: Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Entre Rios, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Salta, San Juan, Santa Fé, Tucumán), Bahamas, Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz), Brazil (Bahia [Caculé, Ilhéus, Itatim, Jequié, Maracás, Vitória Da Conquista], Ceará [Baturité, Caridade], Espírito Santo [Barra De São Francisco, Colatina, Fundão, Itaguaçu, Santa Leopoldina, Santa Teresa], Goiás [Goiânia], Mato Grosso do Sul [Bonito], Minas Gerais [Alpinópolis, Araxá, Barbacena, Belo Horizonte, Brasópolis, Cássia, Delfinópolis, Guaxupé, Ibiá, Itajubá, Jacuí, Juiz De Fora, Passos, Perdizes, Poços De Caldas, Pratápolis, Sacramento, Santa Bárbara, São Sebastião Do Paraíso, Varginha], Paraná [Antonina, Colombo, Curitiba, Foz Do Iguaçu, Maringá, Morretes, Palotina, Ponta Grossa, São José Dos Pinhais, Tibagi], Paraíba [Santa Luzia], Pará [Belém], Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul [Alegrete, Bagé, Esteio, Osório, Piratini, Planalto, Porto Alegre, Quaraí, São Marcos, Tenente Portela, Viamão], Rio de Janeiro [Duque De Caxias, Itatiaia, Petrópolis, Rio De Janeiro], Roraima [Caracaraí], Santa Catarina [Blumenau, Joinville, Seara], São Paulo [Barueri, Botucatu, Campos Do Jordão, Guarulhos, Itatiba, Jundiaí, Ribeira, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Claro, São Sebastião]), Chile (Arica), Costa Rica (San José), Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador (Guayas), French Guiana (Cayenne), Grenada, Guatemala (Alta Verapaz), Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico (Chiapas, Colima, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan), Panama (Chiriquí, Panamá), Paraguay, Peru (Cajamarca, Cuzco, Huánuco, Lima, Loreto), Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (Montevideo), Virgin Islands (USA)
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