Agapostemon (Agapostemon) Guérin-Méneville, 1844
Andrena (Agapostemon)
Guérin-Méneville, F. E. (1844). Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux; pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traités de Zoologie. Paris: Baillière, J. B. Vol. 7 576 pp. [448] .
Type species: Apis (Andrena) femoralis Guérin-Menéville, 1844
( = Agapostemon viridulus Fabricius)
by monotypy.
Remarks
Sheffield et al. (2021) have recently proposed taxonomic changes in A. (Agapostemon) which have not been incorporated in the present version.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Canada (Ontario, Saskatchewan), Mexico (Aguascalientes, Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Querétaro de Arteaga, Sonora, Zacatecas), United States of America (Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas); Neotropical Region: Bahamas, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico (Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo Léon, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Panama (Chiriquí), Puerto Rico
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