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Megachile (Dasymegachile) Mitchell, 1943
Megachile (Dasymegachile) Mitchell, T. B. (1943). On the classification of neotropical Megachile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 36: 656-671 [669] .
Type species: Megachile saulcyi Guérin, 1844 by original designation.

Cressoniela (Chaetochile) Mitchell, T. B. (1980). A generic revision of the megachiline bees of the Western Hemisphere. Raleigh: Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University 1-95 pp. [63] .
Type species: Cressoniella (Chaetochile) golbachi Schwimmer, 1980 by original designation.

Remarks

The name Megachile variabilis Friese, 1920 has been associated with Megachile (Dasymegachile) by Toro (1986: 127) and Durante et al. (2006:796). This might have derived from an old version of Moure's card catalog that erroneously gives this species as having been described from Chile. According to S. Durante (pers. comm.), who has examined the type material, the species does not belong to the Neotropical fauna.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Argentina (Catamarca, Chubut, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Neuquén, Rio Negro, Salta, Santa Cruz, Tucumán), Bolivia (La Paz, Potosí), Chile (Biobío, Cachapoal, Chiloé, Choapa, Concepción, Elqui, Los Andes, Santiago, Valdivia, Valparaíso), Ecuador, Peru (Piura, Puno)

References

Durante, S. P. & Abrahamovich, A. H. (2002). New leafcutting bee species of the subgenus Megachile (Dasymegachile) (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) from Magellanic Forest province, in Patagonia Argentina. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 128 (3): 361-366 [365] (Citation)
Durante, S. P. & Abrahamovich, A. H. (2006). Redescription of Chaetochile as subgenus of Megachile (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 132 (1-2): 103-109 [103, 104-105] (Taxonomy, description, distribution, comparative note (as Megachile (Chaetochile) and M. (Dasymegachile)))
Durante, S. P., Abrahamovich, A. H. & Lucia, M. (2006). El subgénero Megachile (Dasymegachile) Mitchell con especial referencia a las especies argentinas (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Neotrop. Entomol. 35 (6): 791-802 [791, 792, 793] (Taxonomy (as Cressoniella (Chaetochile) and Megachile (Chaetochile)), taxonomy, synonymy, diagnosis, distribution, list of species, key to Argentinean species (as Megachile (Dasymegachile)))
Laroca, S. (1971). Notas sobre a nidificação de Chrysosarus tapytensis Mitchell (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Bol. Univ. Fed. Parana, Zool. 4 (8): 39-44 [43] (Nesting biology (as Dasymegachile))
Toro, H. (1986). Lista preliminar de los apidos chilenos (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Acta Entomol. Chilena 13: 121-132 [127] (List of Chilean species (as Megachile (Dasymegachile)))

Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 07 Apr 2022

Available Species

Megachile (Dasymegachile) alpigena Friese, 1925
Megachile (Dasymegachile) arctos Vachal, 1904
Megachile (Dasymegachile) breviata Vachal, 1909
Megachile (Dasymegachile) chilensis Spinola, 1851
Megachile (Dasymegachile) cinerea Friese, 1905
Megachile (Dasymegachile) coquimbensis Ruiz, 1938
Megachile (Dasymegachile) distinguenda Ruiz, 1940
Megachile (Dasymegachile) fasciatella Friese, 1905
Megachile (Dasymegachile) melanotricha Spinola, 1851
Megachile (Dasymegachile) mendocensis Durante, Abrahamovich & Lucia, 2006
Megachile (Dasymegachile) patagonica Vachal, 1904
Megachile (Dasymegachile) piurensis Cockerell, 1911
Megachile (Dasymegachile) praefica Gribodo, 1895
Megachile (Dasymegachile) santacrucensis Durante, Abrahamovich & Lucia, 2006
Megachile (Dasymegachile) saulcyi Guérin, 1844
Megachile (Dasymegachile) schwimmeri Engel, 2017
Megachile (Dasymegachile) semirufa Sichel, 1867
Megachile (Dasymegachile) tucumana Vachal, 1909
Megachile (Dasymegachile) wagenknechti Ruiz, 1936