Megachile (Pseudocentron) azteca Cresson, 1878
Megachile azteca
Cresson, E. T. (1878). Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the American Entomological Society. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 7: 61-136 [119] .
Type data: lectotype ANSP 2456 <M>.
Subsequent designation: Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 105-134 [112] .
Type locality: Mexico.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (San José), Mexico (Chiapas, Jalisco, Nayarit, Quintana Roo, Veracruz), Panama
References
Ayala, R., Griswold, T. L. & Yanega, D. (1996). Apoidea (Hymenoptera) pp. 423-464 in Llorente, J., García-Aldrete, A.N. & González- Soriano, E. (ed.) Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de Artrópodos Mexicanos: Hacia una Síntesis de su Conocimiento. Mexico: IBUNAM/ UNAM/ CONABIO [455] (Distribution, as azteca)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1899). Catálogo de las Abejas de México. México: Secretaria de Fomento 3-20 pp. [11] (Taxonomy, distribution (as Megachile azteca))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1905). Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 31: 309-364 [340] (Key)
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [421] (Catalog (as Megachile azteca))
Friese, H. (1911). Das Tierreich. Apidae I. Megachilinae. Berlin: R. Friedlander und Sohn Vol. 28 440 pp. [245] (Taxonomy, as azteca)
Friese, H. (1921). Nachtrag zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stett. Entomol. Ztg. 82: 73-98 [80] (Taxonomy)
Friese, H. (1924). Ueber die Nestzellen der Blattschneiderbiene Megachile azteca Cress. (bei San José de Costa Rica). Z. Wiss. Insektenbiol. 19: 193-194 [193-194] (Nest)
Laroca, S., Schwartz Filho, D. L. & Zanella, F. C. V. (1989). Ninho de Austromegachile habilis e notas sobre a diversidade de Megachile (Apoidea, Megachilidae) em biótopos neotropicais. Acta Biol. Parana. 16 (1-4 [1987]): 93-105 [94] (Cited (as Megachile (Pseudocentron) azteca))
Michener, C. D. (1954). Bees of Panamá. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 104 (1): 5-175 [101] (Distribution)
Mitchell, T. B. (1930). A contribution to the knowledge of neotropical Megachile with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 56: 155-305 [159, 167, 191, 196] (Key, synonymy, distribution records (as Megachile prietana and partim as M. azteca))
Mitchell, T. B. (1943). On the classification of neotropical Megachile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 36: 656-671 [663] (Taxonomy, list (partim, as Megachile (Pseudocentron) azteca))
Zillikens, A. & Steiner, J. (2004). Nest architecture, life cycle and cleptoparasite of the neotropical leaf-cutting bee Megachile (Chrysosarus) pseudanthidioides Moure (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 77 (3): 193-202 [199] (Citation)
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