Melitoma Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
Melitoma
Lepeletier, A. L. M. & Serville, J. G. A. (1828). [Articles] pp. 345-832 in M. Diderot et al. (ed.) Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes, vol. 10, P. A. Latreille. Paris: Agasse [529] .
Type species: Melitoma euglossoides Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
by monotypy.
Entechnia
Patton, W. H. (1879). Generic arrangement of the bees allied to Melissodes and Anthophora. Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Territ. 5: 471-479 [476] .
Type species: Anthophora taurea Say, 1837
by original designation.
Meliphila
Schrottky, C. (1902). Hymenopteres noveaux de l'Amerique Meridionale. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 7: 309-315 [310] .
Type species: Meliphila ipomoeae Schrottky, 1902
by original designation.
Energoponus
Holmberg, E. L. (1903). Delectus Hymenopterologicus Argentinus [.]. An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. B. Aires 2 (3): 377-468 [406] .
Type species: Energoponus strenuus Holmberg, 1903
by subsequent designation, see Sandhouse, G. A. (1943). The type species of the genera and subgenera of bees. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 92: 519-619 [547] .
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Chihuahua, México, Querétaro de Arteaga, Sonora, Zacatecas), United States of America (Texas); Neotropical Region: Argentina (Buenos Aires, Chaco, Córdoba, Entre Rios, Formosa, Misiones, Santa Fé), Bolivia (Santa Cruz), Brazil (Amapá [Calçoene, Santana], Bahia [Feira De Santana], Ceará [Baturité, Quixadá, Sobral], Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão [Carutapera, Caxias, Codó], Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul [Porto Murtinho], Minas Gerais [Catas Altas, Viçosa], Paraná [Campo Largo, Curitiba, Guaratuba, Palotina], Pará [Anajás, Belém, Santarém], Pernambuco [Caetés, Caruaru, Palmares, Paranatama, Pedra, Venturosa], Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul [Osório, Uruguaiana, Viamão], Santa Catarina [Joinville, São Francisco Do Sul], São Paulo [Campos Do Jordão, Capivari, Rio Claro, São Carlos, São Paulo, São Sebastião, São Vicente], Tocantins [Esperantina]), Colombia, Costa Rica (San José), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico (Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacán, Morelos, Puebla, Veracruz), Panama (Panamá), Paraguay, Peru (Lima), Uruguay (Montevideo)
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