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Mesoplia Lepeletier, 1841
Mesoplia Lepeletier, A. L. M. (1841). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Paris: Roret Vol. 2 680 pp. [457] .
Type species: Mesocheira azurea Lepeletier & Serville, 1825 by monotypy.

Melissa Smith, F. (1854). Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London: British Museum 199-465 pp. [279] .
Type species: Mesocheira azurea Lepeletier & Serville, 1825 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 [570] .

Eumelissa Snelling, R. R. & Brooks, R. W. (1985). A review of the genera of cleptoparasitic bees of the tribe Ericrocini (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co. 369: 1-34 [21] (Proposed as Mesoplia (Eumelissa)) .
Type species: Melissa decorata Smith, 1854 by original designation.

Distribution

Nearctic Region: Mexico (Guanajuato, Sonora), United States of America (Arizona); Neotropical Region: Bolivia (El Beni), Brazil (Bahia, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul [Porto Murtinho], Minas Gerais, Paraíba [João Pessoa], Pará [Alenquer, Belém, Chaves, Itaituba, Santarém, Óbidos], Pernambuco [Caruaru], Piauí, Santa Catarina [Rio Dos Cedros], São Paulo [Batatais, Jundiaí, Vitória Brasil]), Costa Rica (Guanacaste, Puntarenas), Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador (La Libertad), French Guiana (Cayenne), Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Mexico (Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Nicaragua (Managua), Panama (Chiriquí), Paraguay (Alto Paraná), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, Venezuela

References

Snelling, R. R. & Brooks, R. W. (1985). A review of the genera of cleptoparasitic bees of the tribe Ericrocini (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co. 369: 1-34 [19, 21] (Diagnosis, description, comments, phylogeny (as Mesoplia s.str. and M. (Eumelissa)))

Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 17 Jul 2023

Available Species

Mesoplia alboguttata (Ducke, 1905)
Mesoplia azurea (Lepeletier & Serville, 1825)
Mesoplia bifrons (Fabricius, 1804)
Mesoplia chalybaea (Friese, 1912)
Mesoplia decorata (Smith, 1854)
Mesoplia dugesi (Cockerell, 1917)
Mesoplia friesei (Ducke, 1902)
Mesoplia guatemalensis Cockerell, 1912
Mesoplia guedesii (Ducke, 1902)
Mesoplia imperatrix (Friese, 1913)
Mesoplia insignis (Smith, 1879)
Mesoplia ornata (Spinola, 1841)
Mesoplia pilicrus (Friese, 1902)
Mesoplia regalis (Smith, 1854)
Mesoplia rufipes (Perty, 1833)
Mesoplia sapphirina Melo & Rocha-Filho, 2011
Mesoplia simillima Schrottky, 1920