APIDAE Apinae Ericrocidini
Mesocheira Lepeletier & Serville, 1825
Mesocheira
Lepeletier, A. L. M. & Serville, J. G. A. (1825). [Articles] pp. 1–344 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 [106] .
Type species: Melecta bicolor Fabricius, 1804
by subsequent designation, see Taschenberg, E. (1883). Die Gattungen der Bienen (Anthophila). Berl. Entomol. Z. 27 (1): 37-100 [72] .
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Argentina (Chaco), Brazil (Amapá [Macapá], Amazonas, Bahia [Itatim], Ceará [Guaramiranga], Maranhão [Formosa Da Serra Negra], Mato Grosso do Sul [Bodoquena, Corumbá, Porto Murtinho], Pará, Pernambuco [Caruaru], Santa Catarina [Três Barras]), Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico (Chiapas, Jalisco, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Puebla), Panama, Paraguay
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 [32] (Diagnosis, description, comments, phylogeny)
Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 17 Jul 2023
Available Species
Mesocheira bicolor (Fabricius, 1804)