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Melissodes (Ecplectica) Holmberg, 1884
Ecplectica Holmberg, E. L. (1884). Viajes al Tandil y a la Tinta, 2nd Parte, Zoologia, Insectos. I. Himenópteros- Hymenoptera. Act. Acad. Nac. Cienc. Córdoba (Rep. Arg.) 5: 117-136 [123] .
Type species: Ecplectica tintinnans Holmberg, 1884 by monotypy.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Entre Rios, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Salta, San Juan, Santa Fé, Tucumán), Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz), Brazil (Bahia [Caculé, Ilhéus, Itatim, Jequié, Maracás, Vitória Da Conquista], Ceará [Baturité, Caridade], Espírito Santo [Barra De São Francisco, Colatina, Fundão, Itaguaçu, Santa Leopoldina, Santa Teresa], Goiás [Goiânia], Mato Grosso do Sul [Bonito], Minas Gerais [Alpinópolis, Araxá, Barbacena, Belo Horizonte, Brasópolis, Cássia, Delfinópolis, Guaxupé, Ibiá, Itajubá, Jacuí, Juiz De Fora, Passos, Perdizes, Poços De Caldas, Pratápolis, Sacramento, Santa Bárbara, São Sebastião Do Paraíso, Varginha], Paraná [Antonina, Colombo, Curitiba, Foz Do Iguaçu, Maringá, Morretes, Palotina, Ponta Grossa, São José Dos Pinhais, Tibagi], Paraíba [Santa Luzia], Pará [Belém], Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul [Alegrete, Bagé, Esteio, Osório, Piratini, Planalto, Porto Alegre, Quaraí, São Marcos, Tenente Portela, Viamão], Rio de Janeiro [Duque De Caxias, Itatiaia, Petrópolis, Rio De Janeiro], Santa Catarina [Blumenau, Joinville, Seara], São Paulo [Barueri, Botucatu, Campos Do Jordão, Guarulhos, Itatiba, Jundiaí, Ribeira, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Claro, São Sebastião]), Chile (Arica), Costa Rica (San José), Dominica, Ecuador (Guayas), Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico (Veracruz), Paraguay, Peru (Cajamarca, Cuzco, Huánuco, Lima, Loreto), Puerto Rico, Uruguay (Montevideo), Virgin Islands (USA)

References

Brèthes, J. (1909). Notas himenopterológicas. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires (3) 19: 219-223 [220] (Descriptive note (as Melissodes))
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [252]
Holmberg, E. L. (1884). Sobre algunos himenópteros de la República Oriental del Uruguay. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 18: 201-228 [203] (Citation)
Holmberg, E. L. (1903). Delectus Hymenopterologicus Argentinus [.]. An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. B. Aires 2 (3): 377-468 [429, 430] (Key)
Holmberg, E. L. (1909). Sobre abejas de Mendoza. Apuntes Hist. Nat. 1 (1): 40 [40] (Note)
Holmberg, E. L. (1921). Apidae Argentinae. Generis Psaenythia Gerstaecker. An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. B. Aires 31: 249-354 [268] (Descriptive note)
LaBerge, W. E. (1956). A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part. I (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 37 (18): 912-1194 [914, 915, 916, 921, 922, 924, 926, 1162-1164] (Phylogeny, key, description, note, species revision)
LaBerge, W. E. (1957). The genera of bees of the tribe Eucerini in North and Central America (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Am. Mus. Novit. 1837: 1-44 [32]
LaBerge, W. E. (1961). A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 42 (5): 283-663 [286, 287, 288, 290, 293, 294] (Table, phylogenetic, key)
Michener, C. D. (1944). Comparative external morphology, phylogeny, and a classification of the bees (Hymenoptera). Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 82 (6): 151-326 [281, 284] (Citation, distribution)
Moure, J. S. & Michener, C. D. (1955). A contribution toward the classification of Neotropical Eucerini (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Dusenia 6 (6): 239-331 [249, 294] (Key, male description, comparative note, distribution)
Sandhouse, G. A. (1943). The type species of the genera and subgenera of bees. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 92: 519-619 [547] (Catalog, type species, synonymy)
Schrottky, C. (1902). Hymenopteres noveaux de l'Amerique Meridionale. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 7: 309-315 [310] (Systematic position)
Urban, D. (1968). As espécies do gênero Melissoptila Holmberg, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 13: 1-94 [22] (Comparative note)
Urban, D. (1973). As espécies sulamericanas do gênero Milissodes [sic] (Latreille, 1829) (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Rev. Bras. Biol. 33 (2): 201-220 [205, 207] (Redescription, redescription)

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

Available Species

Melissodes (Ecplectica) bruneri (Cockerell, 1918)
Melissodes (Ecplectica) ecuadoria Bertoni & Schrottky, 1910
Melissodes (Ecplectica) haitiensis LaBerge, 1961
Melissodes (Ecplectica) nigroaenea (Smith, 1854)
Melissodes (Ecplectica) raphaelis Cockerell, 1896
Melissodes (Ecplectica) sexcincta (Lepeletier, 1841)
Melissodes (Ecplectica) tintinnans (Holmberg, 1884)
Melissodes (Ecplectica) trifasciata Cresson, 1878