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Melissodes (Melissodes) leprieuri (Blanchard, 1846)
Apis (Melissodes) leprieuri Blanchard, E. (1846). Hyménoptères: Les Mellifères pp. 201-227 in Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. (ed.) Le Règne Animal. Vol. 2. Paris: Fortin, Masson 3rd Edn [216] .
Type data: neotype ANSP <F>.
Subsequent designation: LaBerge, W. E. (1962). Neotype designation for Melissodes leprieuri Blanchard (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Entomol. News 73 (6): 164-165 [164] .
Type locality: Cuba.

Melissodes maura Cresson, E. T. (1865). On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Phila. 4: 1-200 [188] .
Type data: holotype ANSP 2295 <F>.
Type locality: Cuba.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Cuba

References

Ashmead, W. H. (1900). Report upon the Aculeate Hymenoptera of the Islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 2: 207-367 [301] (Catalog, distribution (as maura))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1906). The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 32: 63-116 [81] (Taxonomy (as maura))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). Names applied to the eucerine bees of North America. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 43: 261-273 [270] (Catalog (as Melissodes maura))
Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 1-141 [123] (Listed (as maura))
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [236, 240] (Taxonomy (as Eucera lepieuri and maura))
Friese, H. (1902). Beitrag zur Apidenfauna der grossen Antillen. (Hym). Z. Syst. Hymenopterol. Dipterol. 2: 196-201 [198] (Catalog, distribution (as maura))
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 [1037, 1042, 1104, 1111-1113, 1187] (Key, description, note, distribution, citation)
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 [31] (Type specie)
LaBerge, W. E. (1962). Neotype designation for Melissodes leprieuri Blanchard (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Entomol. News 73 (6): 164-165 [164] (Distribution (as maura))
LaBerge, W. E. (1963). Melissodes fonscolombei Romand, 1841 (Insecta, Hymenoptera); proposed suppression under the plenary powers as a nomem dubium. Z. N. (S.) 862. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 20 (4): 292-293 [293] (Discussion)
Lutz, F. E. & Cockerell, T. D. A. (1920). Notes on distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 491-641 [606] (Catalog (as maura))
Moure, J. S. & Michener, C. D. (1955). A contribution toward the classification of Neotropical Eucerini (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Dusenia 6 (6): 239-331 [293]

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