Melissodes (Melissodes) tepaneca Cresson, 1878
Melissodes tepaneca
Cresson, E. T. (1878). Descriptions of new species of North American bees. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 30: 181-221 [211] .
Type data: lectotype ANSP 2326 <F>.
Subsequent designation: Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 1-141 [131] .
Type locality: Mexico, Veracruz.
Melissodes tepaneca aschenborniana
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). Descriptions and records of bees - XLV. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 10: 21-31 [28] .
Type data: holotype AMNH <M>.
Type locality: Guatemala, Gualán.
Melissodes aurescens
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1949). Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 98: 429-490 [462] .
Type data: holotype USNM 58541 <F>.
Type locality: Honduras, Zamorano.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Distrito Federal, Hidalgo, Nuevo León), United States of America; Neotropical Region: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan), Panama
References
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). Names applied to the eucerine bees of North America. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 43: 261-273 [272] (Catalog, distribution (as Melissodes tepaneca aschenborniana))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1928). Bees collected by Nathan Banks in the vicinity of the Panama Canal. Psyche 35 (3): 173-181 [174] (Taxonomy (as Melissodes tepaneca aschenborniana))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1946). New species and subspecies collected in a month in Guatemala. J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 54: 203-206 [206] (Distribution (as Melissodes tepaneca aschenborniana))
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [248] (Catalog (as Eucera tepaneca))
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 [1041, 1045, 1130-1137] (Key, description, note, bionomics, distribution, flower records)
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 [613] (Catalog (as Melissodes tepaneca aschenborniana))
Michener, C. D. (1954). Bees of Panamá. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 104 (1): 1-175 [132] (Notes, distribution, flower records (partim, as Melissodes tepaneca panamensis))
Michener, C. D. (1966). Evidence of cooperative provisioning of cells in Exomalopsis (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 39 (2): 315-317 [315] (Nest (as tepanica [sic]))
Moure, J. S. & Michener, C. D. (1955). A contribution toward the classification of Neotropical Eucerini (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Dusenia 6 (6): 239-331 [294, 329] (Distribution, typographic error (as tepanica))
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