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Melissodes (Ecplectica) trifasciata Cresson, 1878
Melissodes trifasciata Cresson, E. T. (1878). Descriptions of new species of North American bees. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 30: 181-221 [208] .
Type data: holotype ANSP 2323 <F>.
Type locality: Puerto Rico.

Melissodes insularis Crawford, J. C. (1914). Hymenoptera, superfamilies Apoidea and Chalcidoidea, of the Yale- Dominican Expedition of 1913. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 47: 131-134 [132] .
Type data: holotype USNM 16732 <M>.
Type locality: Dominica.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Dominica, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands (USA)

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 Melissodes trifasciata))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1906). The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 32: 63-116 [87, 104] (Key, catalog, distribution (as Melissodes trifasciata))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1938). Bees from St. Vincent, British West Indies. Entomologist 71: 280-283 [282] (Citation (as Melissodes trifasciata))
Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 1-141 [133] (Note on type specimen of Melissodes trifasciata)
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 [1164-1166, 1187, 1192] (Description, distribution, flower records, figures (as Melissodes (Ecplectica) trifasciata))
LaBerge, W. E. & Moure, J. S. (1962). Type specimens of American Eucerini bees deposited in the British Museum (Hymenoptera- Apoidea). Bol. Univ. Fed. Paraná, Zool. 1 (11): 1-12 [7] (Distribution, synonymy, redescription (partim, as Melissodes (Ecplectica) nigroaenea))
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 [604, 608, 613] (Catalog (as Melissodes trifasciata and insularis))
Moure, J. S. (1960). Notes on the types of the Neotropical bees described by Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Stud. Entomol. (Rio J.) 3 (1-4): 97-160 [117] (Comparative note (as Melissodes trifasciata))
Urban, D. (1973). As espécies sulamericanas do gênero Milissodes [sic] (Latreille, 1829) (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Rev. Bras. Biol. 33 (2): 201-220 [205] (Comparative note (as Melissodes trifasciata and M. insularis))

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