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Melissodes mimica Cresson, 1869
Melissodes mimicus Cresson, E. T. (1869). Notes on Cuban Hymenoptera, with descriptions of new species. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 2: 293-298 [298] .
Type data: lectotype ANSP 2322 <M>.
Subsequent designation: Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 1-141 [124] .
Type locality: Cuba.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Cuba, Grenada, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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 [210, 301] (Type locality, catalog, distribution)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1906). The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 32: 63-116 [77, 103] (Key, catalog, distribution)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). Names applied to the eucerine bees of North America. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 43: 261-273 [270]
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1938). Bees from St. Vincent, British West Indies. Entomologist 71: 280-283 [282] (Citation)
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [240] (Taxonomy (as Eucera))
Friese, H. (1902). Beitrag zur Apidenfauna der grossen Antillen. (Hym). Z. Syst. Hymenopterol. Dipterol. 2: 196-201 [198] (Catalog, distribution)
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 [607] (Catalog)

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