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Melissodes cajennensis (Lepeletier, 1841)
Macrocera Cajennensis Lepeletier, A. L. M. (1841). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Paris: Roret Vol. 2 680 pp. [94] .
Type data: syntype OUM <M>.
Type locality: French Guiana, Cayenne.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: French Guiana (Cayenne)

References

Baker, D. B. (1994). Type material in the University Museum, Oxford, of bees described by Comte Amédée Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau and Pierre André Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). J. Nat. Hist. 28: 1189-1204 [1198] (Note on type material)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1906). The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 32: 63-116 [102] (Catalog, distribution)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). Names applied to the eucerine bees of North America. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 43: 261-273 [268] (Catalog, distribution)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1928). Bees collected by Nathan Banks in the vicinity of the Panama Canal. Psyche 35 (3): 173-181 [174] (Distribution)
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] (Descriptive note)
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [227] (Taxonomy (as Eucera))
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 [654] (Nomina dubia)
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 [559]
Smith, F. (1854). Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London: British Museum 199-465 pp. [307] (Distribution (as Tetralonia))

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