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Xeromelecta tibialis (Fabricius, 1793)
Nomada tibialis Fabricius, J. C. (1793). Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae: Christian Gottlieb Proft Vol. 2 1-519 pp. [346] .
Type data: holotype ZMUC <M>.
Type locality: [unknown].

Crocisa pantalon Dewitz, H. (1881). Hymenopteren von Portorico. Berl. Entomol. Z. 25: 197-208 [198] .
Type data: holotype ZMB <F>.
Type locality: Puerto Rico.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: 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)
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [318, 321] (Catalog (as Melecta tibialis and Crocisa pantalon))
Fabricius, J. C. (1804). Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Brunsvigae: Reichard 1-439 pp. [387]
Friese, H. (1902). Beitrag zur Apidenfauna der grossen Antillen. (Hym). Z. Syst. Hymenopterol. Dipterol. 2: 196-201 [200] (Catalog, distribution)
Genaro, J. A. & Franz, N. M. (2008). The bees of Greater Puerto Rico (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila). Insecta Mundi 40: 1-24 [9, 11, 14] (Illustration, taxonomy, note and illustration of type specimen of Nomada tibialis, distribution records (as Xeromelecta (Nesomelecta) tibialis))
Hurd, P. D., Jr. (1953). Notes on the melectine bees of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 26 (1): 35-37 [36] (Citation, as pantelon [sic])
Illiger, K. (1806). William Kirby's Familien der bienenartigen Insekten mit Zusätzen, Nachweisungen und Bemerkungen. Mag. Insektenkd. (Illiger) 5: 28-175 [100]
Linsley, E. G. (1943). The genus Melecta in eastern North America and Porto Rico (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae). J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 51: 225-227 [226-227] (New combination, as Melecta (Melectomorpha))
Michener, C. D. (2000). The Bees of the World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 913 pp. [753] (Synonymy (as Xeromelecta (Nesomelecta) tibialis))
Moure, J. S. (2007). Melectini Westwood, 1839 pp. 271-272 in Moure, J. S., Urban, D. & Melo, G. A. R. (ed.) Catalogue of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region. Curitiba: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia xiv+1058 pp. [271] (Catalog (as Xeromelecta (Nesomelecta) pantalon))
Onuferko, T.M., Packer, L. & Genaro, J.A. (2021). Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. Euro. J. Taxon. 754: 1-51 [37] (Species revision, note on type material of Crocisa pantalon, as Brachymelecta tibialis)
Wolcott, G. N. (1948). The insects of Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. P. Rico 32 (2): 749-975 [870] (Distribution, notes, as Melecta (Nesomelecta))

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