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Mesoxaea tachytiformis (Cameron, 1901)
Oxaea tachytiformis Cameron, P. (1901). Description of a new genus and five new species of Aculeate Hymenoptera from the Santa Fé Mountains, New Mexico. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 27: 311-316 [315] .
Type data: holotype BMNH 17A.547 <M>.
Type locality: USA, 'New Mexico, Santa Fé Mountains'.

Protoxaea impunctata Cockerell, T. D. A. (1919). Bees in the collection of the United States Museum.- 3. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 55: 167-221 [178] .
Type data: holotype USNM 20709 <F>.
Type locality: Mexico, Distrito Federal.

Distribution

Nearctic Region: Mexico (Distrito Federal), United States of America (New Mexico); Neotropical Region: Mexico (Colima, Guerrero, Morelos)

References

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1919). Bees in the collection of the United States Museum.- 3. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 55: 167-221 [177] (Taxonomy, note, distribution, as impunctata)
Graf, V. (1966). A posição sistemática de Oxaeinae (Hymenoptera- Apoidea). Cienc. Cult. (S. Paulo) 18 (2): 137-138 [138] (Systematic position,as Protoxaea)
Hurd, P. D., Jr. & Linsley, E. G. (1976). The bee family Oxaeidae with a revision of the North American species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 220: 1-75 [9, 44-47] (Flower record, taxonomy)

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