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Colletes aztekus Cresson, 1868
Colletes azteka Cresson, E. T. (1868). Descriptions of North American bees No. 1. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 12 (1): 165-171 [169] .
Type data: lectotype ANSP 2153 <F>.
Subsequent designation: Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 1-141 [106] .
Type locality: Mexico, Veracruz, Orizaba.

Distribution

Nearctic Region: Mexico (Hidalgo, México, Sinaloa, Sonora); Neotropical Region: Mexico (Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz)

References

Ayala, R., Griswold, T. L. & Yanega, D. (1996). Apoidea (Hymenoptera) pp. 423-464 in Llorente, J., García-Aldrete, A.N. & González- Soriano, E. (ed.) Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de Artrópodos Mexicanos: Hacia una Síntesis de su Conocimiento. Mexico: IBUNAM/ UNAM/ CONABIO [444] (Listed, distribution records (as Colletes aztekus))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1899). Catálogo de las Abejas de México. México: Secretaria de Fomento 3-20 pp. [4] (Taxonomy (as Colletes azteca [sic]))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1905). Tables for the separation of some bees of the genera Coelioxys and Colletes. Psyche 12: 85-90 [85] (Key (as Colletes azteca [sic]))
Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 1-141 [106] (Listed, note on type material (as Colletes azteca [sic]))
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [37] (Taxonomy (as Colletes aztekus))
Moure, J. S. & Urban, D. (2002). Catálogo de Apoidea da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). III. Colletini. Rev. Bras. Zool. 19 (1): 1-30 [4] (Catalog, misinterpretation of status of type material (as Colletes azteka))

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