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Agapostemon (Agapostemon) Guérin-Méneville, 1844
Andrena (Agapostemon) Guérin-Méneville, F. E. (1844). Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux; pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traités de Zoologie. Paris: Baillière, J. B. Vol. 7 576 pp. [448] .
Type species: Apis (Andrena) femoralis Guérin-Menéville, 1844 ( = Agapostemon viridulus Fabricius) by monotypy.

Remarks

Sheffield et al. (2021) have recently proposed taxonomic changes in A. (Agapostemon) which have not been incorporated in the present version.

Distribution

Nearctic Region: Canada (Ontario, Saskatchewan), Mexico (Aguascalientes, Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Querétaro de Arteaga, Sonora, Zacatecas), United States of America (Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas); Neotropical Region: Bahamas, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico (Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo Léon, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Panama (Chiriquí), Puerto Rico

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Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 22 Mar 2022

Available Species

Agapostemon (Agapostemon) aenigma Roberts, 1972
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) alayoi Roberts, 1972
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) centratus (Vachal, 1903)
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) chiriquiensis (Vachal, 1903)
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) cockerelli Crawford, 1901
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) columbi Roberts, 1972
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) cubensis Roberts, 1972
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) cyaneus Roberts, 1972
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) insularis Roberts, 1972
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) jamaicensis Roberts, 1972
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) krugii Wolcott, 1936
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) melliventris Cresson, 1874
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) obscuratus Cresson, 1869
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) ochromops Roberts, 1972
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) poeyi (Lucas, 1857)
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) sapphirinus Roberts, 1972
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) splendens (Lepeletier, 1841)
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) swainsonae Cockerell, 1910
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) texanus Cresson, 1872
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) tyleri Cockerell, 1917
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) viequesensis Cockerell, 1918
Agapostemon (Agapostemon) viridulus (Fabricius, 1793)