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Megachile (Sayapis) Titus, 1906
Gnathocera Provancher, L. (1882). Faune canadienne. Les insectes hyménoptères. Nat. Can. (Que.) 13: 225-242 [232] (junior homonym of Gnathocera Kirby, 1825) .
Type species: Ganthocera cephalica Provancher, 1882 ( = Megachile pugnatus Say) by monotypy.

Ceratias Robertson, C. (1903). Synopsis of Megachilidae and Bombinae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 29: 163-178 [172] (junior homonym of Ceratias Kroyer, 1845) .
Type species: Megachile pugnata Say, 1837 by original designation.

Sayapis Titus, E. S. G. (1906). Some notes on the Provancher Megachilidae. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 7: 149-165 [154] (nom. nov. for Gnathocera Provancher, 1882 and Ceratias Robertson, 1903) .

Distribution

Nearctic Region: Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Hidalgo, Sonora, Zacatecas), United States of America (Texas); Neotropical Region: Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Córdoba, Entre Rios, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquén, Rio Negro, Salta, San Juan, Santa Fé, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán), Bahamas, Bolivia (El Beni, La Paz, Santa Cruz), Brazil (Acre [Senador Guiomard], Amazonas, Bahia [Castro Alves], Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso [Chapada Dos Guimarães], Mato Grosso do Sul [Bodoquena, Bonito, Corumbá, Miranda], Minas Gerais, Paraná [Curitiba, Foz Do Iguaçu], Paraíba, Pará, Rio Grande do Sul [Quaraí, Rosário Do Sul], Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo [Alvinlândia, Batatais, São Paulo]), Chile (Cautín, Elqui), Colombia (Valle del Cauca), Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico (Jalisco, Mexico, Morelos, Puebla, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan), Panama (Panamá), Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela (Nueva Esparta)

References

Laroca, S. (1971). Notas sobre a nidificação de Chrysosarus tapytensis Mitchell (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Bol. Univ. Fed. Parana, Zool. 4 (8): 39-44 [43] (Cited (as Sayapis))
Laroca, S., Schwartz Filho, D. L. & Zanella, F. C. V. (1989). Ninho de Austromegachile habilis e notas sobre a diversidade de Megachile (Apoidea, Megachilidae) em biótopos neotropicais. Acta Biol. Parana. 16 (1-4 [1987]): 93-105 [94] (Cited)
Raw, A. (2006). A new subgenus and three new species of leafcutter bees, Megachile (Austrosarus) (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) from central Brazil. Zootaxa 1228: 25-34 [33] (Comparative note)

Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 07 Apr 2022

Available Species

Megachile (Sayapis) apora Krombein, 1953
Megachile (Sayapis) bernardinensis Strand, 1910
Megachile (Sayapis) bigibbosa Friese, 1908
Megachile (Sayapis) bomplandensis (Durante, 1996)
Megachile (Sayapis) cruziana Mitchel, 1930
Megachile (Sayapis) cylindrica Friese, 1906
Megachile (Sayapis) ferruginosa Mitchell, 1930
Megachile (Sayapis) mendozana Cockerell, 1907
Megachile (Sayapis) obdurata Mitchell, 1930
Megachile (Sayapis) planula Vachal, 1909
Megachile (Sayapis) quadrispinosella Strand, 1910
Megachile (Sayapis) sayi Cresson, 1878
Megachile (Sayapis) squalens Haliday, 1836
Megachile (Sayapis) ypiranguensis Schrottky, 1913
Megachile (Sayapis) zaptlana Cresson, 1878