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Megachile (Chelostomoides) abacula Cresson, 1878
Megachile abacula Cresson, E. T. (1878). Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the American Entomological Society. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 7: 61-136 [130] .
Type data: lectotype ANSP 2437 <F> (Snelling (1990:25) gives the USNM collection as the type depository) , paralectotype .
Subsequent designation: Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 105-134 [110] .
Type locality: Mexico.

Megachile (Oligotropus) gualanensis Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). Descriptions and records of bees - XLV. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 10: 21-31 [27] .
Type data: holotype SEMK <F> (Snelling (1990:25) gives the USNM collection as the type depository).
Type locality: Guatemala, Gualán.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (Guanacaste), Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca), Nicaragua

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 [455] (Distribution)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1899). Catálogo de las Abejas de México. México: Secretaria de Fomento 3-20 pp. [11]
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). Descriptions and records of bees - XLV. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 10: 21-31 [28] (Comparative note)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1919). Bees in the collection of the United States Museum.- 3. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 55: 167-221 [215] (Citation, as gualanensis)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1946). New species and subspecies collected in a month in Guatemala. J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 54: 203-206 [206] (Distribution, as gualanensis)
Cockerell, W. P. (1912). Collecting bees at Gualan, Guatemala. Can. Entomol. 44: 277-282 [279, 282] (Nest, parasite record, distribution, as gualanensis)
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [417]
Friese, H. (1911). Das Tierreich. Apidae I. Megachilinae. Berlin: R. Friedlander und Sohn Vol. 28 440 pp. [256]
LaBerge, W. E. (1956). Catalogue of the types in the Snow Entomological Museum. Part I (Hymenoptera). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 38 (7): 501-531 [505] (Citation, as gualanensis)
Mitchell, T. B. (1930). A contribution to the knowledge of neotropical Megachile with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 56: 155-305 [162, 170, 171, 177] (Key, as abacula and as gualanensis)
Mitchell, T. B. (1933). A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic region. Part I. Classification and descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 59: 295-361 [301] (Citation, as abacula and as gualanensis)
Mitchell, T. B. (1943). On the classification of neotropical Megachile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 36: 656-671 [664] (Taxonomy, as abacula and as gualanensis)
Mitchell, T. B. (1956). Notes and descriptions in the megachilid subgenus Chelostomoides (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 32 (3): 129-138 [135, 136] (Key)
Snelling, R. R. (1990). A review of the native North American bees of the genus Chalicodoma (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co. 421: 1-39 [26] (Synonymy, note, distribution, flower record, as Chalidocoma)

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