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Megachile (Chelostomoides) otomita Cresson, 1878
Megachile otomita 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 [123] .
Type data: lectotype ANSP 2417 <M>.
Subsequent designation: Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 105-134 [126] .
Type locality: Mexico.

Megachile squamosa Friese, H. (1916). Zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica (Hym.). Stett. Entomol. Ztg. 77: 287-350 [340] .
Type data: syntype ZMB <F><M>.
Type locality: Costa Rica, San José; Colombia, Cauca, Popayán.

Megachile knabi Cockerell, T. D. A. (1919). Bees in the collection of the United States Museum.- 3. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 55: 167-221 [215] .
Type data: holotype USNM 21635 <M>.
Type locality: Mexico, Veracruz, Córdoba.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Belize (Corozal), Colombia (Antioquia, Valle del Cauca), Costa Rica (Cartago, Guanacaste, San José), Guatemala (Escuintla), Honduras, Mexico (Chiapas, Jalisco, Morelos, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan)

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, 456] (Distribution, as otomita and as knabi)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1899). Catálogo de las Abejas de México. México: Secretaria de Fomento 3-20 pp. [11] (Distribution)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1932). Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) collected at Chichen Itzá, Yucatan, by the Harvard Expeditions of 1929-1930. Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 27 (1): 9-17 [13] (Key, distribution, synonymy, note, as squamosa)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1937). The bees of Barbados. Entomologist 70: 111-113 [112] (Comparative note)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1949). Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 98: 429-490 [450] (Taxonomy, distribution, note)
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [443]
Friese, H. (1911). Das Tierreich. Apidae I. Megachilinae. Berlin: R. Friedlander und Sohn Vol. 28 440 pp. [258]
Friese, H. (1921). Nachtrag zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stett. Entomol. Ztg. 82: 73-98 [75, 76, 80] (Taxonomy, flower record, nest, parasite record, distribution, as squamosa)
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 [158, 170, 176] (Key, synonymy, distribution, tables)
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)
Mitchell, T. B. (1943). On the classification of neotropical Megachile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 36: 656-671 [664]
Mitchell, T. B. (1956). Notes and descriptions in the megachilid subgenus Chelostomoides (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 32 (3): 129-138 [135, 138] (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 [19] (Taxonomy, note, distribution, flower record, as Chalidocoma)

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