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Megachile (Leptorachis) mexicana Cresson, 1878
Megachile mexicana
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 [127] .
Type data: lectotype ANSP 2427 <M> , paralectotype ANSP <F>.
Subsequent designation: Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 105-134 [123] .
Type locality: Mexico.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Mexico (Yucatan), Panama (Coclé, Panamá)
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 (as Megachile (Leptorachis) petulans))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1924). Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921. The bees (II). Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (4) 12 (27): 529-560 [545] (Taxonomy, as mexicana)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1931). Descriptions and records of bees - CXXX. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 8: 537-553 [538] (Comparative note, as mexicana)
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 [14] (Comparative note, as mexicana)
Michener, C. D. (1954). Bees of Panamá. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 104 (1): 5-175 [101] (Distribution, as mexicanum [sic])
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 [230] (Comparative note, as mexicana and as petulans)
Schwarz, H. F. (1934). The solitary bees of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. Am. Mus. Novit. 722: 1-24 [19] (Redescription, distribution (as Megachile mexicanum [sic]))
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