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Megachile (Sayapis) sayi Cresson, 1878
Megachile sayi 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 [119] .
Type data: lectotype ANSP 2458 <M>.
Subsequent designation: Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 105-134 [129] .
Type locality: USA, Texas.

Distribution

Nearctic Region: Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Hidalgo, Sonora, Zacatecas), United States of America; Neotropical Region: Mexico (Jalisco, Puebla)

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] (List, distribution (as Megachile (Sayapis) inimica sayi))
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 Megachile (Sayapis) inimica sayi))
Mitchell, T. B. (1937). A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic region. Part VII. Taxonomy of the subgenus Sayapis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 63: 175-206, pl. XII-XIII [177, 178, 192-193] (Key, synonymy, taxonomic note, distribution and flower records (as Megachile (Sayapis) inimica var. sayi))

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