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Megachile (Pseudocentron) bidentata (Fabricius, 1775)
Andrena bidentata Fabricius, J. C. (1775). Systema Entomologiae sistens Insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae: Korte 1-832 pp. [377] .
Type data: syntype BMNH [Banks coll.] <M> , syntype ZMK <?> [sex of specimen not indicated].
Type locality: 'in America, nova Hollandia' [probably from the Neotropical region].

Distribution

considered Neotropical [requires confirmation]

References

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1899). Catálogo de las Abejas de México. México: Secretaria de Fomento 3-20 pp. [11] (Taxonomy, as Andrena)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1905). Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 31: 309-364 [339] (Key, note on type locality (as Megachile bidentata))
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [422] (Catalog (as Megachile bidentata))
Fabricius, J. C. (1781). Species Insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adjectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburgi et Kilonii: Carl Ernest Bohn Vol. 1 1-552 pp. [474] (Taxonomy, as Andrena)
Fabricius, J. C. (1787). Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adjectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae: Christian Gottlieb Proft Vol. 1 1-348 pp. [299] (Taxonomy, as Andrena)
Fabricius, J. C. (1793). Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae: Christian Gottlieb Proft Vol. 2 1-519 pp. [313] (Taxonomy, as Andrena)
Fabricius, J. C. (1804). Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Brunsvigae: Reichard 1-439 pp. [381] (Taxonomy, as Anthophora)
Friese, H. (1911). Das Tierreich. Apidae I. Megachilinae. Berlin: R. Friedlander und Sohn Vol. 28 440 pp. [248] (Taxonomy (as Megachile bidentata))
Mitchell, T. B. (1937). A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosaurus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 63: 45-83, pls. V & VI [73] (Taxonomy, comparative note, note on type material (as Megachile (Pseudocentron) bidentata))
Mitchell, T. B. (1943). On the classification of neotropical Megachile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 36: 656-671 [663] (Taxonomy)
Olivier, A. G. (1789). Abeille pp. 1-331 in MM. Diderot & D' Alembert (ed.) Encyclopédie Métodique. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes Vol. 4. Paris: Pankouke 331 pp. [137] (Taxonomy, as Andrena)
Zimsen, E. (1964). The Type Material of J. C. Fabricius. Copenhagen: Munksgaard 656 pp. [422] (Note on type material (as Apis bidentata))

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