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Megachile (Pseudocentron) binotata Guérin, 1844
Megachile binotata Guérin-Méneville, F. E. (1844). Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux; pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traités de Zoologie. Paris: Baillière, J. B. Vol. 7 576 pp. [450] .
Type data: holotype MCG <F>.
Type locality: Barbados, Saint Thomas.

Megachile flavitarsata Smith, F. (1853). Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London: British Museum 1-198 pp. [183] .
Type data: holotype BMNH 17A.2443 <M>.
Type locality: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Vicent.

Megachile barbadensis Cockerell, T. D. A. (1937). The bees of Barbados. Entomologist 70: 111-113 [111] .
Type data: holotype USNM 55482 <M>.
Type locality: Barbados.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Barbados, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Virgin Islands (USA)

References

Ashmead, W. H. (1900). Report upon the Aculeate Hymenoptera of the Islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 2: 207-367 [213, 214, 302] (Redescription, distribution, catalog (as flavitarsata and binotata))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1905). Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 31: 309-364 [341] (Key, distribution (as flavitarsata))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1937). The bees of Barbados. Entomologist 70: 111-113 [111] (Descriptive note (as binotata))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1938). Bees from St. Vincent, British West Indies. Entomologist 71: 280-283 [280] (Distribution (as barbadensis and as binotata))
Crawford, J. C. (1914). Hymenoptera, superfamilies Apoidea and Chalcidoidea, of the Yale- Dominican Expedition of 1913. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 47: 131-134 [132, 133] (Distribution (as flavitarsata and as binotata))
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [422, 430] (Catalog (as binotata and flavitarsata))
Genaro, J. A. (1998). Distribution and synonymy of some Caribbean bees of the genera Megachile and Coelioxys (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Caribb. J. Sci. 34 (1-2): 151-152 [151, 152] (Synonymy, distribution, descriptive note, note on type material of Megachile barbadensis (partim, as Megachile luctifera))
Guiglia, D. & Pasteels, J. (1961). Aggiunte ed osservazioni all'elenco delle specie di imenotteri descritte da Guérin-Méneville che si trovano nelle collezioni del Museo di Genoa. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 72: 17-30 [20] (Note on type material of Megachile binotata)
Mitchell, T. B. (1943). On the classification of neotropical Megachile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 36: 656-671 [663] (Taxonomy, list (as Megachile barbadensis))
Raw, A. (2002). New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Zootaxa 71: 1-43 [29] (Taxonomy, as Megachile (Pseudocentron) flavitarsata)

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