APIDAE Megachilinae Megachilini Megachile Megachile (Neochelynia)
Megachile (Neochelynia) chichimeca Cresson, 1878
Megachile chichimeca
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 [130] .
Type data: lectotype ANSP 2434 <F>.
Subsequent designation: Cresson, E. T. (1916). The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 1: 105-134 [115] .
Type locality: Mexico.
Megachile disparipennis
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1917). List of bees collected pp. 189-193 in Cockerell, W. P. Collecting bees in southern Texas. J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 25: 187–193 [192] .
Type data: holotype USNM 23133 <F>.
Type locality: USA, Texas, Point Isabel.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Sonora), United States of America (Texas); Neotropical Region: Mexico (Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan), Panama (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] (Listed, distribution (as Megachile (Neomegachile) aegra and M. (Neomegachile) chichimeca))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1919). Bees in the collection of the United States Museum.- 3. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 55: 167-221 [217] (Citation)
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, 14] (Key, male description, distribution)
Cockerell, W. P. (1917). Collecting bees in southern Texas. J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 25 (3): 187-193 [192] (Flower record, as disparipennis)
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [426]
Friese, H. (1911). Das Tierreich. Apidae I. Megachilinae. Berlin: R. Friedlander und Sohn Vol. 28 440 pp. [257]
Michener, C. D. (1954). Bees of Panamá. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 104 (1): 5-175 [99, 100] (Taxonomy, distribution, flower record, as Neomegachile)
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 [302, 306] (Citation, key, as Neomegachile)
Mitchell, T. B. (1935). A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part II. Morphology of the male sternites and genital armature and the taxonomy of the subgenera Litomegachile, Neomegachile and Cressoniella. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 61: 1-44 [39] (Synonymy, descriptive note, distribution, as M. (Neomegachile) chichimeca)
Mitchell, T. B. (1943). On the classification of neotropical Megachile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 36: 656-671 [662] (Taxonomy, as Neomegachile)
Raw, A. (2002). New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Zootaxa 71: 1-43 [27] (Taxonomy)
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