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Megachile (Rhyssomegachile) urbana Smith, 1879
Megachile urbana Smith, F. (1879). Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in Collection of the British Museum. London: British Museum 240 pp. [76] .
Type data: lectotype BMNH 17A.2451 <F>.
Subsequent designation: Moure, J. S., Melo, G. A. R. & DalMolin, A. (2007). Megachilini Latreille, 1802 pp. 917-1001 in Moure, J. S., Urban, D. & Melo, G. A. R. (ed.) Catalogue of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region. Curitiba: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia xiv+1058 pp. [992] .
Type locality: Brazil, Pará, Santarém.

Megachile tricosa Cockerell, T. D. A. (1927). Megachilid bees from Bolivia collected by the Mulford Biological Expedition, 1921-22. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 71 (12): 1-22 [21] .
Type data: holotype USNM 29092 <M>.
Type locality: Bolivia, La Paz, Tumupasa.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Bolivia (La Paz), Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso [Sinop, Vera], Pará [Santarém, Óbidos], Rondônia)

References

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1927). Megachilid bees from Bolivia collected by the Mulford Biological Expedition, 1921-22. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 71 (12): 1-22 [17, 21] (Citation)
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [451]
Friese, H. (1911). Das Tierreich. Apidae I. Megachilinae. Berlin: R. Friedlander und Sohn Vol. 28 440 pp. [271]
Gonzalez, V. H., Griswold, T. L. & Engel, M. S. (2018). South American leaf cutter bees (genus Megachile) of the subgenera Rhyssomegachile and Zonomegachile, with two new subgenera (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 425: 1-73 [21, 39] (Species review, partim as Megachile (Aporiochile) tricosa and M. (Rhyssomegachile) urbana)
Raw, A. (2002). New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Zootaxa 71: 1-43 [6] (Taxonomy (as Megachile (Austromegachile) tricosa))
Schrottky, C. (1913). As especies brazileiras do genero Megachile. Rev. Mus. Paul. 9: 134-223 [193] (Original description (translation))
Silveira, F. A., Melo, G. A. R. & Almeida, E. A. B. (2002). Abelhas Brasileiras: Sistemática e Identificação. Belo Horizonte: F. A. Silveira 253 pp. [215] (Listed, distribution (as Megachile urbana))

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